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Resellers 🤦‍♂️ An embarrassment to the hobby. Got for it bro and I hope you get banned in the process.

I needed something to do for half an hour and watched PotC Curse of the Black Pearl so I built the renegade runner again before I start on the Pearl. Quick little build and I like the finished result because of how great the large sail looks.

I decided to dig out another Town Hall I got in a bulk lot to finish as well. A few missing pieces here and there but all the minifigures are accounted for.

What a lovely waterfall -- SQUIRREL! by Adam Dodge

This is why people hate resellers.

It’s your favorite because it is by far the most awesome, no question.

Daitarn III by Marco De Bon

I wonder if this is only for international shipments that are done through methods other than GSP. With GSP, Ebay is already getting an extra cut thanks to additional charges for the buyer. Of course, if you're right, then I will be turning that off, too.

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.

Personally, I would just flip it on Ebay and put in the description that the box has shelf wear. These are going for $360+, so you wouldn't make a ton, but it would likely be more than you would get from Lego customer service. And you would stay off their radar (see the other thread about the person who was recently banned).

This is my favorite set out of all of them.

Street racers' haunt by Faber Mandragore

WatchinOut by Peeters Kevin

I used to buy big set boxes on ebay, but for some reason sellers dont stock them anymore. I ran out at start of the year and bought from the below place: https://www.lilpackaging.com/products/g30 The g30 box 60 x 45 x 15 cm is big enough to fit sets like Saturn 5 / voltron etc. Dont have destiny bounty (I thought it wouldn't do good, bad mistake not buying when it was £50 at argos). It is single walled cardboard, but to be honest, I've never had any buyers complaining about issues with damage to sets etc. I bought 25 boxes and it end up costing me about £2.66 per box, very expensive. You used to be able to buy same boxes for about £1.20 to £1.50 each, but I cant find any sellers in UK that stock them anymore for that price. You can bring cost down if you order more quantity, but my wife already has a go at me for having so many boxes lying around the house. I just re-order when I get low stock.

Just to circle back , I completed the set this week. If you've built the 10030, this is a very different experience. The skeleton and superstructure are a very different build than the past one and the greebling, while intense at times, is no where near as repetitive feeling as it was before. While the complexity and updates to the ship are very impressive and worthwhile, I do have two major complaints. The first is the ball joints used to connect the body sheets to the frame. The very tip of the prow uses 2x2 plates with a ball joint to connect the 4 surfaces to the skeleton. These ball joints are super strong, far stronger then the plate to plate connection. Multiple times when I would try to clip the nose down, the ball joint would connect and the plate would pop off. And at that angle and spacing, it's impossible to reattach, so I would have to take the plate off and try again. Rock solid once attached, but a pain in the butt to get it on at times. Second, and maybe greater complaint, is the integrated stand. It's trash. Every other UCS set has a rock solid technic frame that is absolutely bomber. This set has a base made of two layers of plates, and the technic girders are connected by 4 studs and a pair of 1x2 plates with arms. Pathetic. The stand would shear apart at an angle constantly. I may rebuild the base using the 10030 design and attach the girders and be done with it. Those complaints aside, it's a pretty awesome set. The original ISD was commanding in it's size. This new one is just as commanding and more detailed.

