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Going to build this while I wait to order the 75192...

I was surprised when I stumbled on these at a TRU Express. I was able to use the 15% off clearance coupon. Had to grab all of those Quad Bikes after seeing the going rate on Amazon.

Hello again from the sunshine [emoji295]️ state Florida. It's been a stressful week due to hurricane Irma my family is safe and so are my son lego collection no damages done[emoji1303][emoji1303]it's been a while since I posted so just wanted to share our latest project .my son has been asking for the 2006 ultimate collection of the bat-mobile which is no longer for sale only online and of course it's pricey so we decided to build it instead we search threw his loose extra pieces we have.we did had to order the rare pieces threw brink link and lego.com and here is our end result and it was all under $150.00 Before and after added to the collection

It warms my heart to think the LEGO is now a better investment than Gold once again. ?

Seems as if Lego needs some kind words right about now especially about this set in particular! So... Great job Lego Team ! Triple boxed and a quick delivery!

I don't want one that was made in China.

40260 Halloween Haunt

Bought the 41130 Amusement Park Roller Coaster for $48 for my daughter - on sale at Target and a using combination of gifts cards totaling $25. Can't wait to see the look on her face!

One of my BB-8s that I ordered online from Target had two popped seals. Instead of exchanging it for a new one when (and if) my local stores get replenished any time soon, I decided to crack it open and build it. I don't normally dip into my inventory because I don't display any sets and my kids have entered their dark ages, but I was bored and something about this set gave me an itch to build. I'm glad I did. This set is absolutely fantastic. The build was fun, and the detailed features look great and work very well. This set is gold, Jerry! Gold!

For that amount, it would have paid to fly over from the US and wait on line.

Yardsale $50

And that the two Lego stores I frequent both still have these on their shelves with 2015 seal codes even after discounts, double VIP and free set promos twice.

That's why I jumped on the Build and Learn freebie while I could.

Gonna build this while i wait for the falcon to arrive.

The VIP card on its own is now going for the same RRP as the bleeding set and the auction hasn´t ended. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lego-Millennium-falcon-75192-black-VIP-card-limited-to-100-Leicester-Square-/282653895151?hash=item41cf7c29ef:g:PcgAAOSwl75Zus4R

LEGO should be ashamed of themselves promoting such unscrupulous reselling behavior. These people get two and I can't even get one.

Arrived!!

Really absurde, as this set is a masterpiece... (I am saying that as Ninjago hater...)

A bp member mounted one as well . @Sandwraith

❤️ the quad & price?

I saw that yesterday and didn't post it here. Just more "I heard something from a Lego store employee" without proof. I wouldn't be surprised if it came true. It's common sense. After the initial wave of the herd and SW/ Lego loyalists buy these, this set will start collecting dust and go on sale. People bulked at overspending $200+ on a cool walking / remote control Rogue One AT-ACT toy last XMAS season so we can assume $800 for a Lego set is sorta comparable. Same happened with the Tumbler, many CUUSOO sets, exclusives, etc... even 10179 couldn't even pretty much be given away unless it was on-sale for 25% or better. On a diff note, I find it interesting that many folks (especially on twitter & Facebook) are surprised this set was so hard to buy and is sold-out. It was obvious this was going to happen(based on the history of 10179, the vast # of die hard AFOLs and SW fans and past popular Lego set launches). Everyone should have also foresaw Lego web site getting crushed because (by history) they either have an incompetent IT Infrastructure staff or love the PR of so saying we have so many customers that even our web site and call center can't handle it.

Avoid the Best Buy one, it was designed by Harrison Ford.

