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Rumors from Reddit. Supposedly translated from a Dutch source. Take it with all the Salt on Crait 75303 - UCS Republic Gunship - $199.99 - 1794 pieces - May 4 Release 75304 - Darth Vader Helmet - $79.99 - 834 pieces - April 1 Release 75305 - Scout Trooper Helmet - $49.99 - 471 pieces - April 1 Release 75306 - Imperial Probe Droid - $59.99 - 683 pieces - April 1 Release 75307 - Royal Guard Helmet - $59.99 - 526 pieces - April 1 Release 75308 - Build-A-Trooper - $199.99 - 1077 pieces - 2021 Release 75309 - MBS Attack on Endor - $349.99 - 2942 pieces - 2021 Release 75310 - Rebel Ambush - $19.99 - 138 pieces - August 1 Release 75311 - Advent Calendar - $39.99 - 299 pieces - September 1 Release 75312 - V-19 Torrent - $49.99 - 533 pieces - August 1 Release 75313 - UCS Death Star - $799.99 - 6844 pieces - 2021 Release 75314 - The Bad Batch - $99.99 - 770 pieces - August 1 Release 75315 - Imperial Star Destroyer - $159.99 - 1437 pieces - August 1 Release 75316 - Revenge of Palpatine - $59.99 - 391 pieces - August 1 Release 75319 - Resistance Transport - $29.99 - 302 pieces - August 1 Release

Let me know when the market is crashing and everybody is selling.

My brother messaged the family chat today and asked if I'd sent him some Lego, I hadn't (at least not intentionally). Moments later I get a message from my mom saying it was her, she'd bought the Police Station modular for him (which was really sweet of her). He's a cop and actually builds and plays with his Lego more than I do. I'm mostly just jealous his order made on the 3rd (with a by Jan 20th availability) arrived before my order from the 1st did!

What's the difference between Mordor and the U.S. Capitol?

R.I.P. Tommy Lasorda, one of the Dodger's all time great managers and one of baseballs greatest ambassadors. Age 93.

As long as it doesn't turn into a litter box.

FYI, this set won Brickset's "What's your favorite set of 2020" as voted by the site's members... Results: What is your favourite set, set costing below $40 and minifigure of 2020? | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database

You mean like the proven fact that the RNC embedded Proud Boys rioters in the otherwise peaceful BLM protest this summer, leading up to one person dead? So far everything that the right wing and especially Trump have accused the left wing of, they (and only they) have done themselves: - the only ones trying to Steal the Vote were Trump and his comrades - the only swamp that needs draining is the nepotistic web of associates installed by the Trump administration - the only Fake News spread has been the lies (“alternative facts”) spread by the right wing - the only “embedding of rioters” done has not been done by Antifa, but by Proud Boys and other far-right organizations. Moderators, please remove my post after a few mins (and Jbad’s) No need for this political talk on this forum. But I had to get this of my chest. It is despicable how even after the televisied facts of 1/6 some people still manage to justify this behavior one way or another. Peace.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/trump-says-he-wont-attend-joe-bidens-inauguration/ Five people died in the Capitol break-in, including US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, 42, who reportedly was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher. Trump supporter and Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, 35, was fatally shot by an officer while attempting to break through a barricaded interior window. Trump supporter Roseanne Boyland, 34, collapsed in the Rotunda and may have been trampled to death, her family told the Daily Mail. Trump supporter Kevin Greeson, 55, reportedly died from a heart attack and Benjamin Phillips, 50, reportedly had a stroke. Anyone who thinks that this "demonstration" was more "peaceful" than the BLM demonstrations should also know that there were literally thousands of BLM protests with zero issues across the country and the world...but obviously the headlines are the bad apples. Weigh your opinions with good info please.

The car shopping/buying experience is one of the most miserable things to do on this planet as an adult.