A few days late on this... 4th Ideas Submission to Achieve Support for Fall 2020: Brickwest Studios by Bricky_Brick https://ideas.lego.com/projects/e5febd03-3515-4cab-a5df-3dc3a922e8b5 Achieved support on May 20, 2020. Submitted on April 22, 2020 (less than 30 days to achieve support) 44th (!) submission by Bricky_Brick. This set had 9000 supporters just four days prior to achieving support. Bricky_Brick should be familiar to Ideas buyers - this is the 4th set created by them to achieve support. Other successful submissions are: The Train Station: Studgate (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/8345a6f7-adf4-4864-bae0-540717177c84) - currently under review; History Museum (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ab298157-e1fa-4e71-8def-a2238a9bac4a) - which was not approved; and Pirates of Barracuda Bay (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/fcf1dec0-bdf7-48c7-9da7-95fd68e41480), currently on shelves. Bricky_Brick has 20 other projects currently on Ideas, including another one in the top 75% (The Bakery https://ideas.lego.com/projects/ae9fdefd-bf7d-47d1-a3bc-71bf25a1eeed currently at 7928) Currently, there are: 2984 active sets 15 sets with more than 75% support 10 of those 15 sets are Staff Picks 5 of those 15 sets are 3rd Party IP 10 of those 15 sets are original ideas 3 sets at more than 90% support (House from Up @ 9967, Animal Crossing New Horizons: Nook's Cranny @ 9284 and Mining Site @ 9190) Most recently posted is Animal Crossing New Horizons: Nook's Cranny (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/7268ebc2-160d-4480-8b47-6fa68fa5564a) which was below 75% at the last update (6 days ago). On the bubble: Mining Site (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/86dd2b84-b402-480f-b9ea-d87e6a1b85d6) currently sits at 9190 with 1 day left (+200 last 6 days) Wall Clock (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/5f13f0c2-284c-4cb2-b649-f554f29e1514) currently sites at 7874 with 36 days left (+80 last 6 days) Formerly on the bubble, now not so much: Trabant 601 (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/e562cb01-1a45-4b4d-92a8-571b2efa7119) currently sites at 8962 with 119 days left (+600 last 6 days) 43 sets with more than 50% support

I wouldn't really say that the others went without warning. All three of them were available from the big 3 retailers the entire month of December at close to 50% off retail. And they were on the retirement list for this past December.

Used Arch Chicago $85 Used AT-AT 75054 $189 another Mega Blocks Enterprise $285 the buyer used eBay global shipping so probably paid another $90 for shipping 22lbs

I haven’t posted a poker table picture in awhile. America!! I haven’t posted a poker table picture in awhile. America!!

As others have said: You can't really predict. Even if you have the list, it will only help you in knowing what to buy - but which month it retires is a different story. It's pretty much safe to say the Black Friday carnage on Shop at Home last year won't repeat itself. So maybe no discounts at all as all the other retailers won't go down if LEGO sells out. And there is the possibility of sets disappearing without them producing anymore... it will say toos in June but it may be gone already...

this is pretty much impossible...the Mexico plant is still closed and currently 2 months behind schedule (I doubt their pace in the best of times left much room for "ramping up" anyway). Every other manufacturing sector is experiencing reduced efficiency due to new health restrictions....we've already seen what happens when LEGO tries to ramp up their other factories...ie every Exclusive sets on LEGO Shop at Home is OOS. ...and thru it all TLG still prioritized getting brand new never heard of Monkey turds (w/ a ton of Chinese writing on box cover) out to market...so the decision makers are clearly not reading the room

lol - that was your VERY FIRST post on bp - you came in gunz a blazin' no doubt, i gave you you're first ' brickpicker LIKE on that post. don't let the haters win. you can't be surprised that doubters exist. you were on the money last year - thanks!

Is it just me or are you noticing that the back order dates have been changing too?

I just don't see the Community set having enough widespread appeal for LEGO to take it on like the Big Bang or Friends sets. That windmill is awesome. With Elves gone, I'd really love to see a line that focuses on fantasy/medieval settings that aren't strictly "knights/castle." I know the creator of the windmill set also submitted a Legend of Zelda set, and that is right in line with what I am picturing.

The Mountain Windmill by Hanwasyellowfirst https://ideas.lego.com/projects/f966f364-7cee-44ad-8870-6d7ff1cfe053 Achieved 10,000 supporters on 11 May 2020. Submitted on 10 Feb 2020. 4th submission by Hanwasyellowfirst. 3rd one to reach 10,000 supporters. His first was The Seven Dwarfs' House, which was not approved. The second was The Legend of Zelda: BotW Stables, which is currently under review. This set was at 9200 supporters just 5 days ago. Currently, there are: 15 sets with more than 75% support 2 sets at more than 90% support (LEGO HeroQuest @ 9688 and House from Up @ 9035) Mining Site currently sits at 8785 with 13 days left Most recently posted is Community - Greendale Community College (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/1e2c362e-43ab-4f8c-8340-6b7b13cd14de) which has ~8500 supporters and was posted on May 4 (7 days ago)

