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Had a nice MLK day negotiating bulk transaction with exporter on eBay yesterday: 9x 10816 My First Cars & Trucks - $40/each - $11/buy in 9x 21146 Skeleton Attack - $80/each - $25/buy in 5x 21144 Farm Cottage - $120/each - $32/buy in 1x 41067 Belle's Castle - $105 - $0/buy in after Kmart SYW points +$36 shipping via FedEx

Hearing sales are flat in Antarctica. Can our friends in Bolivia check in for weekly update and tell this guy how things are going in S America? We need some reassurance one of most popular sets ever made isn't going to turn into a free giveaway in the next 15 days.

Shhhh....daddy needs a wooden minifigure!

I don't trust any of these recent ghost restocks.

I may have mentioned this before - they heavily courted the SoCal AFOLs then passed over all the folks with LEGO talent and went with personalities that would make good TV. So don’t expect the show to be about amazing MOCs or build technique. It’s about competition and drama. And a smashed LEGO creation or two. Interestingly, Jamie Berard is one of the judges (see interview on BrickSet) and he is one of the uber-talented formerly AFOL now Master Builder and also has a great personality. I do know a couple of the contestants (I don’t know who won though) so I will definitely be watching. Should be pretty entertaining.

https://www.promobricks.de/lego-train-40370-eisenbahn/92774/

Wooden minifig is back..

Yeah, I know one couple courted but ultimately passed over. Good for the camera, but their backstory would've been boring. If they won, money for kids' college, blah-blah-blah. No disabilities, no diseases, not victims, and they get along with each other and everyone else. Too boring and likable and they would have liked everybody else and been happy with the free trip to California if they got eliminated on Day 1. And I mean all of that in the nicest way. Just not a made-for-TV couple, and that's a good thing.

It's the Lego 'This is going to be a very popular set' tax.

I wonder if LEGO will have some advertising on the show for their newly acquired website to buy LEGO parts. Although AFOLs who may already know about Bricklink will tune in, I am assuming many people will watch who just like LEGO in general and have no idea about Bricklink's existence. The show will feature different challenges and have a lot of use of random parts I'm guessing, so it would make sense that people who are watching might be like, "I'd love to build stuff like this but how do I just buy parts I want and not whole sets?"

Thought I found great deals on all kinds of figs at the albuquerque comiccon. Three vendors with huge inventories, all were knock offs. Very disappointing. Each vendor referred to them as custom. I did get Carl weather's signature though for 60 dollar daily deal.

What I am implying is, relax. You made good decision loading up on this one. No need to F5 SAH every 10 min. Just move on to the next set and enjoy the ride into orbit (see what I did there) when retailer stock poofs. Love you not Tabby. Mr. Salt

In stock at amazon in N America for rrp. ebay prices also around rrp. Sold out at lego, target, & walmart.

A friend of mine was telling me why he loves The Great British Bake Off, and this was basically it. No drama, contestants rooting for one another, honest competition.

translation from the articel to solve the mystery: "If the locomotive looks a little familiar to you, no wonder. It is the locomotive from the LEGO Railway Set 7810. The set was released in 1980 and consists of 97 individual parts and a minifigure. The Danish toy manufacturer appears to be celebrating the 40th anniversary of this set with this addition. We don't know exactly why this set was selected, because in 1980 there were a total of 28 LEGO railway sets. Perhaps one reason could be that this locomotive was probably the only one in the year that had to do without railway doors."

For whatever reason, the "Reality" shows in the US are always heavily edited for maximum drama. I stopped watching after a while because the formula got to be too repetitive. I think the US TV execs think we are too stupid that we cannot appreciate a honest competition without any drama. For example, compare the UK vs US versions of Kitchen Nightmare. In the UK version Gordon Ramsey actually concerned about the wellbeing of the restaurant owners there and he gave good advice per their situations. In the US version, it was all about yelling and screaming to each other.

What is the conclusion? The nerds will pay more for fewer bricks ???

It feels a little arbitrary indeed. 1966 was the year the first moving train models were introduced(hence the 50 years on track set). The best I can find about 1980 is that there were several key changes introduced to the pre-existing train lineup, such as: - the switch to grey track (but not yet the premolded kind) - the train motor module got its final form - the magnet/buffer beam combination part was introduced - I believe it also marked the introduction of remote controlled points and lights On the other hand, the system was still 12V/4.5V and the change to 9V hadn't happened yet (this happened in 1991, just like the switch to premolded track). Guess we will get a 30yr 9V celebration next year? ;-)

Trains never run to timetable.

How does the timeline fit in with the 2016 set 50 Years On Track

Sounds like a GWP. Looks great.

Why not just go to the instructions and inventory bag 12 per? page 403 That's what I normally do anyway. Love my Amazon returns!

I feel like competition shows are grouped into one of the few formats: - You got your group of contestants that are put into fabricated drama situations and then are systematically eliminated as the season progresses. (Survivor, the Bachelor, Temptation Island, etc..) -You got your group of individuals that exhibit a talent and are judged to move on into the season. (America's Got Talent, Dancing With the stars, Masked Singer) - You got your direct competition scenarios where where you have a task and judges pick the best of each task. (Chopped, most cooking competition shows) There are probably some others but these are the ones I see all the time and get bored with them. I would like to see Lego Master closer to that ScyFy show Face Off where they had skilled make-up artists create scenes and costumes. This follows a little of the second and third formats I mentioned. I'd also like to see it something like Chopped where they are given a set number and style of pieces and they have to create objects in a given time allotment. What I don't really like is spending way too much time on contestant backstory which I feel manipulates the viewer into loving certain creators and rooting for them instead of focusing on the actual creations. And I also love Will Arnet but if the show is going to be him making quips every 30 seconds then it might be a turn off after a while.

Sounds like that is more likely a 5-finger discount.

Yep. Last year, I met up with a gal to buy a SOLO Millennium Falcon. Asked if anything else I wanted, because "she could get any currently available set at Walmart" and sell for 50% off. Said her boyfriend or son worked there and got a great employee discount.

Getting worried this show will be following the same tired format of reality competition shows...just with Lego. If this is going to be like every other singing, talent, cooking, dancing, ect... competition show, then I might just end up watching YouTube highlights. Shame because it could be fun to watch if they can come up with something worth watching.

usually when no one responds to a good question it means no one here knows the answer LEGO has been doing some wacky distribution stuff w/ BHz: started off with SDCC ultra exclusives, then for a couple of years flooded the market where folks were seeing BHz even in dollar store, then retirement of the whole line rumors, had super short runs (mouse couple), special numbered exclusives w/ retail giants: Walmart and Target, currently experimenting with seasonals, and now become super selective on licensed source material: Star Wars and Disney. so really no clue on the recent Disney BHz sets. They look great and I doubt LEGO will flood the market again so if you like em...get em.

Sounds to me that it's more of a play to cater to an immensely large customer base with product that exhibits them in as positive way as possible. Not so much for appealing to the customers but to their government. Play nice or be struck by the banhammer.