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I am assuming this is the show and tell section or the bragging section...lol, so there I go................. I am SO excited to share this with you guys !! I found this auction on eBay with a starting bid of $49.99 (reserve not met) (no bids) and a make offer option, Local pickup only =( I emailed the seller and they wanted to get $400 for them. They ended up agreeing to sell them to me for $200 ship to me for $36 shipping ! We have received them all and assembled them. I can not get over how immaculate they all are ! They were hers during childhood and guaranteed me that she took great care of all her things growing up ! Besides a little dust. They look brand new and all the boxes are intact and only a few creases and a little tear here or there. All the pieces are there ! Even the little gold coins and feathers for the hats. All the instructions are perfect and they even have posters that have not even been unfolded in them ! I feel very fortunate to get a hold of these and will enjoy displaying them =)

I finished this a few weeks back and I felt it turned out well. There are some small finishing touches I added to it, namely just to add one more plate on the front. Much of it is from the 21050 Architecture Studio Set with some parts gathered from various sets. Let's say this piece fulfilled its mission quite well.

I turned 20.

There will be a few Harvard Business School case studies written on this. I'm in the camp like Ed, just makes me sad overall. I have very vivid memories of how exciting it was to go to Toys R Us as a kid. I can remember the exact layout of the Southcenter store - Seattle folks who are old enough will remember the spot, it's a Value Village now. One of my strongest memories was the excitement of having like $12 and being able to buy four different G.I. Joe figures in a single trip, my biggest haul at that time. I would continue to short stock in Mattel and Hasbro as well. My kids' generation is just growing up differently with more screens as part of their daily life - when I walk into a Toys R Us now I see aisle and aisle of overproduced stuff my kids just completely pass on by...

My take on Ship in a Bottle

At some point though, people will want to see what they are buying.

I love it when you realize they gave you 11 (sometimes even 12) nuggets in your 10 piece nugget. On a side note, I hate when you only get 9. I always count.

Slow couple weeks on fba but a few sales: 2x 70737 Titan Mech Ninjago for $159 each, buy-in of $35 each 1x 41174 Elves Starlight Inn for $150, buy-in of $15 1x 75052 Mos Eisley Cantina for $129. buy-in of $50 1x 70738 Final Flight of Destiny's Bounty for $219 (last one), buy-in of $35

LEGO used to have great display boxes.

Not finding anything new here this week...just knight rider, green powerpuff and Tina. I hit about 2 to 3 stores daily on the way home from work. 1 has consistently had nothing new in about 2 weeks. The other two are hit and miss. One manager told me he has one reseller arriving early and buying up to 100 cases pretty frequently as of late which would explain the lack of new product on the shelf. $1200 not including tax out the door on these visits basically. I'm sure it's taking place at more and more stores now that word is out. I wonder how they go about this. Just buying the whole pallet and whatever is on it..Chase McCain??? shulda asked ....I have to pick my battles so I've had to be pretty picky on what I load up on at the current scale of my business.

Got the figs today. Quickly checked Fett, Lando and Luke. Figures are in great condition. Even Lando's cape is in great shape. Checked Fett's neck pegg and Lego in imprinted on it. Everything looks to be legit. First ever really good Lego score

My son's 4th grade mission project. Yeah..he had some help from dad..lol. This was our version of Old Mission Santa Barbara with natives and all. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

Might be some interest using the ebay 20% coupon for the CLAAS Xerion which is back in stock. Shipping for 2 was $4.44 total so will work well if you can get cheap shipping. I had wanted one for a personal build and they sold out fast when TRU had them at $127.97 (similar to this deal) so I was happy. I know there is still quite a bit of stock out there, but great price if you wanted one for yourself. I still think it is a cool set and will eventually rise above RRP...but looks like it might take many months.

Used to be able to get it 25% off . but it has been excluded from the last few rounds

I like how you carefully worded that....

I just made my 5th purchase and am now up to 46 tickets. Come on folks, lets hit the 20k !!!

Some ideas from target eBay courtesy of our SD homeboys

time to start using all the gift cards

It is one time use only, however I found that if you add items to your cart, instead of just Buying it Now, it applies to multiple items from different sellers at the same time.

Just tried and it's single use only.

Time to see if Niko is still around.

Seems to work for all sellers. Grabbed a couple cases of series 18 preorders for $180 shipped.

Time to live dangerously... 10% off TRU egift cards at their site. Offer only valid 12:01 am EST on March 9th - 5:59 am EST March 10th. Offer only valid while supplies last. Gift card valid from delivery until TRU lasts... Which might not be much longer than March 10th.

Nice, those classic sets have a certain magic - Enjoy them!

That could very likely be one of my suppliers. I'm in NY, but so far have 1150 sets shipped to me from the same person this time around. Similar quantities during the last round as well. Even he didn't have too many Jay or Superman sets compared to the others. Did manage to grab 72 Lloyd sets though.

Who's Powerman?

Toys will make a comeback one day, but it will be too late for TRU.

Got a used but complete Fort Legoredo and Bandits Hideout for just 80$ CAD! The instructions are mint! Can’t wait to build it. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum

Been shopping at tru since I was a kid. I remember seeing the black seas barricuda on the shelf, hoping I would have it someday. Dumb executives killing a great company, for who know what reason makes me sad.

