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Whoever wrote this scene, I'm assuming Favreau, just put clown shoes on everyone involved with the sequel trilogy. There are probably some that are calling this empty fan service, but if this kind of fans service is wrong, I don't want to be right.

I got a message in regards to an order I shipped on Wednesday .. Moments likes these are def worth the bad ones : "Thank you for the super fast shipping. My kiddo's original BIG gift fell through, and y'all saved the day. THANK YOU!"

As the x-wing flashed past the window I said to my wife, "Was that Red Five?" I grabbed the remote and backed up to that scene - "Yep, it's Red Five. This is the Luke the entire Star Wars fan base has been looking for." She said, "How can you tell it's Luke?" Me: "The stripes on the wings." My wife: "You're such a geek." lol I confess I almost had tears in my eyes while Luke toasted the entire squad of dark troopers. If only the sequel trilogy had given us this Luke. *sigh*

How we all felt in that moment https://v.redd.it/g04g7wc7a3661

Here is my theory on how Anakin missed Grogu in the Jedi temple: When Anakin came and killed the younglings, it sent a huge shock through the force. Grogu was in the same building and the shock gave him such a trauma causing amnesia. When he lost his memory, he was disconnected from the Force. From that point on, Anakin/Vader and Palp can no longer sense Grogu's abilities through the Force. Grogu was not exactly a youngling so he would not train with the other younglings and was small enough he could easily hid somewhere in the temple When Grogu was put on that stone on Jedi temple, he dialed back in to the Force (blue light of convenience). One guy happened to look for beings with special talents, detected Grogu's presence through the Force, and tracked him down Dang it this show made me theorycrafting. I only theorycraft for the shows I like (ie. in the Rebels & GoT threads). Good job F & F, I did not think I would care for SW again anytime so soon

"Listen lady...there's just ONE man that can guarantee a present arrives Christmas day...and although I may be fat, I sure ain't wearing all red or sporting bells.."

Sold a majority of my small collection to a single buyer for $1,750. Some of the more expensive items were the LE Batmobile promo, Christmas Tree (pulling $100 on ebay), Mustang, Apollo Lander, Crocodile Locomotive, several Ideas sets and then just random stuff from there. Feels wierd to see my empty shelves. Kind of sweet sorrow. It was fun knowing I could always turn something into cash rather quickly. Not sure if this is a 2nd dark age or not.

I check the prices a couple times a year. If a set is flat, I dump it after a year. Maybe it'll go up, but maybe it will be the next Birds, Exosuit, Women of NASA, etc... just taking up shelf space. If it climbed, but has since leveled off, also a good time to sell. Super Star Destroyer, Grand Emporium, etc... would be a good examples (ignoring what they did this past year). If it took off like a rocket with irrational exuberance, might want to pull the trigger quick -- I'm looking at you, Seacow. Everything else, is up to your cash flow needs. In my spreadsheet where I track all my sets, I have the sale price column and the date sold right next together. Most of my sales are on ebay and I list one set at a time, and I'll price the next set based on the trend that I'm seeing. It's depressing when I see sets selling for $350 two weeks before Christmas that were selling for $250 two weeks earlier. Ya, you'd wish you had held onto those sets and sold them later, but that's how the dice rolls sometimes. My solution is to "simply" stock enough sets that I can get some quick returns early, but also have the reserves to participate in the long game. For me, that means where I might have considered 10 of a set to be a good reserve with large diversification, now I'm looking at 30 to 50 in a smaller variety. Similarly, if it is going up, consider why. Is it FOMO driven -- if so, sell quick. Is it part of a long-term collectible series (winter holiday sets, architecture cityscapes) where new incoming participants want to catch up -- then it'll probably only continue to increase and you might want to hold longer. If it is part of a series that has been cancelled -- such as sets based on a particular movie -- then the demand might wane and you'll wish you had sold earlier. And then there are the classics -- look at the price history of 10223 or any of the 7040X castle sets. When you think of LEGO, how can you not think about Space and Castles? As long as LEGO doesn't introduce a new castle series, nostalgia will continue to drive these up and you should probably hold onto a couple of them. And then there is the exit plan. How much can a set go up after all? If it's already 5x its original MSRP like some of the castle sets, then do you cash out or keep betting? I don't know of many people who will say, "Oh, why did I sell for 400% profit when I could have made 900% profit?" You're more likely to hear, "Why didn't I take my 400% profit before LEGO decided to reissue the same set this year and now I only doubled my money?" It's a lot safer to take that 400% gain and reinvest it in the next set that might go up only 50%, but is not very likely to drop 50% after retirement. Also, at some point, folks will Bricklink a set if they are willing to spend 5x MSRP. I picked 5x just because that's a fairly extreme gain that not many sets will hit. Personally, if I have a set that has hit 3x MSRP on ebay, I'm more than happy to sell and never look back.

