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I spent this morning building a pirate scene by combining some baseplates, three pirate sets (6253 – Shipwreck Hideout, 70412 – Soldiers Fort and 70413 – The Brick Bounty) and some mini-builds from the Fun at Beach set (60153). The letters that spell Dad were a Father’s Day present from my daughter. The build was a family affair with my son choosing a spot for the shipwreck set, my daughter placing the fort set and my wife suggesting the colors for the wave MOC for The Brick Bounty. The artwork on the boxes was a huge help for set placement - what part of each set goes on land and what goes into the water. For the waves MOC I opened the 10697 Large Creative Box I have been saving. I made a place for the back of the ship to rest on and an opening for the rudder. The Brick Bounty must be careful in the area because one ship has already gone down! While building it I saw the shark from one of the sets and my mind wandered to a scene in The Lego Movie, “There were sharks, laser sharks and then there were more sharks!”

While this is a perk of owning your own business, you will soon figure out that owning your own business is a prison with no walls. At some point, you will have to answer to employees or customers and kiss their asses for your own well being. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown...

So a story filled with species from all over the universe, working together to defeat the evil empire wasn't diverse enough? So we rejected all alien races and become "more diverse" by going with humanoids that are different... color? Star Wars was already the most diverse story franchise in history. Even more so than Star Trek which would feature one or two alien races / movie or episode. As for Marvel, that's not going to happen. They did what Star Wars should have done - they planned out their story arc four years ago and announced the plan. Star Wars are one-off movies sold as a trilogy. There is no story arc. There is no character development. All you are left with is an agenda sold under the banner "Star Wars". What we actually have been left with is men who are egotistical, misogynistic, dead beat, lazy, cowardly and worthless. No wonder the Star Wars universe is about women's supremacy, the guys are ALL worthless. The one woman in the empire is completely useless too. Phasma was promoted as some sort of female warrior. I now call her "Kenny" (as in South Park). Marvel is sticking to their plot line. And before everyone starts screaming "Captain Marvel is now a women," Captain Marvel has been a woman. That is not new. Marvel has great writing, characters, cinematography, etc. It is engaging. The opening scene in TLJ where Luke chucks his father's light saber (last seen when his right hand was cut off by his father - and just before he found out that Vader WAS his father) over his shoulder is the perfect symbol for what Disney has done with everything we knew and loved about Star Wars. I mean seriously, if they just wanted the name to do what ever they wanted, why didn't they go the bogus bricks route and call it "STAR PLAN". Mark my words, "Star Wars" will become a by-word (much like "jumping the shark") for when a studio ruins a franchise with an agenda other than telling the story. And Disney will be to blame unless they throw Kathleen Kennedy under the bus hard.

I built Lady Liberty last night. She’s a fun build and a very nice model. I plan on doing a facelift this weekend. Bag 1 Bag 2 Bag 3 Bag 4 Bag 5 - Finished

Amen. Very true.

The Arrival by Grantmasters

41300 puppy championship

And the circle is now complete. The entertainment factor has been stupendous.

Mission accomplished. I plan on renting Solo and the final trilogy move at the Redbox, that is the absolute least I can pay and still stay on the legal side of seeing the movies. I'm not going to a theater anymore to have to choke down another turd burger.

Did you arm sweep? I would have.

I heard the mop was off today. Haven't been to a Cali beach in awhile but back home in FL and I wouldn't want to clean on a day like this either.

Well, maybe those who still run a business after the first year. Lots don´t know what they are doing and/or have no luck and the business goes down the plug like the bubble bath. For me the Xmas spike of BTC was similar to that of Gingerbread House - it went up a lot and quickly but no one could really explain why. Eventually we found the reason and the price settled back down again in both cases. Both BTC and GBH are still overvalued in my opinion but those who get them for next to nothing are still happy.

I see where you’re coming and why you probably liked TLJ. My take is that Rian Johnson is not skilled enough to pull off what was attempted: a post-modern take down of Star Wars. When Luke tosses his light saber away in Return of Jedi it was an earned moment for the character and the audience. When he tosses it in TLJ it’s cheap and for comedic effect. It’s not earned and pulled me out of the movie.

Travel Agency, Antique Shop and Apartments by bricksandtiles

That rug really tied the room together, did it not? And this guy peed on it.

It's called the Disney "This is the only cool scene in the movie and we're going to milk it" tax.

I’m starting to wonder if it’s like one person suggested- he has a number of these and is using other listings to drop ship and return his stock to amazon. Risk free. Storage fee free. Sellers fee free. That’s about 25% more take home.

so update of the WH scheme : 1 return came back pristine and untouched. ( still have to do a weight test ) 1 return came back with the seals cut but otherwise looks complete ( haven't inventoried the bags yet 0 1 return still on the way back .

No, this guy...

This guy?

I assume you have reported this reply to EBay and the police?

