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Picked up a lot of stuff from a local 4184 - The Black Pearl 10210 - Imperial Flagship 10155 - Maersk Line Container Ship 10213 - Shuttle Adventure 10181 - Eiffel Tower 7939 - Cargo Train 75036 - Utapau Troopers 75018 - Jek-14's Stealth Fighter 75101 - First Order TIE Fighter 75082 - TIE Advanced Prototype Missing some mini-figs and some instructions but got a few boxes Should make my money back from the Eiffel Tower and Black Pearl alone

Ok, I understood the disconnect (I think). Trump expected to run vaccine distribution (perhaps the US government) like a company in the private sector. Ex: the CEO would give general directions to his/her senior team and it is up to the team to figure out the details. This goes down the chain, ie. Senior President of Marketing give his team of Senior Managers some directions (more precise / refined than the CEO's direction), but still let the Managers figure out the more detail logistics on their own. So on and so forth. However, the government does not work this way. Everything has to have precise detail instruction to the miniscule points. This is why they have a sub-committee of sub-committee to refine section 12.3.b.ii regarding distribution of item A under directive XYZ. (sorry I have to oversimplify the example ). The underlings are not expected to deduce general directions, they are expected to do exactly as the instructions given to them to do for their jobs. Since Biden's team is from inside the government, they are used to the way government works, not how private sector works. Two different systems with different expectations. Not a judgement of which one is better or worse. But I see why the majority of US government (including the Republicans) hated Trump. I also see why a lot of regular Americans, who do not work in government or understand how the government works, like Trump. Before you say anything, I know it is an oversimplification of a complex topic. I was trying to explain the problem, not creating a workable solution (you have to pay me tons of $$$$ to come up with that)

This was waiting for me in the driveway: I guess they only have one box size?

"As we await word on when President Biden will hold his first solo press conference, an analysis of the past 100 years shows he is behind his 15 most recent predecessors, who all held a solo press conference within 33 days of taking office." To be fair, how many other of those presidents took office immediately following a violent attack on the National Capital, replacing a deranged psychopath along with managing a global pandemic. There have been talks Biden wont agree to an address until there is a stimulus bill passed. Wow, no talk until progress is made! Thats my kinda of work. Nose down until the job is done, then maybe we can sit around the fireplace to discuss nuances and derivatives. A very STARK contrast of the past 4 years of blowing total smoke and peeing on all of us with nothing being accomplished and being told its just a light rain.

This. I don't get the folks that want to give Trump credit for something any president would have done under similar circumstances. Helping fund and expedite the creation of a vaccine is an absolute no brainer with zero political downside. You know what would've been even better? If he had also not downplayed the severity of the virus and helped turn common sense safety measures like masks and social distancing into a culture war about muh freedoms.

I actually think this is quite clear and well stated, so at least it makes sense to me (before you start getting attacked by everyone).

My expectation "standard" of the POTUS whenever he communicates: Does not make things worse Does not further divide the country Does not embarrass our country Does not blame another person or entity (The "buck" stops at the POTUS); unless it's another world leader deserving scrutiny I really don't give a flip about some arbitrary deadline to make an appearance

Just to be clear, I want the same standards applied to the previous presidents (not just Trump) to be applied to the new one (ie. consistency). Staying out of the media is not something President / leader / CEO should do in a time of crisis (ie, if the situation was a crisis when Trump was a president, it did not immediately change to normal just because a new president was elected).

Damn, i bought 25 of these for $60 a few years ago when it retired and forgot about them. Checked Amazon today and they are selling for $660?? Ebay is selling for $440 Best investment ever

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/27/ron-klain/trump-vaccine-plan-left-logistics-states-it-did-ex/ Technically, there was a plan. In may respects, it wasn't a good plan but there was something. The major issues stem from the lack of coordination and putting too much of the onus on the states to handle the logistics and delivery themselves. The major issues stemmed from lack of federal money assistance, further specifics about the vision and end goal, lack of communication and logistical concerns. There WAS a plan but it was at best, and basic outline and not clearly spelled entirely out of what was going to happen.

What's the problem again? Biden isn't doing enough news conferences? That's a good thing, no? A day with no politics is a good day.

