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We know it’s going to be a long quarantine. What if they stop making porn . . . I’ve WATCHED IT ALL!

Continuing (and finishing) my lengthy Toycentric story from page 223, I just got off the phone with PayPal's dispute department. As I've preached time and time again on here, don't let these jackholes get away with this crap. I refused to give Paypal a dime all this time, waiting in vain for a response from corporate, only to get a collections notice in the mail last week. I called those nice people and they filed it as a refusal to pay (the guy really was nice, just fulfilling a function) and suggested I wait a few days before contacting PayPal again to try and work something out. So I called and after fighting with the horrible phone tree a few minutes, got a real person, working from home. I said "Bear with me, I'm going to throw a lot of information at you" - and proceeded for about 15 minutes to give every little detail of my story. He was familiar with and despised drop shippers in general, and when it was all done said "We're just going to file an appeal on this" and went silent for a couple minutes and then said "OK, hopefully you don't run into anybody like that again." I asked how the appeal process worked, what the time frame for a decision was, etc... and he said "I took care of it... you should see the funds in your account in about 30 minutes". Damn. Customer service endures, hiding in very small pockets here and there, fighting like a guerilla strike team... ok I'm tired sorry. So once again I strongly urge you all to stand up for what you know is right. Sure some of you more business minded people may decide you don't have time for what I've done, but for the small-timers who think they have to take it lying down... nope. Just keep on fighting the good fight. eBay beat me once but I'm about 4-1 with them and now 1-0 with PayPal. And may Toycentric forever burn in reseller hell, buried in 6 trillion tons of Joker Steamrollers...

amazon has LEGO Creator 10232 Palace Cinema available for $134 and Dead lets see if it ships- prob found in some dark corner of a warehouse.

That's what she said!

I find children need to be taught humor through trust.

Got mine today, never received any shipping notification tho. Just shown up on the porch caught by my doorbell. Shipped in Lego box, promo included, everything looks good

Lot's of blame to go around. Trump and his golfing pisses me off. He used to rail about Obama doing the same. Obviously, he screwed up, but so did many of the people who were supposed to be watching this sort of thing. A few noticed for sure, but were ignored or shut down for fear of scaring people and shaking up the economy. Democrats were too busy worrying about impeaching him. The cable news networks didn't care either, more worried about gotcha moments about Trump. The hoax thing was taken out of context, but he doesn't help himself with the way he babbles at times. I think he was right about China for years and now maybe people will correct that. Other countries have their own issues and many have handling it no better than us. I realize the USA sets the tone, but things were running pretty smoothly until the virus hit. A lot of these shortages are on individual state and local governments/hospitals. Most had no idea this was coming. Some states and countries seem to be handling this well at the moment, with a good mix of testing and smart social distancing. The solution though, has to be an economic one as well. People have to return to work and we must figure out a way to do this safely and quickly. Moving forward, blaming people and fear porn will not help. The US task force has been upping their game and even Trump has handled himself a little better. If the news media would just give him a break for a couple of months, maybe he will return the favor. I am starting to see where the rich, influential and powerful are taking advantage of the situation. They act like they care and in the meantime making money off of regular Americans. It's easy for these people on TV to go out there and tell people to stay home when they get paid the same. I am tired of the news and don't really watch it anymore. I can't. They are trying to control me and everyone else. I will puke if I hear talk about another "model." We will get thru this. May will be a much better month.

Got my California sets today, all 3 in one box that was just oversized enough to take the beatings and leave the sets unharmed. Included the Easter egg promo. I'm on the west coast and ordered immediately after the Brick Picker availability post by lazuli16

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I seem to have answered my own question in the short term. If I add the stuff to my cart, go to checkout, THEN Login during the checkout process, the promos show up. If I add stuff to my cart while I am already logged in, they don't show up. No idea if they would ship anyway. But weird.