So @exciter1 should be able to buy them on demand for the next 3 years then.

i can't think of anything in the universe that would have been more predictably hyped than a new much improved UCS MF, the price of which is lower than even the lowest selling 10179. think of the thousands of people who always wanted a 10179 but it was out of their reach, a few thousand dollars. now you have this new improved one for $800!!!- its a bargain to a star wars lego fan. it is hardly surprising the response its received. we're already on page 141 of this thread. go back to the mindnumbing idle e-chit chat during the F5 hours lead up til sale time and you'll get a sense of the depth of interest in this set. my prediction is 75192 stays out of stock and unorderable until mid February. now that the horde has a whiff of the money this can bring in and people start posting how much they are selling them for, that will further fuel insatiable demand. when people can sell their spot in line for $200, it will remain difficult to obtain even when there is stock.

70751 Temple of Airjitzu now retired at US SAH. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Temple-of-Airjitzu-70751 People seemed to miss that with all the UCS falcon shenanigans.

Brothers in arms... not mine though.

They probably meant that this is their last chance to sell any.

This is what we did with the Ribba frame from ikea. Bought full matt sheets from Michaels the craft junk store and cut them to replace the ones it came with. Hot glued (yup) 2x4 bricks to it. Fits 54 figures nicely.

I'll also say this: logs of people on this thread were mocking the event on the run up, saying people are "sheep", they will get mugged, or that the will start fights... the truth was London in the early hours was very civilised. everyone in hebqueue was civilised, maxing friends, holding each other's places in line while nipping out to get some food. Even in store there was no panic, no jostling or fighting. We were tired by 2am. But it was really great. i think the "doom-Monges" were just miffed about not being there! made me proud to be a Londoner and a Lego fan. As many of you have said, quite rightly, we do love to queue! I thought that might have been the case. I think if the boxes were pre-signed the people would have just take them and gone. But somehow the idea started.

Do I sense a conflict? As master yoda says...

The numbers are taken off the VIP card or queue number. The inscriptions including the numbers were specified by the buyers. Buyers used their VIP card no or entry card no to designate that, But someone could have wrote the lords prayer and the the two dudes would have written that on the box verbatim. Hence, someone could have asked them to write 001.

Me too. I'm sure this was a very deliberate decision not to let China do any of the first batch. I'm guessing China had about as much info as the rest of us. I have a feeling after the Sept 1 announcement, they ramped up production in China. We know they can't get them out by 1 Oct. They've admitted that. But I think we'll see a steady stream of them for awhile.

I am curious how fast LEGO can crank up the next batch of these now that the China factory is up and running

Were you asleep last year when they were 50% at Disney?

The way you keep repeating this "fictionally forced connection", it sounds like this being some kind of "LEGO commandment". The new project is introducing the new idea of DUPLO now being VERY MUCH for adults. So, yes, you are right on the one hand: Duplo HAS never been for adults before (past). But with "LEGO PLUS+" it WOULD/WILL be for adults NOW (present/future). To come up with something new that might not care at all about what has been once is called innovation to my knowledge. Meaning: it does not matter at all if Duplo "has never" been for adults. If the new idea is good and helps impaired and/or senior citizens - I don't see any problem in saying: Duplo IS for adults NOW. You just have to get rid of your mental connection between Duplo SETS and Duplo BRICKS. There might have been people saying: "Teflon is for Space Shuttles only and has NEVER been for non-stick pans". And then somebody came and said: Now it IS for pans, too. Where's the problem?

Well, my call to Customer Service paid off (I was frustrated, but very nice to the guy, I figured his day was going pretty bad regardless). After receiving the cancellation email yesterday morning due to payment error, Brian in CS was very helpful and said the system was crazy all morning and he was sure it was an error on their part (it was - I used the same shipping address and credit card I have used for years). Went into "In Warehouse" status yesterday afternoon and just received a shipment email with tracking (fingers crossed). New plan: finish selling last three Gingerbread Houses on FBA to cover full cost of MiLF. Sold one already for $219.

