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Working on my city Elevation. Had to walk away for a while.

Brickpicker Raffle 2018 Sneak Peek

What a sausage fest.

First off, Irma sucks. Things are pretty boring with no power, so I've been building some sets. The Batmobile was from a CL lot I got last week, that I already built a Brick Bounty from. The Technic BMW is from my "new sets to build" pile. And the Simpsons is a used one I picked up last year that I hadn't gotten around to yet, only missing one piece.

Sheeps ready to be trimmed.

what you mean that picture or brickpicker in general

This fellow seemed to have missed out.

I'm gonna ask one of my Lego store employees to sign my box.

Be brave you plucky Londoners for this inevitable Leicester Square Lego Moped crimewave tonight! It's going to be like something out of the Purge.

I sold enough of those stupid toys as a 9th grade student in high school to purchase my 1st car! Beats working fast food any day. My mom held all hers and is still donating them to local police stations and hospitals when they need.

Today my computer was giving me some trouble with getting video off of my camera to my computer. So while the files were transferring, I built this old Blacktron 2 set: The Aerial Intruder! It was a nice break from doing the newest Star Wars sets that I've been making my way through for my YouTube channel. There's something about the sets from the 80's/90's space themes that are just awesome (for me).

Good point I've already showed to the RBM those listings with "Signed Boxes" he wasnt impressed on the other hand he was pissed on the Lego marketing team who was responsible for handling this event. Lots of misscomunication but I wont dive into details. Anyway this thing with modular cinema was a PR ball in the park with tongue in cheek. And you swallowed bite big time @Val-E You wanted me to ask him for that. "Please throw the acid on me but not on the box, i have already many bids on my auction! Spare the Box I beg you!

I'm just curious about the schedule myself. For example, what time will the fighting start in the queue, then how long after midnight will it be before the moped acid attackers turn up to claim their bounty? I'm pretty much just gonna sit at home with a beer and buy a drone instead and watch your updates

As long as it says : the man who never sold .

I like to do this at cinemas for unpopular movies

return? You need the capital back or something? Just a little hint on why to hold.

Which one of those blokes is @TabbyBoy?

I was right there with you. We had just moved, and hadn't had a chance to unbox and rebuild all our sets, so Irma became a lego building party for me, the wife, and the kids. 30 sets pieced back together. As a reward, we unboxed and built Tie Striker, Droid Escape Pod, Clone Turbo Tank, and I started the Saturn V (but didn't finish yet, as I had to clean up the fallen trees in the yard :()

People already queuing up at Leicester Sq. Queue already has about 15 people. At this rate unless you get there by early afternoon forget about it. And just to get a cheap display case and two signatures. It's also going to be blustery, cold and possibly raining later this evening. Good luck to them.

^ time machine works both ways I see

Wife built this little guy.

Let Jeff and I know if any of you have video of the riot at the LEGO store after they run out of Falcons. We will post it on the site.

It's 35lbs, not like you are dragging a bag of cement through the streets. If you can't lift/carry 35lbs, you still have a few hours to do some bicep curls and get swol.

I'm busy working out how early to get up yet still find that the set was available 30 minutes earlier and is now OOS.

Ask Ed Mack to sign it. Will be priceless!!

Glad I at least got to squeeze a little juice from this before everyone caught on. I still have a feeling we night see another 40139 mega jump perhaps either during the holiday shopping rush or something. Can we do this again next year for 40223 Snow Globe?

So you are there then? :-) What number are you? First 100 are going to be happy since the display case is something special. Will have a unique serial with prefix 1138 paying homage to Lucas film and the next digit will be 0 to 100.

That reminds me, if you're on a long-haul flight with a mogwai when should you stop feeding them? Asking for a friend.

Don´t torture the poor guy, he´s missed two Windows already - if he has any worse luck he´ll catch Windows 8.

How many of these do you have? They are 0 sellers away from 5xRRP.... https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Bionicle-Ekimu-Maker-71312/dp/B01I4PB498/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1505319106&sr=1-1&keywords=lego+71312

Yeah, it´s us. We were only 21 when that queue started, though.

According to this rare picture of our "gems" those old farts in the middle might both @TabbyBoy and @Val-E

How many of those plucky MILF lovers are carrying 700 GBP in cash on them?

Follow on to yesterday, here's what was inside all those bags of parts:

You make zero sense. Right now, people have been cleaning house in Walmart for a while. The Walmart clearance thread was the most popular thread for a while. Then it was the anticipation of the new Falcon. Online deals have been so so. Amazon leads the way in many cases with others matching, or Amazon coming down to match. Max Profit posts an update once every three hours. If nothing happens in between those three hours, then what can I do. All that bot does is update anything that has dropped in the past couple of hours, whats the big deal about that. If I stopped Max, then I would have just as many people complain that it is gone. Ignore his posts and your life will be forever better. Maybe the updated Max Profit posts I release in a little bit will be more worth your time. I will continue to put them out there. If people find help from them then good, if you don't like them there is a way to ignore them. So everyone should be happy. What are we really missing out there? Things are different today than they were two years ago.

Can't say that deals are abundant right now, but it will pick-up. On that note, some of the clearance threads have been very active this year.

Yeah, I think that web has identified the source for all this madness. Below is the original FB post from 4th September that seems to have started the run by linking the set to the Amazon affiliate buy page. Amazon prices moved upwards from the 5th, so they are clearly related. It has gone viral with over 1.5 million views and 10k comments (brickpicker even gets mentioned as well as lots of hate for resellers and talk about Lego firing people and charging too much for this set). https://www.facebook.com/SmartSchoolHouse/?hc_ref=ARRUlp7AAJiY_r6UMn3DmKW4ZnsFzkjDbgOtLBD4fAtv-rIvxqx3bF3CDC8XgVk2T70&fref=nf I guess once the fuss over the post dies down and people move on to the next thing, prices will fall back to 50/60 USD. Sales rank has already slipped on Amazon. Good business for those who sold in the right window, though.

Finished Old Fishing Store, and it went perfectly on the mantle:

Finally got ahold of my most wanted set, now I can get to work on my Halloween display with HH, VC, all Scooby sets, and the Simpsons house going to make a cul du sac with them full of trick or treaters (every minifig I have that looks like a costume) PS: if you need two Chima clocks still in box, I've got a deal for you.

Wookie lives matter

That's harassment.

Reminds of that story where a few people did a social experiment and just started lining up outside some random door. Slowly but surely random passerby's just started queuing, even though they had no idea what for.

So is your profile pic your first victim?

Picked up from here: I've talked about my Halloween Town, Fairgrounds, and Winter Village ideas for years, but I've never fully implemented them. We take a couple sets out at the right time of the year, but don't actually have a full on display set up. I decided it was time to get my displays idea restarted. So I'm stocking up on plates and tiles, and other parts I need. I've had a few ideas on how to build actual displays, and I finally want to start attacking these ideas. I'm way behind schedule, though. I thought I'd need 4-6 months to be able to get ahead of the game (e.g., if I started working on the Winter Village stuff now, I'd be ready for December). But reality is, I need to be about 9 months ahead of schedule. So a lot of what I'm buying right now is for the Winter Village, but it probably won't be on display until December 2018. I'm primarily trying to build a small stream (with a bridge) and a lake. As soon as I get ever a part of what I'm trying to do built, I'll post it. I'm also trying to build the Celebration 2017 set: Almost done getting all the parts for that.

IMO, this has been a banner year for deals.

Pet Shop built and added to the collection. Town Hall up next.