The name is Bond...James Bond. Message me if you would like the IO files. Top to bottom: Sean Connery - White tux with rose and Walther PPK (Goldfinger) George Lazenby - Highland kilt and Martini glass (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) Roger Moore - Navy blazer and Walther PPK (The Spy Who Loved Me) Timothy Dalton - Black jumpsuit and parachute (The Living Daylights) Pierce Brosnan - Grey suit and silenced Walther PP9 (Tomorrow Never Dies) Daniel Craig - Navy suit and UMP-9 assault rifle (Casino Royale)

https://www.instagram.com/legomastersfox/?hl=en Has some minibuilds and other videos

So maybe I missed this somewhere - But if I am NOT logged in to my LEGO Account/VIP rewards, the Easter promos show up in the cart. If I *AM* logged in, the promos do not show up in the cart, I had received them previously with an order I placed in March. Did they start limiting VIP's to only one promo at some point or something?

unless I'm just bad at searching, I can't believe that there doesn't seem to be ANY supplemental content for this show. Why not have tons of photos of every build on the website? Why not have a bunch of extra behind the scenes clips available? Seems like they are missing a huge opportunity to feed the flames of this shows popularity.

Got my order from Legoland CA today. It included the Easter egg promo.

take my money

Who watches the Watchmen? Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre, Comedian, and Nite Owl from the book. Hooded Justice, Sister Night, Looking Glass, and Red Scare from the TV show. Message me if you would like the IO files.

May be a good deal...may not ship...who knows... But the Easter Egg was loading with them also.... https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/clone-scout-walker-20th-anniversary-edition-75261

I wanted to create a new thread in order to give progress on my site updates. I want explain a bit on what happened and what I am doing. What happened with the site? Honestly nothing really exciting or dramatic, overall in the end, I did not want to support the host I was with for the past four years after not really offering too much help with managed servers. They would spend 30 seconds looking, say they can ping the server so its up and then just say, "hey not my problem". I was on aging hardware, paying the same amount of money, so I took the opportunity to move to a new host with better/faster hardware and a staff that does help to support you when run into an issue that you can't handle on your own. I have been doing this a long time and pretty good monitoring and handling 99% of what comes my way, but there are issues that you need the next level up to help figure out what to do. I wasn't getting anything like that, but paying for it. Not anymore. What my goal is... I know more than anyone that the site needed some TLC. It's been a while since I have done any drastic updates, the site looked tired and I know the site can be so much better than what it's current state was. LEGO investing has changed since Ed and I launched the site and it's time to remove the dead content and bring more of what people are looking for. Below is the short term list of items planned for updating. I have been working on the nightly, just like the early days and enjoying seeing parts of it coming to life. Fix the login. This has been messed up and quirky for a while. This has been resolved and working well. It's a simple thing overall, but nice that it actually works how it's supposed to Overall price guide site design update. The site was tired and disjointed. I hated it and pained me to look at it. Time to start over. Brickfolio update. All the Brickfolio data is safe. I have close to three million rows of data for Brickfolio entries. Time to bring this thing to 2020. I will probably create another thread at some point to solicit some feedback on some new requests for the brickfolio Fix the data syncing with Brickset. A lot of people used this feature, but it's time to make it work the way it should. Later I will work on the content portions. The news and blogs. I have some good ideas for this, but want to get the price guide and brickfolio to you sooner than later. What I am asking for if possible... If you can, please stop asking where the brickfolio is. Again, the data is safe and I am working as fast as I can to bring it all back to you. It won't be a few days, but more like a few weeks, but it will be worth it. I setup my dev environment to push releases quick and easy. I want to create a true changelog so that you can follow updates to see what was done/fixed/new/removed, you know like what real software companies do. I really do appreciate your patience with this. It wasn't planned, but if there was going to be a time to do it, it was going to be now.

ermahgerd! It's happening!

The Jedi Temple on Coruscant

Oh don't you worry. Even in times of crisis there will always be more. Best to start using the other hand there, Quagmire.

I wish there was some good data on CV contagiousness of asymptomatics The majority wouldn't need testing if we knew some basic facts about it. If we knew that the contagious period is 2 weeks, then anyone who has been in self quarantine (serious shelter-in-place) for 3 weeks should be clear no matter what.

