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Picked up a new foster cat from spca this morning. 2 yo tortie girl. She is a little spooked and has taken to the top shelf. Was friendly at the shelter so hopefully she comes around soon.

We just need Hippielego to return, then they can go back and have their epic slapfights.

I am still not convinced @joneyyy1981and @BorderTerrier isn't Tabbyboy just going back and forth with himself.

It's nice to have members who actually share what info they have. IMO, Constantly Razzing fellow members will slow the sharing flow. Members earn their trust and those words hold weight. It would be nice to have the member who stated SaturnV and Ninjago city returning was still talking about things but as they had no rep and what they were saying sounded quite troll, they were scared off maybe. I hope the badgering of some doesn't scare off others. This is one of the best communities on the net I've found so far. Parent style rant over:)

Yea you could say that. Came down about an hour ago all purrs and cuddles. Real sweetheart.

I didn't have time to take more pics this morning and didn't even look long enough to see the number change. I don't mind opening the shipper, what's the fun of collecting if you can't even enjoy the artwork.

I'd return them. They listed the incorrect product number and what's the point in having them now.

OMG pls stop. It's geographically impossible an island your size is large enough to fit two of you. Lurking for months and now suddenly 15+ daily me-centric posts with the constant eye winks, speaking in absolutes, doomsday scenarios, and 'secret' connections. Can we just get this over with and have you guarantee crypto will outperform LEGO in 2021?

I’m a little offended that Exciter and I might be the same person. More offended on behalf of Exciter than myself. But offended none-the-less.

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Unfortunately your argument is flawed. If the only people you will believe regarding lego EOL dates is lego, then we might aswell shut down brickpicker. There are people here who have some more info / data than the average Joe, its not always correct, but it does provide some hints / tips.

And in 6 months you'll be kicking yourself for other reasons...

To all the people hoping fans will desire the original: Only morons would pay for a different number on the box.

My kids have been playing Among Us lately...but I have to say, this thread is far more entertaining!

Plenty. You just got one of the re-releases.

Kindness was the way to go!

mate. what you earn is your business. i hope you earn a million per week, I don't care, just stop with the secret society act, people in high places blah blah & trying to impress everyone with your part time returns.

Same part count, same box, exact duplicate. Sorry kids.

Well this has been an entertaining read! 😁 Surely sharing tips would encourage others on the forum to do the same? Therefore, creating an advantageous investing community, which is what probably draws people to such sites anyway? I don’t believe the competition is that fierce that the buying habits influenced by posts on this forum would negatively affect sales down the line, literally because of the 1000,s of buyers available. That being said, whether people post either opinions, genuine tips or just rubbish. All contribution makes a great read (y) 😁.

It looks like the set was produced in Mexico in September 2020.

lego and amazon already have a history of replacing an exisiting set with an exact remake. elsa magical ice palace (41148) had an identical remake immediately after EOL -> 43172. (deja vu) 43172 took over 41148's listing on amazon screwing all the 41148 resellers since you couldn't legitimately sell it under that listing anymore. you can look up the reviews on the current amazon 43172 listing and they go back to 2017 before 43172 was even released - because they took over 41148s reviews. i am not surprised at all if amazon just sticks the saturn v remake under the old listing with the new set number since they already did it once. just another slap in the face of resellers.

Fair enough, I understand not wanting to crack open a shipper in prime condition. Many of us are curious exactly what little changes, if much at all, will be on these new boxes. We'll get more and more info in the coming days I'm sure. Thanks for sharing!

When was that sale? This set isn’t available in store, only online, and I don’t remember any chatter here. A sale like that would have us talking. I don’t have any of these yet because I’ve also been waiting for a sale. Looks like I might need to buy a few at retail.

Please kind sir do elaborate

the next option is to chargeback through your credit card company. I would totally do this. AirBNB does not have a reasonable defense...and most CC are looking out for their members. If you want to give Airbnb 1 more chance.. you can first threaten Airbnb with a credit card chargeback of which they know they will likely lose and take a hit against their merchant services...you can negotiate a credit (for a future trip) so Airbnb does not lose the money nor have to use resources fighting Visa. Just NEVER ever initiate a chargeback and then cancel it on your end (no matter what Airbnb promises).

