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Done BA's price might be $12000, but somebody will probably think it's worth $13000.

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On behalf of those of us who weren't grandfathered in and can't sell Junior sets at x5 rrp at the holidays.

well i couldn’t just leave them there. found at tjmaxx/homegoods for 50 cents a pack. i got all 74 that were there. now, what to do with them...

Found all the figures in my bulk! Woohoo! Time to list this bad boy up for sale.

We needz a ebay coupon already dang Sent from my SM-G955U using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

A shut down R2-D2 is a more compelling character than Kylo Ren/Ben Solo.

Ah finally, proof that you have indeed been smoking some wacky tobacky, no other reason to come out with a statement like that.

I'm with you there. Target glitch round 2.

Yesterday I sold the last of my six Death Stars on eBay. Profited $240-250 each after fees and shipping.

I heard a rumor that on May the 4th, all black card holders will be picked up in a life size Lego UCS Millennium Falcon and flown around the universe. Guess that’s the “BIG” perk of getting one of the cards.

It took me 5 months to open the shipping container. I'm not ready for the next step in this commitment. :-D

Slowly working on Temple of Airjitsu. Finally got the second building together.

3x 21030 Architecture Capitol 4,98€ each! Already shipped! ? 95% off! Biggest bargain since 2012 for me!

Today's Loot..... he took good care of them , all sealed........

I didn’t receive the original email they are referencing, but this is good news :

He's not the issue. Neither is Rey. The rest of the characters are so lame (besides Chewie). While I was being somewhat facetious with my R2 comment, I think they definitely could have utilized R2 and C-3PO much more than they did. A wasted opportunity in my opinion. They never failed to deliver in the Original Trilogy.

Will he take LEGO sets as a trade?

sure for the right price BA would sell his... everyone has a price

Sarcasm post of the year.

Holding out for $140

Not mentioned, we are a pro account for few years with 5 stars, 100% positive comments so it looks like it impacts everybody and no more Grandfathered account autorization.

Before we had kids my wife and I spent numerous hours playing Diablo II together on our LAN. Working together to kick the crap out of the boss-monsters we encountered. Ah, those were the days...

Is it more or less likely that some entity or group will eventually purchase the TRU name and reopen using that name and the brand that was built around it in new locations, than that someone will step in and save extant stores that are in the process of depleting merchandise?

LEGO Marketing VP

TJ Maxx, here we come!

Mine is also 6218874.

Ethics thread has been waaaayyy too quiet the last year ....

I think it just comes down to compelling main characters. The LOTR had them...The Hobbit did not. Even though Gandalf was in both and a strong character, he could not make up for the lackluster dwarves. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli were much more interesting. Same with original STAR WARS crew. Han Solo was cool. Darth Vader was a bad ass. A young Princess Leia was tough and cute. Obi-Wan (Alec Guiness) was iconic. In these new movies, the old crew was just that...old. Besides Ridley, the new cast is annoying and forgettable.

Everyone in that room except Rey and Kylo were dead. Somehow, I would expect killing someone who is unconscious would go against her moral compass. General Hux tells kylo that she took Snoke's own personal shuttle. So, she got off the ship, Chewie didn't land there. Where was the ship? well, it could have been in the hangar, or possibly near his throne room, who knows? As far as no one seeing the pickup, The Resistance was fleeing in little ships without really great equipment, and I would assume the First Order was very focused on damage control and not on a freighter that pops into the system to meet up with a shuttle and is not trying to approach them. I think that if I were going to complain about the space sequences, it would be the distinct lack of TIE Fighters attacking and defending in any of the space shots. I have complained frequently about Holdo sitting in the only ship with Shields strong enough to deflect the energy attacks and weapons, watching 2/3 of the remaining resistance ships getting blown out of the sky before deciding to do a suicide plan which should never have worked. If you recall in Rogue One, there were smaller ships that were just starting their run up to light speed that collided with Vader's Star Destroyer Devastator causing them to get crushed, and the Devastator gets no damage. She should have piloted the larger vessel between the fleeing ships and the oncoming fire, or gone on the attack, either option may have saved more Resistance personnel. Instead she let enough die that the entire remaining personnel could fit in the Falcon. All of that said. I don't understand the hate for the movie. I mean seriously, no Star Wars movie is objectively a great movie. They are all pulp with nonsense scattered about. Maybe I am able to disengage enough to actually have fun no matter.

This explains why all the hobbyists were trying to dump their Cyclones at the last two Toy / LEGO conventions I attended.

Having just turned 40, with about 1,000 sets that I don't know how to get rid of, LEGO always pulls me back.

I think it has a very different audience than this thing.