His response was oddly satisfying

The summarize Scatt's comments, the long and short of it is that there's usually more profit in Used lots.... IF, and only if, you don't pay yourself an hourly wage for the time taken to sort and build and photo and unbuild before the sale. If you break that time down, you're making pennies on the hour, which is why a lot of the aforementioned folks steer well clear of Used bulk. If you're enjoying the therapeutic qualities of sorting bricks, and the genuine satisfaction of making a set 0% complete to 100% complete, Used lots are for you. Highly advise starting small though.... 19lbs is a nice bite size lot. But 3 or 4 of those without some solid time put in to process them, and you'll be in the 'too intimidating to even start' boat. 100+ pounds of loose lego bricks is not approachable without a very practiced, and established system in place.

I don't believe it will work like that. Amazon currently collects sales tax for all sales going to WA and PA (and soon for OK). The seller does not get to keep those funds but a reverse entry is immediately made and Amazon is the one to hold onto the funds and then remit them. In turn Amazon gets to keep a cut of those taxes from these states for doing the legwork. I believe this is how it will continue on Amazon as more and more states get added (it will be many years before all states pass their own laws regarding this). As for ebay and the other platforms I believe they will follow suit as it is a good source of income. I don't think a whole lot will change in the next few years but the thing to focus on for this year on Amazon is if the taxes collected for WA, PA and OK sales appears in the gross on the 1099 (in which case we need to back it out so we don;t pay taxes on that amount). Nobody has been able to get an answer yet from Amazon on this.

This is a perfect example of the MANY clever things Rian Johnson did with this movie that go completely unnoticed because people were so enraged by everything uncomfortable going on. The movie was not perfect, but it was daring, thoughtful, artistic as hell, and clever. People hated on JJ for being formulaic, and then they hated on Rian for burning it down and building it up again in a different way.

The major problem I see with the new STAR WARS movies is that there are just too many in a short period of time. George Lucas used to make people wait three years and even if he produced a crappy movie, fans would still love it. These new movies are better than the "prequels" IMO, yet get trashed. They are not perfect, but people are spoiled and overdosing on STAR WARS and becoming apathetic about the whole franchise. A time out is necessary...

He has that "I'm in my suit and I have to poop!" face.

While I was utterly disappointed by TLJ, Yoda did not burn the texts. Yoda says to Luke "“Wisdom they held, but that library contained nothing that the girl Rey does not already possess.” At the end of the movie you see a drawer open full of the books, and reveals that Rey stole all the books and stashed them on the Falcon. So Yoda was being literal that Rey had what was in the library.

Interesting read... http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/06/21/disney-disaster-star-wars-spinoffs-on-hold/

As crappy as they were, I'm going to miss them. They were a big part of my childhood and my kids loved it when I took them there...even when I didn't buy them anything. haha

Hmm. Somebody has been watching too many youtube videos made by triggered white males.

I don't see it happening. Disney is so corrupted that even if they fired Kennedy they would replace her with another, more extreme feminazi. If anything the failure of Solo most likely will push them to go more extreme with the SJW agenda in the next series. We'll have transgender, mutant purple haired chicks wielding light sabers and force chocking classic male hero archetypes into submission only to self-sacrifice themselves for the greater good of woman-kind. The self-destructive current that ran throughout The Last Jedi was disturbing.

The White Stag by Patrick Biggs

Actual photos, all his listing pictures were taken on the same table. Even made the effort to take pictures from all different angles and sides. Everything checked out. All the guy had to do was put it into a box and the transaction would have been favorable. Hand written address label taped on. Guy just has no idea what he is doing, and he has sold a few other Lego sets when checking his "sold" history, so I assume he will have similar issues. If I didn't already have a copy opened for myself I would probably keep it, but for future resale the nice box that was pictured would have been preferable.

His feedback is 1, so a new seller. I informed them that on the 21st I will need to get eBay to settle the case as we were unable to come to a resolution. The response back was "SALE IS FINAL!". I'm just going to let him believe "no returns" means "no returns", and look forward to the response I get when eBay provides me a shipping label and a refund out of his pocket.

Hehe

Not Lego but my son wanted to do the Kinetic Foam gift he got for his birthday. I tried my best and this was the result. Lesson learned: Don't buy Kinetic Foam as a gift unless you hate the parents. LOL We both laughed so hard with the end result even though we were frustrated while doing it.

I spent the day with my favorite mini-fig building the Palace Cinema in these sweet new matching shirts!

New book promo... it's absolutely fabulous. This and the snowglobe are easily my two favorite promo sets of all time. Sent from my SM-G935V using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

Chain Tree by Tim Schwalfenberg

decided to run a report to see how much I've shipped there and just in last year 156 orders for 46k , so yeah it's safe.

Andy's Room by Matt De Lanoy

Micro Cottages by Full Plate

Lord of the Rings "Weathertop" by Sanel Lukovic

Dagobah by Sanel Lukovic

Shire seasons festival by Damien GAMET

Winter Landscape by Full Plate

Master Wu's Rice Plantation by Anu Pehrson