In general I am anti-bailout, however, this is a unique situation in that the gov't forced businesses to shutdown. In this instance I think it is the gov't responsibility to help those business that it forced to close.

Before this thread gets locked, can I just state here that I am sick and tired of Covid, riots, politics( both parties and candidates), the Russians, the Chinese, sports games without fans, Dr. Fauci, wearing masks, death counters, flies, excuses that things cannot be done because of Covid, NJ Governor Murphy, remote learning, bad bank hours, poor theatrical releases and having to use hand sanitizer 100 times a day. End of rant.

Speaking of Airbnb, we're spending the rest of the week and weekend in Mariposa, a town near Yosemite. We don't want to fly anywhere so this is our "vacation". We'll be spending the day at Yosemite on Saturday. I haven't been there in 20+ years and our kids have never been there. Can't wait.

A little late to the game but, after selling online for almost 10 years, I now use the Brother QL-1100 for all my label printing. I wished that I had bought it years ago. It runs just fine on generic labels, as long as it has the black box on them to tell it to cut. Oh, it also works with Mac. https://www.amazon.com/Brother-QL-1100-Postage-Barcode-Professional/dp/B079G51QTB/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=brother+ql-1100&qid=1602285590&sr=8-3

Well, there was this: "I will say this again nobody except the really high up members of the lego group know which set is going or coming, they are heavily guarded secrets. These people wont be posting on brickpicker or any other forums as it wouldn't be worth there time to do so." There's a difference between not revealing one's source and not having a source. Please don't misunderstand me...I was not going for "I'm a superior being" in my last post...that was 100% abrasive a-hole. Two things here. First, you sure spend a lot of time responding to words that mean nothing to you. Second, there is a certain irony in you bemoaning people trying to put others down on the internet while trying to put others down on the internet...well done on that one!

Did the cat come around?

We're Curious to what changes were made if any to the box besides" Ideas" removed and number.

This popped up a couple of days ago, but was gone by the time I checked it: https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Creator-Expert-Winter-Village-Fire-Station-10263-Building-Set/331035669

+1 Hoping he is okay as well.

I waited until Target cleared out a bunch of these @ 50% off before picking up mine. I plan on doing the same w/GBH.

In the highly unlikely event of somebody in the UK wanting one of these at RRP (£120 posted), send me a PM. I'm already sending one out today. BACS 50% upfront and 50% upon delivery. Mods.... Please move to classifieds thread if there is one, thanks!

Believe me or don't, I don't care, but I'm not sure why you think I would lie about this. What would I stand to gain by doing that? I understand both responses. Even though only Lego's elite know retirement dates, some lesser mortals have access to retailer wholesale lists or can find out what's on them. That's where I get some of my "tips" from. Since we're all fierce cut-throat competitors on here, such information is privileged and I can't share it. I also don't want to be responsible if it's wrong or updated. Don't hold me to it, but my "intel" on the Beetle and T1 differs to consensus 😉

I also look at this situation as a terrible business practice. I'm largely unfamiliar with Airbnb and have never used them. But my parents rent out some houses via VRBO and when the pandemic happened they gave everyone the proper refunds. It also worked out later, as a bunch of them booked the house over the summer, making up for a certain amount of lost revenue. I just don't think if I was running a business like that and wasn't able to fulfill the rental for one reason or another that I would feel justified in not refunding the renter.

that set is $$$ now

I think this is still on schedule. IIRC, the last several years there have been these overlap months when the new set is available, and the set from two years ago hasn't yet sold out. Firehouse will sell out in the next couple months, and I'm guessing it will go faster than it otherwise would have because the GBH will be TOOS more than not for the rest of the year. By the end of next year, I would love to have 100+ GBH's in my portfolio. That set is going to be a monster after retirement...I just hope they retire it next year.

