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Helps to save when they all still live with their parents.

I was able to get these all for $85 total, can easily sell one and make my money back

Picked up 7894 airport from a charity shop for a fiver, box was a bit faded. Expected the worst when I put it together this afternoon. To my amazement all present and correct mint with all three instruction books. Looks like it was built twelve years ago and put straight back in the box again, right result ??

Sold Davey Jones, found him in a load of random Playmobil we got at a charity shop, so no buy in. Really sorry to see him go. Sold for £55 on ebay, £44 profit after fees and postage.

the truck is available

Great build. Had not built a proper lego ship in about 20 years.

I, for one, look forward to the limited edition gold plated 1x1 Cheese Wedge in 2020.

After my previous comments about this likely being available even cheaper, I picked another one up today from TRU in store. £79.99, £10 off for spending over £50, and a £5 voucher from taking out a gold card. The box, unusually for TRU, is perfect. £64.99 is close enough to half price for me ??

Bet you wish you hadn’t stumbled on that Minifigure and thus never got pulled into the world of Lego Investing!

He is expensive...

8x 40165 Wedding Favour set as a job lot £45 after fees. Buy in was 30 pence each as a result of some complimentary points from SaH and a £10 lego shop voucher I got through the post before Christmas. Thought I'd get them gone rather than waiting around - as the new version is better!

This.

four digits club: 4207 for 180 euros shipped, 1 euro eBay fee. Last one, bought at 50% off

Millennials also answered that 1 in 6 has $100,000 saved. I find that hard to believe with my experience with those in that age bracket. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/01/23/millennials-1-6-now-have-100-000-socked-away/1053803001/

! Wife and baby clothed in Primark sweatshop fodder so household budget can be diverted to the Lego budget. Now that's a Lego fanatic! Credit due.

This doesn't surprise me at all. Millenials are the ones who are currently answering "long term" and "yes" to the following questions: 1) Are you looking for long term or short term investments? 2) Are you willing to accept a high amount of risk in your investments? I've done the RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan for those south of the border .. it's a tax-deferred investment option) talk with my financial person a dozen times over the years and the last time, we answered "moderate" to the amount of risk we'd accept for the first time ever (I am not a Millenial :)). We had always been high risk before knowing that we still had plenty of time to recover. Crypto currencies are high risk and the good ones have proven that a long-term stay-the-course approach has paid off. I can't emphasize 'high risk' enough though. If I lost every penny I've put into cryptos, it would not matter at all. If I lost everything I've put into savings (RRSPs) then I'd be fu..ed and working until I was dead.

My original comment about people turning back to LEGO was somewhat facetious in nature. After what we have experienced the last few years, what's the chance that LEGO becomes a hot commodity again? Not very high...but it is increasing. I have always appreciated the many very smart people on this site that share information and educate the novices out there. There are many people way smarter than me and that make a whole bunch of more money than me on stocks, bonds, crypto-currency...whatever, so I respect their opinions. That being said, the stock market and bitcoins and some of these other high flying investments are a house of cards, built on credit cards and debt and BS. It is run by the 1%ers, who could care less about the little guy/gal. They will get paid, regardless of the daily gyrations. I dabble in them, but I am no means a professional. I am a novice. At some point though, when people are tired of losing thousands (or millions) in a few hours, they will revert back to tangible investments....Real estate, small business, gold, coins....LEGO. I am not saying LEGO will replace stocks or bonds or bitcoins, but at least it is something that does appreciate and you can touch it. One of these days, "real" will be hip again and "fake" will be another four letter word.

Only a matter of time: "The e-commerce and retail giant is reportedly developing a "Shipping With Amazon" delivery service that would compete against FedEx and UPS, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal." https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/02/09/amazon-reportedly-developing-delivery-service-compete-fedex-and-ups/322725002/

Arctic theme is a classic example of lego investing. The plane and the little ski bike were winners, the boat is OK and the rest are turds so selling the whole range means amortising the cost of the turds against the winners. Much better just to have focused on the 3 decent sets but that plane was not so easy to find. Now they will all take a hit as the new sets are very similar.

Nope I was walking past on the way to primarni with the wife and baby ?

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As is argued plentiful here: buy-in is key ! For the ones who bought Pet Shop at RRP when it was about to retire there's no meat on the bones at that price. But a buy-in at > 50% discount from RRP is a no-brainer still for the Creator Expert Modulars.

76057 Spiderman Bridge is 37% off in Argos - fantastic set.

And if it’s anything like the T1 Camper Van and Tower Bridge - never.