Maybe someone had already reported this but if access from Canada on Lego 's home page 75244 Tantive IV is marked "Sold Out"

The buying experience for my (new) Tesla model 3 was fantastic. Everything online, a few phonecalls to arrange financing (I went 3rd party vs using Tesla’s recommended banks), a couple of weeks later my car was ready for pickup. And when my wife didn’t like the white interior in the model I had chosen once she saw it, they just removed the match from my account, and 2 weeks later a new car was ready (the one I drive now). No hassle, no fighting with sales people, just an effective transaction where I knew what to expect every step of the way.

I'm a small-timer (less than $17K in revenue from Ebay last year) and I have free returns on most of my listings (which I think is part of what's necessary to get the Top-Rated Seller discount on fees). I've never had a return.

Any qfll for this set?

That's a bunch of work, I usually get all of that done in the same day. We bought our last vehicle in late March.

I bought our first car this week. I've never bought a car before. Monday: Went to dealership and test drove. Negotiated the price and put down payment. Also, requested updated insurance plus auto insurance for the first time. Tuesday: Re-worked the purchase and sales agreement back and forth. Sent dealer additional ID info. Send final draft to the bank for loan approval. Got insurance policy for car. Wednesday: Review and signed the loan agreements and sent to bank. Thursday: Bank review loan agreements and approves the loan, sending out full payment to dealership via overnight. Today: Dealer receives the check from the bank. PROFIT???? I still need to get insurance cards to the dealer though but I'm at the finish line now...

Nintendo and T-Mobile have been my heavy lifters. My unit cost of Nintendo is $38.17. It closed at 79.01 today. My unit cost of T-Mobile is $69.09. It closed today at 133.19. Even my mutual fund is up 60%.

Here’s interesting chart showing bear and bull markets with durations. I’m still shocked the 2020 bear market really only lasted 1 month. Not enough time for a true correction. Further reflects how Wall St doesn’t reflect Main St. As of late last month, there was $726B in margin debt (assume most of that are from retail investors). Once those margin calls trigger, watch out. Will be like 1999-2000 all over again.

NIO has a share unlock coming up. Forget the exact details as I never bought it. People should see a nice dip. —- SnowFlake has decreased like crazy since last month because it’s share unlocking. DraftKings went from the $60s to $34 last Oct. Knowing when recently gone public companies have restricted share unlocks can be profitable. —— Here’s a post from another web site. I know many of us trade stocks using insider share unlocking info. E.g. SNOW In my DKNG brokerage news feed, I saw a recap about the impact share unlocking had on that stock starting early Oct. Well it’s nothing new, it’s still nice quick read especially for newer investors. I did follow the share lock info for Oct & was lucky enough to make some nice profit buying, selling , rinse, & repeat. Basically traded my position 3x. Have the same amount of shares now that I started with on Oct. 1. Now the option strategy would have been more profitable but even as a seasoned investor, I didn’t go that route. Just used stop sell limits instead. Next time & w/ like SNOW, I will continue going to the options route. PLTR Is the next interesting one now with 80% being unlocked 3 days after the next earnings call announcement but I wonder if we will be seeing as much selling in this stock as the others. PLTR has their little cult following & unlock some IPOs & Direct Listings, they didn’t go public with only 10% of total shares. PLTR went with 20%. “Benzinga's PreMarket Prep airs every morning from 8-9 a.m. ET. During that fast-paced, highly informative hour, traders and investors tune in to get the major news of the day, the catalysts behind those moves and the corresponding price action for the upcoming session. On any given day, the show will cover at least 20 stocks determined by co-hosts Joel Elconin and Dennis **** along with producer Spencer Israel. There are many different catalysts that can move issues higher or lower. Some are obvious like earnings reports and rating changes, but some others are not as widely followed. For example, price action in an issue ahead of the day of a lock-up expiration. With that being said. DraftKings (NASDAQ: DKNG) is the PreMarket Prep Stock Of The Day. What Does A Lock-Up Expiration Mean? An IPO lock-up period is the term used to define a period of time after a company has gone public when major shareholders are prohibited from selling their shares. Lock-up periods usually last between 90 to 180 days and may vary for different types of shareholders. Once the lock-up period ends, most trading restrictions are removed. Typical Price Action Ahead Of Lock-Up Date: Some savvy investors track the lock-up expiration dates for all of the current IPOs and may take a short position ahead of the actual date in anticipation of large blocks of stock being for sale. Of course, there is no guarantee that any insider selling at all, but that does not necessarily delegitimize the point of the essence of the strategy. Another consideration that the preemptive sellers take into account is the previous price action ahead of the actual date. For example, if an issue has been in a prolonged downtrend, it is less likely that insiders will want to unload shares at a discount to its former price. Recent Price Action: Since bottoming on Oct. 30, 2020, at $34.90, DraftKings embarked on a $20 rally and finally peaked Dec. 18 at $55.98. After a few days of consolidation in the $52-$54 area, it had a significant down day on Dec. 28, falling from $52.11 to $48.98 on no news. It's impossible to determine if the retreat was just some good ole profit-taking or preemptive sellers ahead shorting the issue ahead of the lock-up expiration date. Continuation Move Lower Into Expiration: Interestingly, the issue drifted lower right into Tuesday's lock-up expiration. In fact, the issue reached its lowest level since its late December peak. After a lower open, it just breached Monday's low ($44.50) hitting $44.10 and sharply reversed course and ended the session at higher by nearly $3 at $47.50 and tacked on another $4 earlier today when it peaked at $51.80 and has sharply reversed course. As of 1 p.m. ET, it has retreated to the $49 area. Therefore, late sellers of the strategy that did cover early in Tuesday's session found themselves scrambling to cover in a rising market. PreMarket Prep Take On This Strategy: The producer of the show explained the scenario for DraftKings and cautioned that 'there is no guarantee that there is going to be large sellers on the actual date." Co-host Dennis **** discussed the 'anticipatory selling strategy." "Sellers that were waiting for a lot of follow-through beyond Monday's low ($44,50) got the rugged pulled out from under them as the issue rallied for the remainder of the session," he said.” Skip to 31:37