I get that you don't have high confidence in the numbers...and anyone can make a hypothetical argument seem true Simply stated, life right now sucks for me, for my family, and for pretty much everyone we know...compared to pre-CV. That's not made up or media bias telling us our life sucks. so it's REAL...denying it makes one appear delusional. Also your points are flawed in that there is a big difference between the beginning, middle and current times...Yes, many can speculate there was enough unknowns early on that caused poor or slow action..and hindsight is 20-20. So if everyone gets a pass in Feb/March...it does not explain the poor actions in April, May, June, July, Aug, Sept...and now October...unless you think everyone getting a $200K experimental drug for free is realistic and a good message to tell the nation? The nail in the coffin for me is this...looking at the last 8 months as a whole...the US is bottom tier in the world in terms of its progress w/ CV...and has been for most of that duration...and there is zero evidence that its going to get any better soon. what has this country been doing the last 8 months other than bickering amongst ourselves...that's poor leadership...and leadership issues are always top down.

Thank you @LegoMan1212, what you typed took berries and I appreciate that. I agreed with alot of your Task Force Plan. @Alpinemaps, I would say Zero fraud as well. Mistakes, ok, we can work through those. But fraud, no way jose. One of my biggest peevs about the election process is if a candidate knows they wont win the popular vote, they target the correct amount of electoral votes and then inundate those states with lies, propaganda and fear. I mean, those are tactics discussed straight out of mein kempf. Also, trying to disregard hindsight and keeping basic science and particle/dust/contaminate containment in mind, I would have kept to my same plan as we discussed back in March in the Covid thread. I would have opened up the development of a rapid test from actual companies that specialize in serology and not made it a race for profits. Also, I would have included other countries early on that had already developed a PCR based test (15 min, rare false neg/pos) and was testing tens of thousands a day before the summer (S.Korea, Japan, etc). Testing early on is key to minimize the spread, which we had plenty of time to do. Also, facemasks would have been mandatory with strict enforcement. But first things first, I would have educated the population right out of the gate. So they knew what we were up against and how good hygiene, social distancing and wearing masks are truly the only weapon we as humans have against a novel(new) virus we understand so little about(No test, vaccine or treatment). Calling the disease a hoax or 'just like the flu' gave so many nut jobs and know it alls a false sense of knowledge to actually go against the advice of scientists. Think of that for a minute. We all wasted time discussing if masks work, why cant I go to the bar or church and the death count is inflated. And we are still going around this merry-go-round as schools are dealing with clusters along with Hollywood, Pro Sports and even the WHITE HOUSE.