Same here. They boxed it in a very interesting way using two Lego shipping boxes with one flipped over, where it creates a little protected box space for the promo. Thought it was clever.

Rick & Morty (with Portal Gun and Plumbus). Message me if you would like the IO files.

https://phobia.wikia.org/wiki/Kalampokiphobia ... oh wait, you said porn ....

man sign me up for some fear porn, that sounds exciting...

While I cannot say I helped Eastern Europe during the Cold war, I can tell you I had the pleasure to meet people who helped fight the good fight. All of my grandparents were from the Lodz area in Poland and they often would welcome Polish priests and friends into their homes when they were allowed to come into the US. This was in the early 1970s. I grew up listening to Polish when around them and their visitors would tell me stories of how any mail and care packages my grandparents would send would be ripped open and stuff stolen from them by some Communist hack or were beat up for speaking their minds. They had very little freedom and loved the United States. They continued to fight Communism on a daily basis and I am proud to have known them. As for me, I was a kid who was very pro USA. I knew all the military facts and figures for the USA and USSR. I could tell you about tank counts and missile load outs on Migs. It was important for me as a child that the USA would prevail. Today's kids and young adults do not fear invasion or nuclear war like we did in the 1950s-70s, so maybe it's hard for some to relate. I grew up listening to the Charlie Daniels Band singing, "In America." Many American families(Including ours) have lost family members while defending freedom. So when I am a little defensive of our country, please forgive me. I realize there were many, many people before me who sacrificed a lot more than I to bring freedom around the world and they deserve some respect. Are we perfect as a country, no, but at least we try to do the right things. Good luck...

LOL placed 3 orders with 2 each and a DC minifig to get both easter promos, all went through. Now all my clone walkers suddenly "waiting on stock"... at least I grabbed a DC mini, so hopefully promos ship. Clone Walker still currently says available though.

They had video games back then?

I was just trying to lighten up the mood by referencing a video game that was popular back in my youth , maybe I am getting too old or just as my kids would say ; not funny

I sent an email to support regarding my CA purchase and they got back to me fairly quickly with this: Hello, Thank you for reaching out to us. We apologize for the confusion the website caused, we are working in fixing those little issues, but we can assure you, you did purchase the product . Your order is currently being processed and we do not have a tracking number available for you just yet. We will be more than happy to provide to you as soon as we get it. We apologize for the delay in shipping our team is working as fast as they possibly can to fulfill all orders so we appreciate your patience. Thank you and stay safe!

^update: buyer replied and cancelled, so that was that. Also, the price crashed by $50 after I posted; must be a "coincidence"

LEGOLAND® Park - 40346 is back in stock at LL FL for $65. https://shop-florida.legoland.com/collections/deal-of-the-week/products/exclusive-legoland®-park

On that basis you should thank the French. You would be speaking proper English without them.

Beef. 🤪

If it was me, I wouldn’t have led with Angry Birds.

Well shoot, there goes my stimulus check.

It’s times like these that I like to think about what leaders of the past said and did with the time and influence they had. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John Kennedy, John Lennon. They and many other true heroes gave their lives to do what was right and just, and for all people not just a few well connected members of any particular elite circle. I think the charts presented in this particular article present what has come and why I and many others feel so betrayed, and find it hard to be proud of the current USA, no matter who happens to be in the White House today or tomorrow. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/opinion/coronavirus-us-economy-inequality.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

My state has a critical shortage of reagent so they are only testing the ill which will skew data. A known positive case can’t even get his symptomatic wife tested as it is just assumed she has it. They ordered 5K of the tests pictured but they are serological immunoglobulin POC tests and the FDA froze delivery from Ohio until an emergency waiver was granted as they are not approved. They were checked in last Friday and validated Sunday. Monday of this week they did a drive thru for exposed HCW and first responders and all tests results were negative. Not sure how much money was wasted on them.

Stuff I’ve been watching has definitely slowed down in the last few days. Lower virus counts easing the panic buying maybe.