My 4 year old nephew asked for a LEGO Wayza Quest this Christmas. I told him I would sell one of mine for the bargain price of $250 cash because he was family. In other news, LEGO Shop at Home restocked some good Friends & HP sets that were unavailable for most of holiday GWP season.

Ebay store is shut down until the great mail fiasco of 2020 is over, tree is up, and presents are wrapped. So we treated ourselves to an afternoon matinee of "Galaxy Quest" today. Hubby is a huge Trekkie, so this is one movie where he'll stop everything and watch. And we both agree, Guy Fleegman is the hero we need right now. "Did you guys ever WATCH the show?!"

I consider myself a Libertarian more than a Republican, but since the Libertarian party never really has a chance, more often than not I vote Republican. I don't necessarily support Trump and I will be glad to be rid of his rhetoric, even if I did vote for him. As a veteran and someone who takes pride in our nation and the constitution I find it pretty sickening what happened on the 6th. What annoys me most of all is the silencing of free speech, especially from large tech. If large tech, such as Twitter YouTube or FB want to regulate who can say what on their sites then they are a publisher and should be accountable for every tweet or post. If they want to continue to be a "platform" and not be held accountable for anything posted then they should allow every individual to post whatever they want no matter how distasteful or incorrect the message may be. Same goes for every single forum or website on the internet in my opinion...

I really appreciate the metaphor. And it actually works really well too. In reality the differences between an Xbox and a PlayStation are extremely minute. So when you remove the illusion of choice, people can actually think about what they value. No wonder we were warned about partisanship.

Sometimes, it's easier to buy a new car versus a used car. My dealer wanted the whole cost up front so that's why it took some time.

Obviously hillbilly can be a term to describe an individual regardless of political opinion. If I were a strategist for the DNC, and used tactics not uncommon to what we do all around the world, I would have embedded individuals to instigate chaos and violence to push my objective. We will probably never know who paid who to do what but the vast majority of people out there were exercising one of greatest rights.