Here is the short. There are always scumbags at the top and bottom. Always taking advantage of a system. Name them, who cares? In my experience advising people I have always seen expansion which includes new employees and their own opportunity when business owners reduce expenses, which in 100% of the cases taxes is the largest expense. Just today I met with a doctor and in reducing his taxes 60% we are,putting money in his employees pocket, that's real. That being said, I am a minority in the USA, ethnically speaking. I worked from 10 years old to today, mowing lawns, delivering pizza to advising millionaire. All the cards were stacked against me and my brothers. Never once did I think because someone has more, they owe me money or other benefits. Single mom making 7.25 an hour. I worked full time through,college as did my brothers, high school too. No handouts. My parents gave me 500 for college, thats it, that's all they had. The USA is about opportunity. I worked hard, I am a "minority", I almost failed three times. I wanted more for me and my family. I worked hard, harder than many. I am in my late thirties, I own a business, I employ people, I am upper middle class. No one gave me anything. In this country you can be what you want to be, if you want to work. Never once did I think that I was owed "things" because I was poor. I earned it! Entitlement is a manufactured belief. Both of my brothers also own their own businesses, architecture and graphic design. Poor, very poor, as I was doesn't make me entitled to take other people success. The USA is a remarkable place to call home, where I could be what I wanted to be, not defined by my race or my socioeconomic class! There are always scumbags.

You hope that smell is the sewer. It's not always LEGO sets hiding in those dresser drawers.

Several of the other figures had cracks (cloud city Han, 1 greedo, hoth leia, 2 yodas) but the seller did list them as used in very nice condition. You have to look closely at the arms to see they are cracked. Figures looked like they were at least cared for; joints are tight and capes are in good condition. I do believe that older figs were more prone to cracking. Too bad all the figures were not perfect. Lot included almost all of the imperial inspection figs too. I doubt it is worth complaining about since I will obviously not return them. A damaged Fett could still fetch probably more than I bought all 35 figs for. I will probably just trade the figure for another figure at the top of my want list.

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i call that a hiring opportunity. I will leave my business card with the cashiers .

From reading the past couple dozen pages, if they only left out the Leia Poppins character, Finn, Poe, Rose, Snoke, Benicio Del Toro character, Commander Whateverhernameis, blue milk thingamajiggers, and broom boy...the movie would have kicked ass. Am I correct?

You know what confuses me: how some people can't seem to grasp that other people saw a movie and had a different reaction to it than they did. Some movies just polarise opinion. This is one of those movies. The exceptional thing with The Last Jedi is that it was preceded by a 40-year body of work that many people had an emotional investment in. You f**k around with that kind of investment at your peril.

If members still don't understand why a lot of star wars fans hated the movie, just look at 1 of the 1000s of rant videos on youtube. Most get why fans despised the movie.

Yes, pretty cool but I wouldn't want that on my desk....LOL

I don't remember the apple?

Google Express: 75153 AT-ST (the good one ) - $31.97 (20% off). If you have 20% off coupons (and you should - they've been handing them out like candy) your price is $26 each before tax (35% off). Retired set but has been flipping in and out of stock on WM.com over the last few months.

Thanks...No matter what a person's political or religious beliefs and convictions are, supporting exceptional education is a good thing in my opinion. This LEGO raffle has and always been about keeping a great school open so that hundreds of children, faculty and families can connect on a daily basis. It is a positive energy environment that has dealt with adversity on an annual basis and has become stronger because of it.

Found these 2 new sets today!

Now I finally understand why@Lordoflego moved!

Amazon is global and continues expanding so even if US demand goes belly up, they still have Japan, India, Europe and eventually China and Russia to prop it up. Plus the failure of businesses like TRU is likely to strengthen their hand until a proper rival emerges or governments get involved to break their monopoly.

Hello Brickpicker members, We are excited to announce that we are again running our Brickpicker member discount for a series 18 pre-order as follows: $206 Box $68 Set FREE domestic shipping (+ $25 for box and $10 for set on international shipping). The set will be all 16 figures excluding the exclusive police minifigure. Shipping late April. DM with your PayPal email address to order! Happy building everyone, and happy 60th to LEGO!

I still get excited going to Toys R' Us. It never gets old. They have a certain look and smell that I will never forget. Sucks.

My kids still get excited about going to Toys R Us, as I did when I was a kid. That's what I'll miss most. I just can't come to terms with big box toy stores being no more.

Personal Set Winner: Jestro's Headquarters: Buy in $20, sell $80+ (7 of them) and probably being able to flip some Rockets within a week of getting them for about $50 profit each. Worst Decision: Not sure yet, I have some inside thoughts but am overly pleased with my 1st near full year of doing this via starting with bulk buys only and moving into sets and deciding which one's to break out into the BL store while buying bulk around town. Best Decision: Shutting the BL store down in August to organize everything so that when an order comes in I can pull it very quickly and know exactly where an item is vs knowing "about" where the items may be. I even built a 9 dresser drawer (about 4 feet wide, 5 feet tall) specifically for all my New pieces and absolutely love it. I sometimes wish I would have built 2 at the same time though as the lots/part numbers continue to increase. I originally thought that 10,000 pieces was a solid store size, then I thought 15,000 was good. Now I'm at 50,000 and still looking to continue to add more and more as time allows me with family/other job. Every order, no matter what size or sale amount puts a smile on my face. Other Best Decision: Starting to do this. I think I was hitting a mid-life crisis while going through some health issues, lyme disease like, never confirmed but treated as if it was in the end (after nearly 3 years of searching for an answer) and needed to find an escape at home and just from everything else. I believe I found that new spark in my life. Looking forward to a fun 2018.