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Room just about finished. Sadly my budget didn't buy me bespoke shelving so I had to settle for cube shelving. Doesn't work for the big sets so these have to sit on top. Overall, pleased with the effort and it has cleared other areas of the house. We now have space that we never thought we had! If my better half gets cross, at least I can sleep with the Lego!

We all know why. Chem trails from the deep state lunar landing.

It's just a section. You can buy about 800 of them to complete it.

Hopefully, I’ll be dead before everyone is walking around in bubble wrap. Everyone needs to grow thicker skin.

And for the record, I would prefer they keep Mandalay Bay in the set. I understand why they are allegedly doing what they are doing. But I also don't think this is a black and white thing with a clear answer as to what is right. The only black and white thing is that the shooter was in the wrong.

This set, Ninjago City, and Temple of Airjitzu should not really be considered with the rest of the Ninjago sets. Totally different appeal to them. I'm not interested in the TV show, or the movie, but these sets are excellent, so I bought them.

This is pretty cool! Someone combined two Destiny's Bounty sets to create a bigger ship: In the description of the video: Two combination sets of Lego the Ninjago movie set 70618 Destiny's Bounty is now here. All parts is used only from the 2 sets of 70618 except custom sails and non-Lego string. The length is double with more rooms and space. Training room was moved to lower deck and Master Woo room was moved to second deck. opposite to toilet, It is space for cargo.

Porsche have been following the same strategy with the 911 for the last 40 years!

LEGO Heroes Needed Event 10 February 12-2 at TRU. 40% off "select sets". No idea what those sets are yet. Just mark your calendars...

Found this comment on Rebelscum a bit interesting: "German LEGO fan site zusammengebaut.com reports that LEGO noted that the popularity of their Star Wars theme had peaked (when?) and that sales were declining. In their live blog of the LEGO press conference, the field reporter from zusammengebaut.com noted that the mood from LEGO was glum." http://www.rebelscum.com/story/front/LEGO_Nuremburg_Toy_Fair_Reveals_178467.asp -------------------- Personally, I think this is an accurate assessment. I think the Star Wars theme is tumbling towards rock bottom (and hasn't reached it yet), but it's heading there and quickly. I don't blame this strictly on Lego, but a lot of the blame should be placed on Disney's shoulders. It's just not Lego that is tumbling, but the Star Wars theme in general. I recently noticed the Toys R Us in my vicinity completely scaled back the Star Wars aisle, and marvel merchandise was combined with it. Basically the space was halved. I also noticed two targets in my area do the same thing. I personally didn't like the Last Jedi movie, and I don't think my son thinks too much about that film either since he doesn't seem to want anything from it, and still hasn't built the two sets from the theme he got from Christmas. Overall, looking at this year, I only have interest in picking up the Ach-to, Yoda's Hut, and all 4 battle packs (already picked up the Jawa version).. The Solo film sets i'm going to have a wait and see attitude with (I did pretty much the same for the Last Jedi), but I could see definitely picking up the speeder, but i have no interest in the new falcon other than maybe bricklinking minifigs a few years from now when prices bottom out on them. Overall, I don't see myself spending much money on Star Wars this year. It will probably be around 130 bucks at most. Not anything like previous years. I also feel the same way about the Marvel infinity sets (have zero interest other than bricklinking some figs). The Jurrassic World sets is probably going to get the most dollars from me this year. Anyway, can Star Wars recover? I don't know... i'm a bit of an old timer now with this theme, as we have a pretty solid collection but with rehashes, and sets based on movies that didn't inspire - well it will be hard pressed to want to go and buy every single set. At this point, I no longer just collect them all. If I had a 3 or 4 year old again, and wasn't around for the 2010-2015 era I could see myself anxiously awaiting the Sandcrawler, and X-wing, but at this point, it's hit the rehash and revision cycle and I dont know if it's enough to make me want to go out and buy those. The future of this theme gets bleaker with each wave reveal, i'm afraid to say.

The brick bounty a £80 / 745 part ship, is now selling at £100-£125. A set that was readily available at 50% discount. I know because I bought at mine at sub £50. So sure no reason to expect a set with 7 figs, 2256 parts at nearly 3kgs of Lego and bricklink part value of nearly $320, is going to sell at above £110 in the aftermarket, no reason at all.

Please keep us in the loop with your build on these, I reckon that is going to be one big boat! And let us know if you manage to find some pdf instructions rather than keep freezing the youtube vid!

Yep, $300 between this and my last 4431 Ambulance I sold.

FBM - 4429 - City: Helicopter Rescue - $175

Not really, they also end the GOOD shows too early. Two examples: SW Rebels and Gargoyles

You still think there is a final movie.. Star wars movies, all the way down.

Disney needs to be worried about over-saturation. With a new movie every year people are going to tire of it especially if the audience is divided about the quality of the product they are putting out there as it was with TLJ. From a toy perspective a lot of the TFA and TLJ vehicles, sets, and characters are bland and uninspiring. One of the prequels few strengths was it's colorful and unique designs which carried over into the Clone Wars. We aren't seeing that with the new trilogy.

At this point, I think they need to go back to cutting back on what they release. There are too many sets. Remember when it was just two good waves per year? They need to go back to that. Just looking at the force friday 2 and winter wave for this year, they could have completely cut out the Transport Pod, the Assault Walker, the Bomber, the half built AT-ST, the Cantina, and the two combined microfighter packs. While some of the minifigures in those sets are nice, they could have beefed those into other sets, or did a little stronger on the battle packs. Right now, they need to have a less is more approach to this theme. So many of the sets I listed above are just not that interesting and i'm not going to spend 50.00 on a set just because of 2 minifigures.

