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I finally finished our Bounty upgrade MOC and put it with the rest of our ships. Sails were more difficult than I had thought , so will re do them again one day as I’m not happy with them. Overall though , a great looking ship I think.

It's hard for me to believe. Obviously, financially it was easy to see coming. But I'm sorta awe-struck in a sad way. Like you just never thought it would not be there. Toys R Us just is. It's like as a little kid watching reruns of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and then finding out that he had died. Or, as I can say first hand, losing a grandparent. Obviously, it's two very different things, and losing a cherished family member is much more somber than a company shutting down, but still. Sometimes I get really sad when I think about my grandparents that have died in the last few years. When I'm in a store, and melancholically remember to myself "Hey, just a year ago I was walking right through this very aisle with grandma." Or driving by their houses and knowing they're not there. It's hard to take in. There's that lack of control, that you can't do anything about it. And I'm sure in years future, seeing those old abandoned store buildings, or that have been converted into something else, and all the empty parking lots will be hard to take in. I've gotten those same feelings with K-Mart. It's nostalgic. K-Mart was magic to me in my early childhood, before we got a Wal Mart in my small town. It was the only big, non dollar-store type store we had. The Little Caesar's pizza place we had in it and doing the coloring sheets on the tables. Those early-mid 2000's LEGO's on the shelves. 5 y/o me riding around in the cart with one of those big plush character pillows I had grabbed off the shelf. Putting stuff on Layaway with my grandma. And then my K-Mart shut down about 2 years ago now. And she died around the same time. And every time I drive by it, and see the imprint of the removed K on the building, it makes me sad. I'd like to go into a K-Mart again sometime before the last ones close down. The nearest one's about an hour and a half away but I'd make it just for the experience. We didn't have a Toys R Us in my town. The closest was in the city about 2 hours away. So, about once a year we'd go into the city for some big outing or shopping trip and stop by. It was so exotic to me, like Disney World. A whole store instead of just a few aisles. And alot of the really big $200+ sets that I'd only ever seen in shop at home catalogs. And now to think in the near future, that'll all be gone. Abandoned buildings where children once ran though the aisles. And one of them was me. It makes me sad. Something that always was there growing up just isn't any more. I feel the same way about K-Mart, about my grandma, about Robin Williams, and now Toys R Us. I just hope we don't lose Chuck E Cheese anytime soon. I don't think my childhood could take it.

Watched with the family for the first time. My son has logical questions. About half-way through, my wife said she was just confused. When it was over, I asked her what questions she still had, she responded with, "Sometimes I think they should just end things, instead of ruining it. I'm going to bed!"

Our Chuck E (later showbiz) was right next to Toys R Us. We went a lot and I can never remember going to just one. We always at least strolled through TRU before getting out pizza and skeeball on. Once I got old enough to ride my bike there it was the same. The bike rack was at TRU so I locked up there, checked out the video game & lego isles at tru, then went to showbiz to play 720 and Paperboy all afternoon. It was just the best.

maybe not much but it delivers, my small adorable Tidirium Shuttle.

Wife just found one new at Target clearanced for 559... bite, right? I don't know I can afford it to keep but maybe resell?

Started binging Seinfeld for the first time

Impromptu lightsaber battle against my kids for 30 minutes last night. I am out of shape.

I think someone was asking about the stand from wicked brick, just got mine and seems really good, nice and sturdy.

Can't speak to that. But in my experience stores don't have any way of overriding automatic triggers on FC/surprise points. They work or they don't. And store staff don't really have the tools to mess with your account in a way that would help. Your best bet is to either find another store or contact customer service by phone or chat to get them to arrange an in-store pickup with the points applied as a 1 time courtesy. For the latter, you'd tell them you tried to use the offer and it didn't work in spite of meeting T&C's, then ask them to apply the equivalent points to the order in exchange for removing the offer from your account. You'll probably need to talk to the team that handles customer service for stores rather than the website.

WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY!

Much to my son’s dismay, my wife built 60146 - Stunt Truck today. He got a few steps in and took a break. She sat down and next thing we knew she was done.

I'm so happy that LEGO named a set after me!

can't edit anymore so if "mode" could merge together my quick during "netflix binge" update

I went to a kids birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese. It is nothing remotely close to the experience in the 80's. It was tough to be a part of. As far as gift cards, I believe they said 30 days. Someone else asked about discount amount, I was told 10% off start.

Yes. We both were.

Done. 5% additional off with red card. Crazy

interesting... thanks.

Uh oh. I know what that is. Here in SoCal (and I’m guessing everywhere else), they started registering store credit issued gift cards in your name. CS told me it was to minimize GC theft. I had to return something recently, and I was just going back in the store to buy something so I asked for a credit instead of a charge back. They asked me if I wanted to put anyone else’s name on the GC so they could use it too. Idk if this is going to be a problem with cars from Raise, etc.

Just wanted to let you all now that I was the winner of the Amazon GC, and that Ed has already sent the GC to me!! I am glad that I got to donate some money to the kids, and I am thankful for all of Ed's time and effort. Off to Amazon to buy more Lego's!!!

There's a lot of complaining about this set but overall I like it. I mean we're getting a Tron Lego set. Something I never figured would happen. Olivia Wilde minifig ? Makes me want to build a micro-Tron cityscape.

