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I almost completed my arcade corner in the garage. I told my wife it was for the kids but we all know the truth. I am waiting for a flourescent arcade/bowling alley carpet to arrive then add some black lights and wall art.

I had a score at the local thrift store last week. Long sentimental story ahead. I moved to Japan a few years ago it's been rough not being able to see my family due to Covid. My mother, who always enabled my LEGO addiction, has been taking me to Lego clearance since I was 10 years old. She doesn't know much about Lego but she loves hunting, scanning and only occasionally stashing sets through the aisles. 2020 was the first year we couldn't do that together, and it hit me really hard. On top of that, Lego is really expensive in Japan. REALLY expensive. There's no logic to it, but the smaller sets are usually less accessible than the more expensive ones. I've stockpiled a lot of good US online deals (per you guys) but I've just had to ship them to my parents and hope one day the pandemic ends to build them. So last week, I bike to the thrift store. Japanese thrift stores are great because they take care of their stuff, but they're expensive as all get out. Only like 10-30% cheaper than retail. I don't have much money since I'm just stopping in for Pokemon stuff for my friend. I'm browsing and see a crate on the floor. There is a sealed bag of bricks sticking out, and my LEGO alarm explodes. I pick it up. The entire crate is full of sets. Almost all the Overwatch sets, the entirety of Mario's first wave, the Ninjago set with Akita, a Friends set with a pink narwhal. Knowing Japanese kids, every set seems 100% complete (the extra pieces are even in a small zip in each bag). I am beyond excited. I tally it up. It's a lot but I can do it. It'll fit it in my bike basket. I think. Yeah, my balance is good enough. Wait. WAIT. I don't have enough cash. I had to hobble over to the counter, the only foreigner in either the store or rural Japan, with a year's supply of LEGOs. In my childish Japanese, I have a one-sided toddler conversation with the cashier. It's mostly grunting and pleading with my eyes. She just nods along to my sentences, which scares me that I'm making zero sense. "ATM money machine have here?" "Me cross street, get money from magic money box, okay?" "Watchy watchy Lego pwease? No sell other to manchildren, pwease?" I hand the entire stash over the counter, pray to God she understood me and book it. I jaywalk across the street because I gotta there before the ATM closes (yes, that's a thing in Japan). I am almost hit by a car but I must survive. I dash back, sweaty and war-torn. Every other Japanese person is looking at the deranged foreign animal, grunting and chanting BRICKS BRICKS BRICKS. I seize my prize from behind the counter and fling the cash over, texting my mom that I need to call her and tell her the good news. She thinks I have gotten engaged. I tell her it's better than that. All in all, I paid about 200 for everything. I know that these prices are not great by American standards but this would be at least 1000 dollars worth of LEGO if purchased new in Japan (and that's pretty much the only way to get it here). Now I can build and play and wonder how to get it all back to the states.

Not quite the same as your issue, but we had a downspout that was flooding our side yard/berm. So we routed the water by building a dry creek bed…pretty easy DIY, and not expensive at all. Dug a small trench, lined it with landscape fabric, laid down some gravel, then some larger rocks. Then we lined the edges with some larger stones…which made it look nicer, and also keeps us from running over the area accidentally with the lawnmower.

My 11 year old son bought 10 shares of Roblox. Paid $66.75 per share. He only had enough money to pay me 10% of the amount. Wait until I hit him with a margin call.

When I realized the average age of music in my playlist is older than the average age of high school graduates

Based on the quality of music, no. Based on how much time has passed, yes.

261 after hours today, I had a friend of mine yesterday tell me that there was still money to be made even if I bought in at $200 and I told him he was nuts. Shows what I know.

I'm not in this to beat the man as much as I am to pad my IRA. But there's clearly nothing suspicious about a stock steadily growing all day to be up 40% ($100+) to down 20% (-$50) in 30 minutes.

This didn't age well. Bailed out at ~300 during the first dip, will buy back in when it plateaus

Better pic but can’t make out the set number

I'm more than quadruple my investment. I just keep adjusting my stop loss upwards for when it eventually crashes. Wish I would have been insane like the apes and YOLO'd, but I have more than enough to be happy with the return anyways. My Roth is happy anyways.

wth. you know, i had 3d/augmented reality when i was a kid back in the 80's. it was called lego

I'd make a stink out of it. With managed payments now the seller isn't getting screwed by PayPal keeping their fee which is probably why they were doing this. I once had to block a buyer about 8 different times. Basically for the same thing.

Psssh. Follow the WSB motto: Buy high, sell higher!

Just got this notification from target app! Carnage helmet available for pre-order tomorrow at 8am cst

Keep holding buddy...it’s coming.

better pic came to my email:

Likely the ongoing SEC and Justice dept. investigation into market manipulation and that no sane person would say that the company’s valuation at a staggering $17 billion is anywhere near reality.

Halted (again) at 262. Congrats to the people re-bought at $180?

I Clicked on the notification and it went nowhere! Curious if target jumped the gun on this set. No info yet

$297 It touched the moon and is heading for outer space 🤦‍♂️

No, but if you use the same eBay id to sell and buy then the answer is maybe

The Thrawn Phantom prices only increased since the Covid bump. They were still languishing on Amazon at $50'ish until close to Summer 2020.

200 is not a bad deal for the lot I think. Anyways do you use http://legojapan.seesaa.net/, it has a list of the current deals. rakuten has some deals from time to time also. Take care of yourself mate, I haven't been able to go back to my home country in two years as well. The pandemic will likely end this year and hopefully we have some kind of normality. Video call your folks! 30 years ago we have to use letters!!

The latest one 71705. The deal was sort of a one off. I've pm'd you

Bonsai & Flowers at LEGO Shop at Home

I disagree. While it would have been much better if it had faced an early retirement it's been pretty easy to find at 20% off and has a good/rare group of figures and is a good unique model of an AT-ST.

Depending on how it’s pronounced in the series, I don’t think they’ll be selling a lot of Sisu in Poland ...

FYI my other amazon orders were 07 R1 all others were 51 R0

And people wonder why retailers hate resellers......

Lol, I was waiting for GME to go back down to sub $50, but it actually went up to $195. I guess I am a bad gambler

Inspirational message to start your week:

I look forward to seeing the new version of the site, along with some of it's old features that have been upgraded. That being said, while I don't want to speak for Jeff, I will tell you that serious family illnesses over the past year within Jeff's immediate family has taken up much of Jeff's time. This is besides the added workload from his normal job due to the Covid BS. Jeff would never say anything, but I thought it was time to give people some heads up as to why certain site issues have not been addressed.

I still like flowers 😊

I have never seen a cliff that steep

You block a bidder an ebay for non-payment and they change their ID and bid/win on another auction a few weeks later- and don't pay for that one either... both $150+...

Bought a bulk lot locally for $50 because I happened to notice this sitting on the top in the photo. Unfortunately, there were no other pieces to this figure or even any other pieces to 7163 as far as I can tell. Bummer, but there is enough other stuff in it that I should be able to make a small profit. Can't win them all I guess.