If enough people are pressed/pushing against a smaller number of people, that line will not hold. Now why the building can't truly be securely locked down is another question. I think it is similar to how over the years random individuals have gotten into the white house with ease (It's never been a problem before, so no one considers it a concern.)

Interested in these sets and hoping they look good. Oh man, my wallet is going to be hurtin'. 75303 - UCS Republic Gunship - $199.99 - 1794 pieces - May 4 Release 75306 - Imperial Probe Droid - $59.99 - 683 pieces - April 1 Release 75309 - MBS Attack on Endor - $349.99 - 2942 pieces - 2021 Release 75313 - UCS Death Star - $799.99 - 6844 pieces - 2021 Release

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Agree police held ground in certain areas but they were only threatened by body force and not weapons. Of course it could have been prevented. Ask why wasn’t it and there will be our answer hopefully someday

I've been waiting for this one. Last fall I sold my damaged box 75021 out of my personal "to build someday" stash. I wonder how many, if any, minifigures will come with this set?

Needed to remove LEGO image. They contacted us and asked us to remove it

repent and thou shalt be saved......

IXR on the ASX will likely be the worlds biggest clay rare earths deposit outside of China. Hard to get a read on what China actually have left. Rare earths market is hot. Another on the ASX is FYI. Mine and produce HPA (high purity alumina). Look up HPA and the worldwide demand for it. Both these have high probability of ten bagging.

Yep, nothing wrong with what they make. The valuation of what they make is loony though. People placing an astronomical amount of money on bets that they keep expanding and growing.

Ditto. Although I just moved a majority chunk of my 401k into a stable-value (cash equivalent) fund right before Christmas and invested in physical plastic. Reasoning: 1) Market did too well in 2020 given the Covid impact. Why? I think maybe folks dumped their discretionary income into the market in March and then FOMO took over when the market started heading up. I don't see any reason why the market should be at all-new highs. 2) Folks who invested in 2020 didn't sell because they didn't want to pay short-term gains. I think when March 2021 comes around, those one-year windows will cause a lot of people to consider cashing out their long-term gains. 3) Folks who have been putting off vacations or big-ticket purchases will be looking to pull money out in 2021 to pay for those items. 4) Covid impacts are far from certain. We don't know how effective the vaccine will be on the new strands. How much longer folks will be stuck at home. Etc... I left about a third of my 401k in the market just in case. I'll probably reinvest in the summer if the market has held strong or sooner if it has a correction before then. Outside my retirement, I did well with my personal account last year. I left a little in a couple of mutual funds, but cashed out most of my profits and sent Uncle Sam his share of the short-term gains. Much of the gains went into the stable LEGO fund. Ironically, I told myself a year ago I should get out of the LEGO business and just sell my remaining stock -- most of the profits from the 2019 holidays went into my stock account. Now the stock market pushed me back in and I acquired more LEGO inventory in 2020 than all of the years from 2013 when I started down this path. Free investment advice: Don't buy "retiring" stocks

You can sign up for daily emails of their trades. https://ark-funds.com/trade-notifications I use an app that tracks Ark buys / sells & %s history in more detail. Called “Lucid Ark ETF” in the Apple App Store.

I started buying stock in the last 2 years, and it's definitely a different way of thinking than typical LEGO investing. With LEGO, I'd tell myself I'd never pay MSRP for a set after snagging some at 50%-70% off. With that thinking, I can't get myself to buy more shares seeing the prices way up from previous purchases. Example, I had bought some NIO at $1.70 in Nov '19. Buying a share at $54 now would really sting, even if I believe it'll go higher. Then again, seeing most of our Daily Deals posts lately are retiring or TOOS sets at MSRP, maybe it's not too different.

Looks to me like the designer wants to make it seems like the top of the roof is catching sunlight while the bottom of the room is kind of still in the shade.

I couple more pics popped up. Look legit.

and we all know that's what she said

how about on of them ubiquitous "monolith" that pops up here and there?

Go ahead, what the heck.

I thought this one works as well:

luckily my maturity is stuck in high school so you should be good.