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Had time to finish it up today. Looks good and will display it with destiny's bounty at the warehouse

You sometimes get that of you bang 2 orders through close together when there's freebies. I tend to wait until 1 order is in warehouse before placing another.

$50 local pickup. Appears to be built once and display only. I actually like this version more than the UCS one. While the proportions are still abit off, it’s not bad.

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Hello All - back with another build that actually even really applies to this site. Needed quite a bit of space-like sets to get all the LBG pieces needed for this build. Abstract in nature, but just a tribute to all things ealing with Lego Greebling. Used a variety of techniques portrayed by others but also many that I created myself. Enjoy!

Had a bunch of points, so I went for another Classic Batcave + promo. Come on folks, make them disappear.

After building the UCS falcon I thought to take a step back and build something with alot less pieces. I had sold the taj Mahal when the new one was announced basically to come out ahead gaining instructions and the box. For the first 10 bags I regretted my decision as it extremely monotonous.

The Ferrari set is a real gem with 3 wonderfuly executed designs.

http://www.collectibleminifigs.com/series.asp?s=18 Don't know how long that will last, but holy cow. Those are great. The translucent balloon animals for the clown are particularly brilliant. Sent from my PH-1 using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

It's been 4 days since Dolores O'Riordan died & I'm still gutted. RIP Dolores.

This is one that I went into pretty heavily (especially when they went high discount) - It just has too many ways to pull out a decent profit.

I ordered another to get the 60th package Not a large set, easy to store. I don't mind if it sits and gathers dust.

Saturn V not available direct from Amazon here in U.K. Available through sellers only. Ok the high street, only recently has it been more widely available , hence, no discounts to write home about yet(or at least I am aware)

PS - I heard somebody say that once ETH does the Casper upgrade ETH will displace BTC. Personally, BTC got prohibitively expensive and slow for me to use when using BTC to trade for alts. So I switched to ETH markets and figured other people were switching too, for the same reasons. At that point I sold the last of my BTC and bought ETH, and never looked back.

Since my wife recently visited Paris with her mom and brother, I picked up 2 Architecture Eiffel Tower sets for $30 each. Used amazon. The kids think she “brought it home” from Paris.

stumbler seller count has finally come down from 70s-90s to the 40s on amazon. it was actually staging a mild rally over the summer - i sold a couple for peak price of $335, but now its back to $310. still not as bad as dread 5 which is going for $295. this set will show non-linear price appreciation which will come down to a seller count price threshold. some sellers have the capital, patience, disdain for cagr, that they will be in the game when there are fewer than 25 sellers at which point i think the set will be $500+. when that will be is another question. fact remains, could have more than doubled your money many other ways than by placing money in this set. certainly the highly broadcast lengthy pre-retirement resulted in a large amount being stashed which only hurt post-retirement performance. we just passed the 10 year anniversary of Heath Ledger's passing with nary a peep from the fleetfully minded pop culture. i thought the 10 year annivesary of the release of dark knight would initiate some kind of interest but maybe not. i sold off half my stash in the last 6 months and put the proceeds into the pink, purple, and teal where i know i can make some money.

I'm a big believer in Ethereum (ETH) too. The flippening is underway. A huge number of alt coins are built on the ETH blockchain. I think we're still in very early innings where crypto is concerned. A couple interesting things I've heard over the past 24 hours are, 1) WTC is supposed to be coming out with a big announcement very soon and that's been driving the price up, and 2) SingularityNET, symbol AGI, to the moon.

Christmas train, speed champions Ford GT, promo. VIP points accumulated over xmas back to zero, sigh... I'll bite at 50% off. This thing is going to sell at or under rrp for years. At this rate it could still be in stock everywhere this time next year. Every major retailer still has it.

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Interesting they chose the Scuderia Corsa car with American Le Mans series champion Christina Nielsen (Danish) minifig.

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really !!! did you even bother to check the feedback?

75137 Carbon Freezing Chamber x2 - $4.50 WM (only clearance I've bought this year) 7470 Space Shuttle Discovery - used - $25 Facebook Sent from my SM-G930V using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

