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Built the UCS Death Star 75159 to add to my UCS wall. Coupled it with a WickedBrick display, but unfortunately the depth was too much for my shelving space so the minifigure display had to go to the left. I may readjust how to display the minis later. Fun build overall though!

With 3 kids under 4 years old I'm not brave enough to go out anywhere. Lots of goodies on eBay and Mercari though. Ghost, with black hair Kanan and Zen. Not sure if everything else is complete, but I'd consider it a good deal.

I will add that some BN locations still have Ideas Treehouses...I recently did a curbside, contactless pickup of two.

My local Kroger did their semi-annual toy markdown to 70% off and I hit it pretty hard.

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.

And gone! That was quick.

Lol, I cheat and have Google translate the page

Club Jouet has 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City for $399 Canadian and ships to the US for $29 (CAD) for a total price of $305 USD after currency conversion. https://www.clubjouet.com/fiche-produit.asp?item=80075222

Not “real” deal but possibly covid deals. $179 for Voltron MSRP at B&N. Trending $240ish on eBay https://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/toys-games-lego-ideas-21311-voltron/34549365 $399 for hogwarts castle MSRP at Walmart in stock may 12th trending at $600ish on eBay (POOF ON THIS ONE) http://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Harry-Potter-Hogwarts-Castle-71043-Building-Kit-6020-Pieces/335596985

There's a few a day, and they sell pretty quick. Within a few hours.

I appreciate the concern...[emoji23] I have no words. Nothing against Love. Seems like a good kid and solid prospect, but it doesn’t make any sense to take that player in that spot, and to trade up to do it. Nobody in front of the Packers between 26-29 were taking a QB. One game away from the Super Bowl last year and they take a player that won’t see the field for at least 2-3 years is nuts. Queen should have been the pick there since all of the top tier WR were already gone. Then to top it off, the player I was hoping they’d get goes to our hated rival, Minnesota, at 22. Ugh. Rant over.

I *really* wanted that tree. Never could find instructions for it tho.

same here. Thankfully, apart from the minifig, the parts for the tree look to be common and ~$70. I think I'll go that route if I want to build one.

Is this based on a cartoon series? This is clearly a retelling of Journey to the West story with Sun Wukong / Monkey King. I like the overall design but I am a fan of the story and most of its incarnations This line clearly took a lot of inspirations from Chima and Nexo Knights

It’s alway a pleasure building the 10175 UCS Vader Tie from 2006. It is starting to look dated but still a nice looking set. It’s been nearly 7 years since I built my first 10175. The 1st pic is from 2013. It was a nice pickup then at $85 w/ the manual. Only needed some elements that were bricklinked for less than $8 with postage. This pic is from today. This set came with the box & manual. Picked it up 2 years ago at a nice price. forgot the exact price and will need to look it up. Much better quality of bricks (far less yellowish ones including the rare round cockpit cover) than my original.

We built 75230 The Porg over the weekend. Not the best build but the kids liked it In between games of Battleship and Uno.