Is it a crisis or is it not a crisis? There are actions that are expected from leaders in time of crisis regardless of their leadership preferences.

Wait, so your defense is he cannot walk and chew gum at the same time, therefore he is a good president I thought open communication is a good thing and we want president who can calm the masses down during crisis? The bolded line above is a definition of a crisis isn't it? So where is our illustrious leader? Yep. That was what I said. When all I want is consistency

Now this is funny!

I was told the hang up with the old Architecture sets was the IP license. The skylines don't have that issue. So more profits and less red tape for LEGO. Too bad LEGO isn't a German brick manufacturer, apparently they can build anything they want without worry of licenses.

Today's Target: crappy middle school science textbooks. Just worked through a science project on "Mechanical Advantage" with my middle-schooler. We struggled for 30min until I realized the **** textbook set the lab up wrong, and used a bad model for the problem. Wish I could find the idiot that wrote this lab up and give them a tongue-lashing.

The only two stuffed animals I ever bought at Disneyworld was Pooh and Tigger. Nuff' said.

Statements such as these confuse me. I remember In the early days of this, Trump banning travel from China (Biden called it racist), talking about it in his SOTU (the one Pelosi tore up), and Pelosi inviting people to come on down to San Francisco’s Chinatown. Serious, not political attack here - what am I missing? Because the “optics” to me say there was at least an attempt to do *something* on Trump’s part, while the D’s downplayed it. But what am I missing?

My mom, who lives in Iowa, received both doses before the end of January. I live in NJ, where I don't know any one who received a vaccine shot until early-Feb. So when people say "there was no plan," I don't think we can say that is true all over the country. Some states clearly picked up the ball (as was the apparent Trump plan) and ran with it. Other states were reluctant to do anything with the vaccine until Biden was in office. Cuomo and Murphy (Gov's NY and NJ) both said this. I believe them because I saw the count of how many vaccines had been delivered to NJ in December. But NJ apparently didn't do anything with them until February. Then they point the finger at Trump? *sigh* In the end, praise God we have vaccines. If it wasn't for the foresight of warp speed, we will still be waiting years (5-10) for one vaccine, let alone three. What warp speed did was took the results of phase 1 testing and instead of putting them on the bottom of the FDA approval stack, they went to the top and were processed immediately. So what would normally have taken years before phase 2 began only took weeks. The same for going from phase 2 to 3. This is why the vaccines were produced so fast. No testing was rushed, it all went at a normal speed. The paperwork wasn't even sped up. They just got to it much faster than they would normally. So can we finally move on from the blame game and just be thankful we have vaccines and the end of this cursed virus is near?

Taking prearranged questions with "safe" people is not making one's self "available". There are videos of at least one town hall meeting where a young woman said, "They wanted me to ask you [Mr. Biden] xxxx, but I really want to know what you think about yyyy." And then Biden stumbles in his answer. I believe Biden would have mopped the floor with Trump in 2016. But Biden is sadly not the same in 2021. The fire isn't there and his cognizant skills are definitely not the same as in 2016.

Wait a sec, did I ever equate Biden to a good president?? I simply said comparing his first 60 days in office to any other president would be a false sense of comparison. As for a good president, how could anyone say that a few months into a term? I will reserve judgement until his time has ended and we can look back in analysis through a lens of retrospect. A president willing to stay out of the media and get to work in the midst of a crisis/challenge is a much different tune than immediately picking up his cell to regurgitate tweet out rhetoric and most of the time flat out lies. This change may take some time getting use to. I can tell you where he is not, on twitter throwing a hissy fit.

To be fair, the nuance pointed out in the article is that Biden has both taken questions and made himself available in at least one town hall format and the right has taken this narrative and catastrophized it. While I agree his age is troubling, I think its more or less political move on Biden's part in terms of not wanting to piss off Manchin or some other swing vote right before the stimulus bill goes up.

this might be good investment if not allowed in China

Was able to get into Dave Portnoy’s (barstool) stock (BUZZ) that he partnered around .70 cents and blew up this morning to $24...easiest $20K made in 2 hours.

Finished up this bad boy last night. I’m loving the older builds/colors lately. Starting to notice what many have stated before, how the little parts in newer sets have become excessive.