By the time the sets are in resellers hands, LEGO has made their money. We've talked at great length about his before .. whether LEGO likes resellers or not, whether scarcity of product is good for their image or not, whether higher secondary market prices allow them to raise their prices. etc. In the end, we just don't know but love to speculate. As for the Taj Mahal, is it being unhappy with scarce sets or was someone thinking - you know, we've had a down year and had to let some people go.. We just don't have the time or money to do new designs for every market segment we're trying to reach... what if we re-release a popular but rare set? A few die hard collectors will be upset but we'll be making a larger part of the market happy. Less design time, update the packaging a little, boom, easy money. Or did they say - let's make people happy and release a set from our vault no matter whether we make money on it or not! (I know that's dramatic, but in the end they do this to make money...) Just look at the death star fiasco... giving it a new number and making some extremely minor cosmetic changes blew up in their face PR wise. Sure people are buying it because who doesn't want a death star, but it was not the happy reception they expected. People -rightly so IMO- saw it as a money grab. I know minifigs aren't that kind of money grab, but its one of the only things they could get away with in the "mystery loot" schemes - which companies do to make money. Who'd buy a box of random lego blocks unsure if it built a car or a boat. The average buyer doesn't give up and just go to ebay... it's part of the attraction to "just one more time." It's addictive just like gambling (no, I'm not saying LEGO is gambling). I honestly think LEGO likely approaches it this way: it's fun and will make us more money. People can't just buy the one they like but they'll have fun trying to find it. I'm pretty good at smooshing the bags (smooshing is the technical term for feeling up the bags) but it's time consuming.. it would be a lot more fun to just buy them blindly. Given the odds of finding the CMF(s) you want in a retail store vs some of those online games (gachas), the odds are pretty good... And there have been some well documented cases of companies making the rare items even rarer than advertised - LEGO doesn't do that. In fact, by shipping them in cases of 60, the true distribution becomes known very quickly vs companies that do not disclose the rates at all. To me that shows two things .. 1) they do care about customers and 2) they know this is good enough to make their money on them.

Oh I also liked all the minifigures, have multiple graduate degrees from ivy league.... and regardless of their marketing intent... they can...

Yay, you went to MIT. I have plenty of math edumacation. Heck, I've even had to use it in real life to add some numbers a few times. Until these latest series, it's always been exactly 16 unique figures and 60 figures to a box. If they wanted it to be even, they could have just put 3 full sets in a box ... that's 3 x 16 = 48 for those who didn't go to MIT. Still would have made a nice shaped box with 3 rows of figures per box. They could have also been a little more even if they wanted a box of 60 for whatever strange reason. 12*4 + 4*3 = 60 (sorry, that math is a little more complicated, remember your order of operations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations). So how long have you been collecting CMFs and following LEGO as a company?

For people interested in just testing the waters without actually committing real money to it, you could try out this site: https://coinloop.io/ It's not an exchange, nor a crypto Wallet. It's just a Dashboard where you pick currencies, enter a certain amount, and let it track the value of it over time. This way you could virtually 'buy' certain crypto-currencies that you might have picked if you would have bought them for real, add them to your Dashboard portfolio, and then check every day how you would have done. It's not the first site to do this, but it's very easy and user friendly. Simple to create an account there and go.

The price argument is a weak one IMO. Maybe there is piece and/or design issues, but charge another $20 and deliver a better set. $70...$80...$90...What's the difference? (Don't say $10 or $20...LOL). This set is not designed for kids IMO. It's another set designed for adults, who have the money to buy the more intricate set.

I think each version has its pros and cons. My main issue is that fans voted on one version of the set. I don't think people just voted on the idea of a ship in a bottle. When they do things like this and they don't sell as well as they want, they'll just blame fans for voting on something they didn't really want to buy instead of realizing that they materially changed what people said they were interested in having.

I like them both. LEGO could have hit a Home Run here and made it a small theme unto itself, with multiple ship and bottle types.

I realized I've only been sorting bulk and laying out pieces for sets to see what I'm missing without building any sets for months, so I pulled out the pieces for 6278. Along with my pirate ships, this was one of the largest sets I owned in my childhood. I used to make stop motion videos of the islanders against the pirates using a camera that weighed about 10 pounds. There's a VHS tape around somewhere with what could become The LEGO Pirates Movie. I will need to work on the special effects, though.

Bricklink considers that a "blocked open" head. There is also "stud recessed" which has the indention but closed inside with the Lego stamp, and then the older solid stud with Lego on top.

Tabbyboy in 2013 when he was naive Tabby boy now that he’s grown up

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A nice article comparing the original design with the official one. https://www.thebrickfan.com/comparing-lego-ideas-ship-in-a-bottle-21313-to-original-project/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegoEverlasting-LegoReviewsNews+(The+Brick+Fan+-+LEGO+Reviews+%26+News)

I have the least issue with how they handled Luke in VIII. Do I wish he would have left the island to join in the adventure, sure. The rest of the film is what I have the most issue with. Basing the main plot around a cruiser being stuck and safe from an Imperial bombardment was one of the dumbest decisions in the franchise.

Box art , can be different from market to market, obviously you have two different versions... might be original , just for different markets.

Assuming the remake is an improvement in quality/detail/structural integrity; i will always go for the remake and offload the previous model to pay for the new one. I don't have sentimental value in the sets themselves, but the ships/vehicles/scenes they depict. So if the new one looks better then i'm all for it. 10188 and Toy Shop not included of course, their differences are minuscule.

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