Nice deal.....https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Creator-Village-Station-Building/dp/B075LVT3PH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517408533&sr=8-1&keywords=lego+train+station Go go go......

So, release it in year but don’t alter it as if the building wasn’t already in the set. Hopefully the truth will come out soon enough as to the why this horrific event took place in the first place but once again, people can’t handle the truth so less is more here as well.

Got to start somewhere! Now it’s about increasing your turnover with quick flips to replenish your funds and reinvest that into more sets so that inventory and returns grow.

It's a ploy to clear stock from Tesco. Do not buy.

It's official ! Nexo Knights is FINISHED ! https://brickset.com/article/33959/the-end-of-nexo-knights Winter 2018 sets are the last Nexo sets. There won't be any follow up sets. No Summer 2018 sets anymore.

Keep some lead in your pencil for October sales - I expect at least 40% off Ninjago Movie sets.

Couldn't you have mixed and mashed the heads of all the old dinosaur molds? This is going to turn out just like the Hero Mashers.

230 euro price tag, can be connected to Ninjago City and will be released in June.

so you add a cheese slope and with luck they will ship separately.

I know this is stupid, but, I'm going to separate the regular 2018 Brickheadz talk from the Seasonal Brickheadz. It's a little because we have traditionally had a seasonal thread every year. So, talk away about the Seasonal Brickheadz here:

Alright alright. His last sentence can be read differently depending on whether you think it was stated within the context of the previous sentence or as a separate statement. I obviously took it as a generic statement about the US market, where it was intended (I assume) as an Amazon specific statement. Mea culpa.

Sold both of my 75105 MF's for $190 shipped on ebay, buy in was $45 from Walmart clearance a year or two ago. Have also sold a couple 10240 UCS X Wings on BL for $275. The purge continues.

(all FBA) i've sold 11 for $97.99 so go figure. great return on a $35 buyin. all of the first order sets people took a leak on are going to surprise to the upside. sold 8x First Order Snowspeeders for $54.99, buyin $19 in the last 3 weeks also. sold 8x little red racer creator cars 31055 I picked up online clearance for $3.23 less than 4 weeks ago for $14.79. yeah baby - little sets getting it done. only 67x more to sell. 9x Friends Foal washing stations for $21.99 (buyin $4 a month ago). 8x Rebel Trooper battle packs for $20 each - buyin $4 2 weeks ago. 6x Speed Champions F150 Raptor -Model A for $74.99, buyin $25 during last years TRU 50% off sale. 5x Juniors Lost Temples for $44.90 each, buyin during Target's clearance blow out last summer for $11.63. glad i went deep on these.

Pretty sure the over-saturation is already there. They are using the Marvel formula which seems to work well for them.

125gbp would be the Uk record, 114 euros in France IIRC

UK buyers might like to make a comparison between this and Saturn V. Similar part counts, boxes and RRP´s and likely to have similar lives. Would 3 Bounties at 40% off do better than 2 Saturns at full RRP with VIP points? And would the Porsche 911 trump both? There are going to be a lot of interesting choices to make this year for those that can´t invest heavily in all of them.

My 2nd ever sale on Ebay and again, more of a quick flip than investment but I'm happy. LEGO Super Heroes 76081: The Milano vs. The Abilisk Sold for £44.95, buy in £24. Maybe £12 profit after fees.

Look at how much effort the intern put into the trade fair display.

Two Destiny's Bounty - £74.99 each on Amazon. These are to be combined into one larger ship.

Drives me bananas when they change the heads on trex and irex. I’m always picking piles of dismembered limbs after they play with them!

Ok guys, so I got a little more insight into this whole design. I went to the Signing event at the lego store in Salt Lake City, and had a chance to ask some question of the designer. (On top of getting my box signed.) I asked him why they nerfed it so much, and he said that his own design has some flaws and was extremely fragile, and had some seams that wouldn't work for stability purposes. He also admitted that there were some illegal techniques he used in his submission. So it started to make a little more sense why it's a bit different. So take it as you will, but this is coming directly from the Sadovich himself.

Found an online return of Assault on Hoth 75098 at an area Target. The box was beat up and marked down to $175. When I got to the register, it rang up $125!

I would have sold my one and only 75101 First Order Tie Fighter for $95 FBA today and cleared a nice 100% ROI .... if it wasn't for the fact that the buyer happened to be in my state and without a business selling account, I cannot have Amazon take care of the tax for me, so I have to pay tax myself. Ergo ... dropped down to 90% ROI. Bummer.

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

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.

Built the Dragster Transporter set and it was bought for its versatility. So glad I bought a few for investment too. This set seems to be a winner and we are using it as more a heavy cargo transport. We have that one also. ?

Still waiting for the price to rise. I might head out and buy some tomorrow.

After spending most of the year bricklinking the Barad Dur, it's finally done with a few modifications, it stands 45 inches tall. Thanks to Kevin at BrickStruct for creating the instructions. The model still needs a couple of mods that I will do when I have room to display it.

I don't care about Ninjago. Not seen the show, not going to see the movie unless it is foisted upon me. I still want this set.

Perfect skillset to work in TRU warehouse.