Thats the problem the Fox News crowd has in common; being EASILY CONFUSED. If you dont get it by now nobody is going to be able to explain it to you There were countries who leadership took it seriously was truthful and transparent with their citizens and did not politicize and encourage people to not wear masks and then there was US. The proof is in the numbers compare our numbers with other countries this was due to leadership and lack their of.

Wait, you are serious? "Mein Kampf" was a book written by a certain man with funny mustache from Germany. He lead a certain party post WW1 and throughout WW2. I mean you can google it but probably not from a work computer

You were lucky to get bubble wrap envelopes, lately they just shipped my orders in plain plastic envelopes.

Yes, I want standards. Is that so hard to ask? I am tired of everyone in R camp complains about president from D camp while not using the same standards to hold R president accountable. And vice versa.

I have returned 5 crushed sets in the past two weeks. Amazon shipping on anything small is basically a bubble wrap envelope. Terrible.

Just to be clear, each president set their own standards. It’s from their actions we form our expectations. Staying out of the limelight while work is being done(especially bipartisan) can be a good thing. We tend to forget that when we are inundated by mass media and the past presidency. Why do you think even CNN is huffing about this? Because they don’t get the views/clicks, they need headlines=$. More important to them than actually getting legislation done for the average person.

I had one...sold one for $1100.00.

I can’t argue with his cognitive skills, but it was pretty clear in the election what we were getting in terms of a 78 year old president. The article points out that Biden has repeatedly made himself available to reporters from Fox and answered their questions.

With so much attention brought to this set and extra chances to hoard, the ceiling may not be as high as we hope. Furthermore, buying at retail or at a slight discount may not leave enough meat on the bone for a worthwhile profit. Sometimes we underestimate our shipping & fees when thinking about our profit. This set also has an oversized box for your average $50 set. BTW Lego LEGO Shop at Home has these back in stock, limit of 3.

I don’t disagree and have probably said enough on the subject then I really care about. But the quicker it gets off the shelves the better it will do.

I like the architecture sets as investments. They have done great as a overall line for me. Sure there are some ones that have not appreciated as much as others but you have not lost money on any of them. And as a side, I have a sealed version of every single set of mainstream architecture sets in storage. Only big one I'm missing... which isn't mainstream... is the Marina Bay sands. Even got one of the original Hancocks from when Adam was selling them before Lego took over the line. I want to get him to sign that one for me.

Fixed if for ya. If its for sale, 100% has to be legal😄

It's possible that winter sets have longer than 2 year runs, but I think given that both Gingerbread House and Elf House are both popular maybe lego will just do FIFO. The Winter Train Station went out before the Winter Train and it seems they don't keep 3 sets in production normally. Anyways if you can get discounted sets no harm buying a few and try to sell them for above RRP whilst slowly stocking up. You really don't want to wait until Q4 to start trying to buy the Gingerbread Houses.

I fixed this to make it relevant to me She has seen it and already told me she's buying it the first day.

How did you get in at 70 cents?

Hmm, I would be down with Death Star showerhead

Can’t wait for the Star Wars carbon freezing chamber bidet to be released. Disney really has its **** together.

Well, this is a pleasant surprise. I never really expected this backorder to happen.

My only complaint about the character was the whole darksaber thing. She found it, trained with it, only to give it away to Bo Katan. WTF Check out the price of the original Phantom

Gingerbread House shipped from LEGO Shop at Home I think it was ordered late Jan

New bulk, picked this up for $30 on fbm. Had to do some light cleaning and only a few missing pieces nothing critical. MTron sets were very nostalgic. The Unitron sets will most likely go in the personal collection. Star Hawk II 1789 Space Station Zenon 1793 Celestial Forager 6896 Beacon Tracer 6833 Sharks crystal Cave 6190 (missing sub)

To be fair to people saying goodbye - the forum is nice and all, but it was the Brickfolio that made Brickpicker the go-to site for LEGO investing. Lots of tangible data rather than just another forum where people share opinions. I'm still holding out hope, but even as an ardent supporter of this website - you've got to agree that it's missing a vital piece for much longer than anyone ever thought possible. I'm not going anywhere, but I see why people are frustrated and looking to other sites to support their investing habit.

The Architecture theme is fine - The problem is the post life hordes that are happy to earn $5 on their investment.