Actually, we're thinking about this all wrong. It's in the life-cycle of a business. Amazon is the Sears and Roebuck of the 21st century. Think about it. When Sears became big in the late 1800s and into the 1900s, Sears was a mail order service and their catalog, which was inches thick, was golden. I know people who ordered prefab houses through the Sears catalog in the early 1900s. Then they began opening stores and the rest is history. I'm not sure how many know this but Amazon began opening their own store fronts last year. They will simply replace the stores that are going out of business until another company is the new upstart and does to Amazon what they're doing to everyone else. I just hope I'm around to buy stock in that company... lol.

KMart granted me another $15 on $15 "in-store" only. Freecash coupons from last week are valid as of today as well. Gentle reminder if you have a Sears near-by, check your Freecash offers. Just cashed in 2x $20 on $30 and 1x $30 on $40 to get barbecue tools, a hedge trimmer, a digital tire gauge, an 80ft extension cord and a few $2-$3 filler items for $28 including tax (retail value according to Sears ~$140). Had I spent more than $30 in one transaction after points, I would have earned $20 back. The jackpot machine (aka the cash register) proceeded to grant me a further $10 on $10 and a $20 on $30. Guess I'll be back.

The guy sounds like a jerk. Now, I know that some companies pack up and ship slow moving merchandise from stores that are going to remain open to ones that are closing and clearancing stuff out. DO we know that's not what was happening? All that garbage may have most likely been the detritus of every TRU within 3 states. There's no way that a TRU backroom is so deep that they could hold that much product. as was shown. No manager would allow that level of the same product to pile up. Blaming Disney and Star Wars for the collapse of Toys R Us is ignorant and flies in the face of the physical realities that TRU has been in trouble for a long time. Pointing out the toys to life stuff and blaming the collapse on Disney is also ignorant because every one of those brands is collapsing including Dimensions and Amiibo and Skylanders which have 0 Disney content. Constantly mentioning SJWs sounded bitter and resentful. Did Hasbro produce too much Star Wars product? oh yeah. Have they done it in the past? most definitely. Remember bins of Episode 1 Figures and all the toys that they sold to Toys R Us at massive discounts in about 2000? Hasbro was sitting on warehouses full of figures that they sold to Toys R US who then sold them to consumers at massive discounts. They got high on their supply, but eventually bounced back. They've diversified too much, trying to get Spaceballs the flamethrower up and running. But that's not what crashed Toys R Us, and it's not what killed the toy market. Tablets and their games as well as other digital content have done that.

I'm a TRON Legacy big fan and even bigger fan of the DAFT PUNK score for this movie which was 10/10 for me and still is. I would rather have Daft Punk minifigs than TRON Legacy Characters but with RINZLER you just can't go wrong. Day 1 for me. Wonder if he (Rinzler) will even have a face or they made black head placement like HULKBUSTER LIMITED MINIFIG with no god damn face :/

RIP Stephen Hawking.

Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Take for example LEGO Star Wars 75140 Resistance Troop Transporter. It retired December 2016 (USA), early 2017 (Europe). The LEGO RRP (recommended retail price) was $69.99 (USA), €69.99 (Germany), €79.99 (Netherlands). Until now this set is still available on Bricklink for about 50% off RRP, one year after it retired! Okay, granted, that's one of the worst examples I could give. But price/value rise of a set after it retires is not a given. It really depends on the set, on the prolonged demand for it after it officially retires, on the amount produced of the set while it was in production, on the amount of rare / unique minifigs or printed LEGO elements included in the set. Just so you know: there are plenty of Brickpicker members here who have been in this 'game' for years, who still struggle to only pick the right sets that will increase in value after retirement, and to avoid the bad sets that completely fail to increase in value (so called turds on this site ). It's not an exact science but based on sentiments and unpredictable effects.

The best part of owning this on digital is that the movie is only about 20 minutes long now that I can skip past all the crap.

My son and I started in on 70751 - Temple of Airjitsu today.

Lego should go back to the flap top display boxes and add storage compartments inside. I think that's one of the reasons so many of those boxes are still around with the complete sets. Nice packaging adds value, just look at Apple products.

@Shewie That P51 is AWESOME! I didn't build "today", but it's been my current project that I just finished within the past couple days and since I just found the love here, I figured I'd share the love! If Ya'll are not aware of this set, it's part of the Lego Certified Professional Brand Limited to 100pcs Exclusively at the "The Renault Workshop" in Paris. There were 2 other sets released that day, a Speed Champions series RS17 (1000pcs) and a Concept RS27 Expert Creator (40pcs) set. The set pictured below is the Creator Expert RS17 model. I sourced the instructions and built the set from scratch while also creating the stickers from scratch (happy to help others just send me a PM). My build progress was detailed on a thread here in these forums. I welcome others to join the adventure for this awesome set. It's stunning on display.

It all started with one of our fish having babies. We separated them in a breeding tank for a couple of days. But that was not enough....my wife and sons teamed up on me and begged for a bigger tank. Next thing I knew...we had decided to not only get a bigger tank, but also decided exactly how we wanted to decorate it. We love our Lego displays, and this was just another creative way to add to the collection. What the hell...right?!! Great build! Very fragile! Great display piece!

Right after all the stores around me sold out of ppg team packs, every Wal-Mart around suddenly were packed full.

I'm seeing some of these 1.99 packs pop up at Target as returns.....you can feel the residue where the 1.99 sticker was taken off. Haven't been out lately to load up on packs as I'm at my quota and then some. Not sure if this round is over, but based on the slowdown of posts on slickdeals and reddit threads..sure seems like it.