That fox was an easy lock based on previous elves performance. Easily the best animal of the last run in the series. I see it in the $250 range easy on eBay by next year. IMO Elves are some of the best sets Lego ever produced. I’ve built many of the sets to sell used and they are fantastic, technical, “girls” sets. Nothing compares. Trolls is a half hearted attempt to recreate which doesn’t cut it.

Stopped by Mom and Pop’s Pharmacy for some 20% off goodness.

that's what she said

Put my life at risk and met @$20 on joe vs danfor a local sale yesterday. Sold him and his kiddo an open box 10212 UCS Imperial Shuttle with sealed bags. Nice meeting and chatting with a local picker. Enjoy the set!

I was riding a 3/1 ratio until just recently. Damn me for commenting during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday extravaganza. Hurting it again by posting here.

Customer: "Please sir, can you tell me where my BrickLink order is?" Me:

I better start selling!

Great to also see the Lambda Class Shuttle being used in the final episode! I still hope for a Lego UCS Imperial Shuttle remake to someday come out, as I never got the 10212 set. This appearance in The Mandalorian might boost that chance.

I ignore that language, which appears left over from the 12/8 update. The below language was included in the 12/16 update: UPDATE as of Wednesday, Dec. 16 For transactions occurring November 15 through December 31, we are adding the following seller protections: We will automatically remove any defects for “item not received” cases closed without seller resolution as well as associated negative or neutral feedback if these conditions are met: Tracking was uploaded and has a physical scan from the carrier before the case was opened. A delivery scan shows the item was delivered after the case was closed. In addition, these cases will not impact your service metrics rating. We will also remove negative or neutral feedback related to a late delivery automatically if an item arrives late but tracking shows that you shipped on time. We recognize it’s in your nature to immediately make things right for the buyer, but given unprecedented and unpredictable shipping delays, cases may take longer to resolve. We ask that you keep lines of communication with your buyers open. We are asking them to be patient. For items in transit, we are keeping cases open for 10 more days from the time a buyer asked eBay to step in to allow additional time for the item to be delivered

I’m averaging about 1-2 new emails / cases per day at this point ... it’s ridiculous. eBay’s response has been terrible. You can blame the pandemic and USPS but they can do better. I’m a small guy ... I can’t imagine what bigger sellers are going through and how much money is on the line with stranded packages. Thankfully most of my buyers have been patient and understanding but it’s very time consuming to respond and help track. Meanwhile FedEx and UPS packages are getting delivered on time...

My favorite tape, HP260, is $3 bucks off at Amazon, not a huge deal but it doesn't seem to go on sale often. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XJOBUS/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You’d better keep two, just in case your City layout gets hit with COVID. You’ll need the extra hospital beds. [emoji23]

Wow. Just wow. This is the stuff I've been craving for 35 years.

It's depressing. We shutdown our store earlier this week; should have shut it down earlier. The worst areas for us are in Pennsylvania (partially due to Winter Storm Gail). Luckily, customers are patient (so far), but won't be next week. Check out the trucks in the backup: Detroit: https://www.facebook.com/groups/302095707173527/permalink/676551349727959/ Western MA: https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/postal-service-trucks-backed-up-outside-bulk-mail-facility-in-springfield/ Cleveland: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/usps-delays-this-holiday-season/95-4db41989-7ae9-478a-b544-b64015472859 Philadelphia: https://www.inquirer.com/business/usps-package-tracking-delays-philadelphia-christmas-2020-20201218.html Baltimore: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/continuous-mail-problems-leads-to-more-shipping-delays/34964930 I think we're going to have to a bunch of upset customers who won't get orders by Christmas despite ordering & shipping >2 weeks before Christmas. Ugh.