Many of these projects look great to me. I doubt it would be space just because of already having the Lander and ISS available. My favorite is the train station, but I don't think they'll pick that one due to the size. Globe, Bowling alley and Zelda castle would be next. I'd give globe the best chance out of those

Some random current stats for Gathering Support submissions as of May 6, 2020: 14 sets are 75% of the way to 10,000 supporters (one is just under 7500 supporters) 2 sets are above 90% of the way to 10,000 supporters LEGO HeroQuest (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/d0c19cd7-ad7a-4775-b185-debbf29968d7) has ~9500 supporters, posted July 2019, with 482 days left Of those 14 sets, the oldest was posted in March 2018 - Mining Site (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/86dd2b84-b402-480f-b9ea-d87e6a1b85d6) with ~8600 supporters and 18 days left Of those 14 sets, the newest was posted in February 2020 - The Mountain Windmill (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/f966f364-7cee-44ad-8870-6d7ff1cfe053) with ~9200 supporters and 703 days left Overall, there are 4 sets that have more than 6000 supporters, and less than 90 days until they expire 8 of those 14 sets are Staff Picks 5 of those 14 sets are 3rd Party IP 9 of those 14 sets are original ideas

An INCREDIBLE 26 Product Ideas Qualify for the First 2020 LEGO Ideas Review https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/a4ae09b6-0d4c-4307-9da8-3ee9f3d368d6/post/17ed46b3-0547-4eb5-b4c6-2defb9ee298f

Earth Globe https://ideas.lego.com/projects/b7b83cfe-5fcb-4080-a8b2-298716b11791 May 2020

The Trade Federation Strikes Back

It reminds me of these bad boys.

I like the fishing boat and bowling alley. Although there aren't really any that jump out at me as a awesome set. Far and away, my favorite is the bowling alley, but I'm probably biased as I used to be an avid bowler. The other sets that grab me, and I think have a shot, are the fishing boat (though I think it's the color scheme as much as anything) and the Gemini project (will this set be disallowed because of the Saturn V set?) I would really like to see the Ruined House chosen, but that seems too out-of-the-box for Lego. Of the licensed options, I think the Krusty Krab is the strongest possibility, followed by the Iron Giant. Futurama is the wild card, but I'm doubting its chances.

This looks amazing and out of the bunch I like this the most. But when it is all said and done, it is a bunch of gray pieces and a boy minifigure. Am I wrong in saying it needs something else to appeal to the masses?

The Legend of Zelda BotW: Hyrule Castle https://ideas.lego.com/projects/1dfd211d-88f9-4663-88ea-e448da921adf April 2020

Does anyone else wonder if Coronavirus is causing a record number of Ideas submissions to hit 10k?

Ruined House April 2020

I have to think a design which hits 10k in a matter of a few months would be given more attention than one which requires closer to a year. Has anyone done an analysis of time-to-10k vs becoming an actual set?

Not that I have the talent or creativity to do so, but if I were one of these designers I might be a little upset that the time 1 of my designs finally makes the threshold 20 others do too. Essentially cutting my chances of being selected in half.

Coraline's Pink Palace Apartments April 2020

Knight Rider - KITT March 2020

talk about biased...

The Great Fishing Boat March 2020

Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone March 2020

It was recently explained to me that Arrested Development was a show about dumb people made for smart people, whereas Big Bang Theory was a show about smart people made for dumb people.

The less people are reminded of some sets, the less they may remember to hoard them so it´s not necessarily a bad thing. My catalogue has 14 pages of Ninjago and SW and half a page of Architecture and that´s just the way it should be.

our first used Modular on local eBay, first purchased locally here in Brazil, at BRL 1300 (USD~385 -EUR~349) extremely well kept, first time no missing pieces at all (previous used set experiences always with missing pieces 75093, 79003, 7965, 8038, 4842, etc.), as you can see below seller placed back the pieces into the original numbered bags...