Zero. I don't find murder acceptable either in case you were wondering. However, when either occur, I expect it to be captured and put through the justice system. For voting fraud to occur, you have to have so many things go wrong. This is not a full list but some items as examples 1) Each district knows the population 2) Each district knows how their district typically votes (within deviations of course) 3) Each district knows what percentage of voters typically turn out (high, lows, etc..) 4) Each district has Multiple people watching over the election process 5) Each district has their own standards on how people can register to vote 6) Each district is within the USA and falls under our judicial system, of which, the vast majority of people know it is unlawful to illegally vote. Is it still possible to commit voter fraud. Of course it is, just like murder is possible. However , unlike murder, which I would say is very low already, it is already statistically so much lower than murder that it is a "fake outrage" that is being created. Especially when some states have been voting by mail 100% for year and years and year, w/o any issues. So what would they suddenly have one now? If voter fraud was such an issue, why even waste money on advertising, on campaign visits, on everything. Just spend the money making ballots and blowing past all those items listed above. Like Russia, where there are video's after video's of people taking ballots and just dumping them in. Let's not forget too, part of the stimulus package was more money for elections, but Republicans balked at this being included... which surprised no one. Anyone else hear about Texas reducing ballot drop off boxes to 1 per County. Which equates to 4.7MM Houston citizens that have 1 drop box to utilize. If they all chose to use the drop box, they would have to drop off 6,000+ ballots per hour every hour to meet the deadline. Imagine that for a second, 6,000 people having to drop off their ballots every hour until election to satisfy the County. Opponents say "well if you want to vote, you will drive by and drop it off, we still make time for grocery shopping". Imagine having to go buy groceries and having 6,000 people there as well within the same hour. Anyway, the answer is Zero. I don't care who you vote for, but vote and don't complain if you don't vote and don't like the outcome. EDIT: Obviously, I voted Biden. I hoped for the best with Trump, I really did. But I've been in my house for 240 days only leaving for groceries and to see my mom/dad 2 times and I'm sick of there being no f'ing plan to get us out of this. I'm tired of "putting cloth" over our face even being debatable. It's disgusting, the leadership is awful and full of BS over and over and over again. The press conferences on COVID were embarrassing. I don't care what happened or was said in the first couple weeks. There has been zero shift in plans since except spew the same dumb stuff over and over again. Scientists will save us, not this administration. When a vaccine becomes available from any company that succeeds, whomever is president will surely have it distributed after it passes all the necessary tests. Overall, I'm fed up with this timeline and look forward to another team coming in and Leading from the top to everyone, not just red states or whomever is in his trumps pocket. I'm also pissed that he steals golf revenue from us every week. We complain about the smallest things, but accept millions beyond millions just going directly to his businesses. That is not very presidential if you are trying to save the USA money when we are exceeding budgets like crazy. Anyway, go vote. I'll still be your friend if we are not on the same page here. I have kept level heads with any republican friends throughout this. I was once a republican and voted that way all the way up to 2016. (and never Scott Walker too) Take care everyone EDIT2: Sometimes I'm asked, well how would you have solved this COVID thing... Sure here goes. #1 - Have a goal. Maybe in April/May/June or July even made the serious goal of "we want to make sure our children are back in school come Sept 1" #2 - How do we obtain this goal. Severe methods vs Non-Severe methods. What are other countries doing, etc.... Select the most appropriate method and implement it across the nation. It probably would have just had to be some of the following (and others too of course): 2a... everyone who can stays at home (duh right) 2b..... everyone will be provided with enough money to pay rent/home payments, auto, etc.... and where needed food assistance including delivery of food to those most at risk (pretty much keep unemployment going + extra to those that may not qualify and to be fair to all those actually working still) 2c..... all small businesses are provide with income to continue to survive to pay their rents/expenses etc..... 2d... basically pull out all the cards to make sure nearly everyone possible is taken care of to keep the cases from going up #3... test the hell out of everyone, test them more than once, but make sure the virus is cornered. #4.... educate everyone on why this is being done and drill home the following ovre and over and over again "proper masks to wear, social distancing, we are in this together, we are getting there, be 100% honest, just be honest" #5... mail every person in America multiple masks. have a store online where citizens can buy more masks from the Post Office (help fund them too) to get creative ones or ones that fit your style, maybe you need a larger size too #6.... if needed, pay incentives to those whom are covid free (small tax credit) - this one I'm sketchy on, but I feel there could be some kind of incentive to those that continually test negative, but not Large enough to matter in the grand scheme (it's a work in progress) #7... then obviously make sure all front line workers no matter what industry they are in have the proper items to keep them from spreading anyway, these items are just things I literally wrote in the last 7 minutes. I'm not a task force, which is why I can't believe the "task" force implemented next to nothing other than "hope" for a vaccine. This is the end. I can only do so much of this, but this is also a stress reliever simply typing it out, even if you hate everything about it. That's your problem, not mine. I wanted a common solution we could all get behind. Imagine COVID was under control and only popping up in pockets here and there. Trump would have won in a landslide and even though I probably still would have voted Biden (not sure) it wouldn't have mattered as much because he took care of us...instead of watching 200k die and barely acknowledging it.

it's strategy. either side will accuse the other of "forcing their hand"...but the bar has been lowered probably going back decades....and all sense of decency and respect for the office (and the country) has all been given up since maybe Gore.

A study in DBG rockwork by Full Plate

You mean commit felony tax fraud?