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10257 Carousel $129.99 @ Amazon (Frustration-Free) as of 3:30AM PT on 9/15/11: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072MHYHXJ/

@Ed Mack and both sets' box sure do impress.

I think the box is beautiful and wouldn't change it. Like Val-E said, it's part of the appeal. The LEGO Group certainly doesn't care about making resellers happy. The box of these two big bad boys are meant to impress, plain and simple.

more recently, frustration free means it comes in its own outer cardboard carton . i ordered enough where its not going to make sense to ship it one at a time if it is indeed label slappin' time. now can we get a riddle to confirm we ain't sending our money on vacation? though at this price there is always the holiday quick flip for $5.

The packaging is part of the buyer experience and the bigger the better as it gives them the sensation of getting a lot for a lot of money. This set is arguably a bigger step up in build and accuracy from 10030 than 75192 was from 10179 and I am pretty sure the hard core fans will want both it and 10030. It´s not cheap but represents better value than the Death Star or SSD, for instance.

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Just woke up. I think I need to start looking for a job on the East Coast...

yup. back to $199.99 in less than 20 mins.

Sale price has been changing back and forth from $129.99 and $177.20 for "frustration free packaging" price. The standard packaging price remains at $199.99. I just checked again and it appears both packaging prices are $199.99. Has a good chance to change again.

Damn bro, that's harsh!

Micro Cinderella's Castle. For us west coasters that missed out on 71040 at 40% off yesterday. Instructions available here for $3.50 - https://gumroad.com/Benbuildslego#pJgg

I sold a PS 10218 at the weekend and didn´t lose money, so all good!

I work via specific scenarios that I plan beforehand. I sold about 75% of my holdings untill the 2017 peak and bought most of it back at a lower price in 2018. Still have considerable holdings, but used most of my fiat winnings to buy plastic bricks and most importantly an actual brick building to live in. Used most of my knowledge to get a master degree and managed to get my graduation thesis on bitcoin mining published in a peer reviewed journal last year. I believe blockchain is about more than just some speculation so will stay invested in it. I think it is the next iteration of the internet. Of my total assets it is about 25% now, but that is down from about 95% in 2017 since I started with almost nothing. As a new entrant I would recommend people to never invest what they cannot miss and even then not more than 10% of their assets. I'm a risk taker so I'll go for 25%

It seems so, indeed I think it will slow down a bit and go higher at the end of the year. You're still in?

I managed to catch a lot of the upside by just having clear targets like selling certain percentages of my portfolio at specific times. Still have a lot of crypto, but used that money to pay of the mortgage and have a nice financial buffer. Lot of people did not sell and complain to me now that they were up 1000% but now down 30%. I told them so at the time, but they were too greedy

Having lived through the 2014-2015 downward spiral, I feel like crypto is just in a period of flushing out the dumb money. I think an uptick by the end of this year is likely and a real boom a year later is possible. Last time there was a crypto winter, people were saying it was never going to recover. Looking at the hashrate, I could see the bitcoin network was still growing, so someone was investing in machines. You can see the same uptick in hashrate now: https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate I actually really went deep into this and used this situation for my Master dissertation. After getting my master, I edited it and got it published in a academic journal. I calculated how much money was invested between 2012 and 2016 and found that mining is a super risky market. In that sense, a downturn every once in a while is needed.

I'm still heavily invested in crypto and play the highs and lows now. It is a pretty good market when you cash out a part at high in the 3000-3800 range and buy in at a low again. Lately I'm doing much better at the stock market. Lego is still way more fun, though