Holy F Nothing else to say. Agree with everything above. Freaking awesome Compared to where I was this time last year with this franchise? Definitely a course correction.

Finally, some people at Disney do the original films justice while making a quality “live” product. It only took two people who starred in the Swingers before directing (forever B level comic character) Iron Man films & another who did cartoon series to get it right. Whereas big Hollywood people like JJ Abrams, Kathleen Kennedy , & Rian Johnson all failed.

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*whistles innocently*

GWP with $75 purchase of HP in Jan Ideas Retro car also Jan with $85 of anything

My only minor gripe on the episode. Anyone who watched Rebels know the whole handing over darksaber thing was BS. This one stuck in my head because it was also weird in Rebels. Sabine got the saber, trained to use it, only to hand it over to Bo Katan ??? Also, Bo Katan received it in front of a bunch of Mandalorians, so it was not exactly a secret

That's what I read, but it also says "when any one of the following happens" and notes a physical carrier scan within your handling time +2 days and I certainly meet that. I'd like to see eBay provide some guidance on how to handle the customers that want refunds with packages yet to be delivered. I guess if they're going to delete negative feedback I can just tell them to pound sand and wait.

Hoping this comes back to Amazon.ca at a discount and will pick up a few more.

not on the stonewars list. orderable in europe. toos in us. not looking like its going this month. i just tried for the first time in a while and i'm finally ungated on this set on amazon and can add it to my amazon store inventory - might buy a few.

Bear with me and I'll try to match.

I think Grogu will somehow be reunited with Mando and avoid the massacre .

BTC is doing amazing. Probably still didn't take off, I suspect 2021 will be an unbelievably strong year for BTC, which is both an opportunity & something to seriously worry about, as someone wants digital assets to replace gold, silver, platinum etc. I predict we'll kick ourselves if we're not getting in now. Kind of a high risk/high reward game. Probably more on the high reward side though, as big players, billionaire investors, corporations & banks are getting into it right now. I still believe this whole operation is a strategy to let people warm up to digital currencies, to eliminate cash, install a digital dollar/euro/yen & take away the last piece of freedom we have, which is money in physical form. Pure transparency incoming.

I suspect 2020 effects will shock many...strap in your seatbelts...no one's seen anything like this before ...and not even LEGO, I'm talking toilet paper 😂

#OMGThebestDisneyStarWarsEver

Missa thinks we no so luckies

I need to up my game...I thought working towards a 50% goal would be decent clearly too much keyboard diarrhea clogging the forums on my part

*coughs* (There are plenty) If this gwp is around for more than a week it's really going to tank the price.

Impressive.

My suggestion is contrary to what @brickvoyeur says: I would tell them that these are likely import fees, and that as per your T&Cs the recipient is responsible for these fees. Tell them what you declared on the package (I assume the invoice total) and leave it at that. You might want to give them the option to refuse, and tell them you will refund them their money minus shipping costs and any administrative fees you get levied with once the package returns.

Calendar coming on Dec.21... should confirm rumors

Not much new, but seems to be releasing in May according to a German LEGO magazine. Anyone have the physical magazine for confirmation? Good lord do I want to tear down my ho-hum modular city, sell it off, and put together the Ninjago City, Docks, Temple of Airjitzu, and Lion Dance that are currently sitting in my inventory. Of course, that would mean I needed to do two things: somehow have time for building LEGO and, more importantly, work up the resolve to cut those seals.

Some recent FBM sales 10736 - $95 10744 - $100 21145 - $69 41621 - $85 41762 - $85 60017 - $100 60056 - $210 60059 - $178 60097 - $300

Last City Hospital for $192 shipped. Buy-in average on these was ~$60. Keeping one for potential town rebuild.

They are working on a reissue with a new set number 22007