10179 inner frame is solid, designed to carry 20 pounds. many of us assume 75192 would follow it's lead in that area and i'm glad it's true. https://brickset.com/article/30631 Bags #1 Construction begins with the internal chassis upon which everything will be connected to. It's robustly built using studded Technic beams and plates so is very rigid as a result. Most of today's sets use colour coding of parts to make it easier to find them in the pile and also easier to see them in the instruction steps, and this set does just that: different sized beams are different colours, certain sized plates are tan, others are grey, and so on. The result is a bit of an eyesore but it'll all be covered up so it doesn't matter. I knew that designer Hans stated that he based this chassis design on that in the original UCS Falcon but I didn't realise until looking at the instructions now just how similar they are: The build time for this section was about 75 minutes. It's fairly straightforward, thanks to the colour coding, but you will want to ensure you have every Technic pin in exactly the right hole otherwise you're likely to run into problems later. Bags #9 Now we turn our attention to the top of the mandibles, which are built primarily from plates but with arches used to form the circular holes in the top. The details seen through them were added in bags #8.

Never ever label a lot with older Winter Village sets and a 10197 as "Winter crap" .. grrrrr

Bag one complete. This is gonna take me a loooooong time to build. I'm lucky if I get through one numbered bag a night.

After driving 600 miles back and forth, and getting to the lego store at 6.05 in the Morning to get the 7th ticket out of 8, I present you the FIRST 75192 Star Wars UCS Millenium Falcon, that makes it back to the land were it was made... Monterrey, México ?? !!!

It´s all part of the drama/hype.The more they get this set talked about, the more they will sell. Imagine how short this thread would be if everyone smoothly ordered or got theirs in store - they´d all be building right now. Look how quiet the Xmas train station thread is, for example.

My haul from last night at LS!

People make a big deal about Max Profit. It can be ignored. The reason it stays here is because 500+ users follow this thread. If I remove it from here, then I have to tell hundreds of people to go elsewhere when this is the deals thread. It's not going anywhere, so ignore it and then don't complain about it. Those that are complaining about it are making more of a mess of this thread than Max Profit is. The script runs every 3 hours. Removes all previous posts and just leaves the latest and greatest (1 single post). For each of those that complain, there are plenty of others that send a PM, email, Facebook message that say..."thanks" Max Profit will be improving and also be integrated into other features that may eventually replace this part here. So have patience. Maybe one day some of you will find use for him, but for now, do what works for you, ignore him and have a happy day. This is the end. If you want to PM me about it fine, but don't waste anymore time here in this thread.

For those of us that are fans of the other VIP set to come out today...

I'm actually very pleased that I couldn't buy one. I tried multiple times, but I will just wait for Double VIP points or discounts form Amazon or some other retailer. It wasn't like I was going to spend three weeks building the damn thing anyway.

The bonus points offers are dwindling, but the Sweeps are strong for me. I'm racking in $10-$15 a week at a minimum. They've increased the frequency of the Bonus sweeps, with $1, $2, $3, $4 and $5 sweeps happening several times a day, 7 days a week, both in XTRA as well as in the Win It! app. I'm not winning those very often, but still, all put together, my average daily winnings per account are in the $1-$2 range, enough to get me a free 20% discounted $20 set once per week, or if I save up some points, multiple sets (or more expensive sets) once every two weeks, where I combine my Sweeps points with coupons ($5 off $35, $5 off $20, $10 off $25 or $7 off $35, depending on what they are willing to give me - granted, the better ones are very rare for me, $5 off $35 is the best I can typically do). I think (I don't have my inventory sheet with me) I have collected over $2.5k MSRP in sets the last 6 months, and I spent maybe $250 out of pocket.

No one gives a toss, even at Brand Stores you can find plenty of boxes with lots of wear scuffs and other type of damages.

Kasseby has more depth than Ribba. I know I had to manipulate the figs a bit especially if they are a bit larger like the tails of the Shark Suit guy or figs with tails. Kasseby door would make swapping out figs much easier. Ribba can still technically hold more figs overall if you want to go for count over all. See this vid on how the guy fit 135 figs into Ribba 50x50cm.