Minifigures will fly, yes.

Where on Earth did you find that ?

I've never had an interest in Modulars. But thanks to Target's pricing error, I got a look at Assembly Square and decided "these look nice, I need to have them all"... which seemed like a terrible life decision at the time... so I followed my norm and walked down that path. Thankfully my very detailed saved search strings and alerts on eBay helped me find these gems at what I would consider good prices. No boxes, but otherwise complete. That large stack of Assembly Squares has supplemented another hording epidemic. Seller was dumping her collection. Direct messaged me and offered me a Pet Shop for $148 shipped but I'm certain I can find better. So that brings me to 5 with Assembly Square, Palace Cinema, and Detectives Office which are all sealed. I'm $500 in the hole so far for 5 modulars. I'm super cheap when it comes to buying things actually for me, so I'll find the rest at what I consider to be a reasonable price... or I won't find them at all. Another exciting hunt begins.

Impenetrable is a strong word. More like if anyone knew of a way, it would behoove them to tighten that lip up or open the floodwaters to ebay 2.0. The $1k fee was removed a while back, unless it's made a comeback. Stressful is definitely a word I would use as too much negative feedback can get your account suspended. At any time Amazon could also request invoices from any seller selling lego on Amazon. Then what? Yeah, probably overblown a bit as most sellers who get their account suspended just seem to be bad sellers (sending crap in, or really just not knowing what they are doing through FBM or FBA), but that that doesn't mean it can't happen for a variety of other reasons. Knock on wood, say a few prayers tonight, tomorrow is not guaranteed on that platform. Just my 2 cents for what it's worth, but there is money to be made on ebay as many do indeed make good money selling on that platform selling various items including lego. You just have to be a lot more aware of the purchases your making, hold longer, go PowerSeller, buyin buyin buyin price, etc... Don't follow every picker posting their buys, as many of them sell on different platforms. Newbies beware. Forum suggestion - I'd suggest an area for BP's to post under their avatar stating what platform they sell on. May help the newbies out. Then again, what do I know.

gate came down 8/26/2016. if you sold a certain amount of LEGO before this date you were grandfathered in. if you had an account which had been dormant for LEGO selling for years, you might have been gated out. the gate thus far is impenetrable unless you are an authorized LEGO reseller with a letter from TLG + $1000 fee to Jeff. no that won't work but it might get your ENTIRE amazon selling account banned. only practical way to sell lego on amazon now would be to try and buy someone's amazon store that is grandfathered in. i predict we will see such sales in the next few years as some sellers get out of the game. it is extremely lucrative selling on amazon with strongest leveraging of your efforts with respect to number of sales and price per sale and almost no time packaging individual boxes or dealing with customer service (at least in my experience). even a small time person like me can move 5 digits in weekly sales during the holiday insanity and ability to sell LEGO and other gated toys on amazon will be worth thousands of dollars to the next generation of reseller scum when I finally tire of the smell of post camping weekend sleeping bag fart that greets me every time i walk into walmart to go hunting. you can read about it all starting here:

i built these two Dragon Sanctuary today. I bought one on auction on ebay ($93) and got another one on CL ($60). Both were 100% complete with boxes and manuals. Sealed ones are way too expensive.

I guess that explains the empty shelves in TRU. Millions of people just like that guy.

This is just sad...

I'm in for 100 boxes (no LEGO, just the boxes).

Now official...

March 30, 2018. This is a date that will forever be remembered. I can get a little emotional at times. As an adult, there are a few instances when I've shed a tear. I cried when my son was born. I cried again a year later when my daughter was born. I cried tears of joy when my beloved Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl 31 after three decades of mediocrity, and again when they won Super Bowl 45. The last time I cried was two years ago this April when my Mom passed away. March 30, 2018. Today is another day that I've sobbed like a baby. Upon waking up for work, I checked my phone like I always do. Waiting for me was a PayPal notification. A large one. I checked my Bricklink account, and it appears that some blessed soul has decided that they needed some Steam Rollers in their life. Yes, some Steam Rollers. All of them. 27 to be exact. Gone. Purchased by an unknown person. A risk taker. A gambler. A guardian angel, perhaps? I began this saga with over 50 of those Steam Rollers. I'd sell one here, one there through multiple platforms, slowly chipping away at that number. I whittled it down to 27. Now I have 0. They are gone. The purchase price was just a shade over $1k. I'll make a few bucks on each one after the usual fees and shipping, but that's not the point in this circumstance. The nightmare is finally over. March 30, 2018 is my Independance Day.

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Uh, beg to differ. Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is by far the most compelling character since the OT (including Legends, television, and new canon).