Just a heads up, a whole bunch (33) new SKUs were just added on Kmart. (I wish I hadn't just blown a ton of soon to expire points on stuff I thought was ok) http://www.kmart.com/toys-games-blocks-building-sets-building-sets/b-26053?Brand=LEGO&filterList=Brand&sortOption=NEWEST&kmartTab=true Seems like none are flagged as free-shipping eligible yet.

Picked up two more. Now 9 left. Let's clean this one up! https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Creator-Expert-Ferrari-Construction/dp/B011DOSKRG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518140773&sr=8-2&keywords=ferrari+lego

Great News! The Bezos exclusive is almost oos. EDIT: Now 17

this is really one of the logical explanations.. however I dont think so.. imagine that you have such a short production line (robots are mostly used on the packing line).. would it make sense to ad-hoc put on the rolling belts different sets just to make it to the end of the conveyor quite unattended in haphazard order.. so that the factory workers would put an ID sticker once on a mill, next time on the truck etc.. im not saying that you cant be right.. its just hard to perceive that it would really work this way. I would expect the factory line to produce and pack the entire load of one box .. and then continue to the other one. (you have to think also about the actual paper box in which the bricks are put)

Could be that they produced 15000 as 5000 of each then numbered them 1-15000 in no particular order. Or it could be that they just weren’t numbered sequentially.

You lost me at dislocations ....

Found some more leftover Sand Baseplates at my local small out of the way Target for $4.

I have your set right on my dining room table!

If the stock market continues to tank, people will be looking for alternative investment sources once again. It has happened before...it can happen again.

Buy Buy Buy!

Another bad day on the stock market. I foresee people looking to put their money into the safe haven of LEGO bricks.

Wonder if they ever start their numbering higher like some banks start checkbooks at 1,000?

Just picked up 2 sets from a guy on offer up. Disney Castle & Assembly Square. Both used complete, no boxes or instructions. $300

Picked up 75171 for $20 this morning at Walmart.

Ha!. Nope... I do have G&T type cocktail that I make for my wife called Patience.

What? They don’t sell liquor!

Take comfort in knowing that if it does have legs, you can combine it with the other Jurassic World Fallen Kindgdom sets to make your own hybrid dinosaur.

did you stick this paper on the shelf so you can avoid the competition?

I think there are now more crypto currencies in existence than the number of Ecto 1 listings on Ebay.

Been a good start to the year. With a number of sales on eBay, FB and Gumtree: Ninjago Dawn of Iron Doom Buy in £45 / Sold £100/ Profit £45 / Hold Less than a month Pet shop £100 / £170 / £50 / 1 year Shuttle Tydirium £40 / £95 / £45 / 1.5 year Dr Who £22 / £53 / £28 / 1.5 year Ecto 1 £27 / £62 / £29 / 1.5 year 5 x Anniversary promo, Valentine Bee, VIP Promo & Flower bundle £12.75 / £60 / £42 / less than a week Elves Queen Dragon £45 / £109 / £50 / 1 month 5 x R2-D2 & R3-M2 poly £0 / £20 / £17 / six months 2 x Wall-E £23 / £80 / £50 / 1.5 year 2 x Wither £20 / £50 / £24 / less than a month Total profit: £690 (which will be ploughed straight into 2 MOCs that I am currently sourcing bricks)

Toys R US online has 21309 for $119.99. Not sure if that's more indicative of current supply in the market or Toys R US coming to their senses with some of their financial issues.

Here is a 6 month update for those that were curious. The ship has weathered quite nicely. The only thing I'm worried about is the sails, they look great now, but I don't know about long term. It has not been a maintenance nightmare, as a matter of fact, our cleaner fish and snails do an excellent job!! We get more comments on this display than any of our other displays....people love it!!! I'll post a one year update just for sh*ts and giggles.

Why would what it's currently selling for on Ebay make any difference to your decision? You don't buy these sets to sell now, unless you find really crazy discounts. A better reason not to buy it would have been, it's ****.

I've noticed that the battle packs can do well if you get a nice low buy in and Sainsbury's often knock these out cheaply. Also noticed that 75054 At At is doing well. I picked one up in JL that must have been a return for £39.99. It's complete but the box has taken a beating. Torn between building or selling.

Time for some exciting new conspiracy theories....

Bitcoin, the world where any compound noun inserted into a sentence makes perfect sense. My pollypocket got a jacknife in a cryptocrunchie.