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Makes you think that LEGO knows what their doing when they don’t approve these types of projects.

Looks like other than Castle and Boat, the others are struggling to hit 10K. Don't know about you but to me it suggests that "real" demand from end consumers isn't there, which also suggests that perhaps "investors" make up a larger slice of the pie than they realize (or care to admit). Still two weeks to go but orders haven't changed much in a week, and the hype has gone

I actually never said it wasn't a good experience, it was a delightful conversation actually, just had a poor result because they can't do anything once it goes to 'In Warehouse' Heaven forbid we share our 'order status' stories in the appropriate thread.

I'm relatively new to Honey, so not sure if this is applicable to everyone or just certain folks. There looks to be another promo for certain lego sets. It is equivalent to about 12% and there are 63 sets eligible for this. Offer is good through next 19hrs as well. Here is the link I have: https://www.joinhoney.com/explore/popular/lego shop/E9DXCzE8d_114

Every industry is feeling it. Covid, labor shortages, regulations, manipulations to take advantage of the current circumstances. Delays and prices going through the roof because of it. I contracted a new patio back in March. Been waiting for parts and last I heard it will be installed this month. Have a Jeep that parts were ordered for back in February. Some parts came in but last I heard they are hopeful for September. I have another business where I have to keep a storage area to carry extra inventory because we don't know what we will be shorted on week to week. Need new Toyos but no inventory . . . I actually never even think to wonder where my Lego is. When it comes it comes . . .

I agree 100%. For the most part the people on here are able to engage in overall nuanced conversation without retorting to nastiness. It has largely become a place where I can make a statement without everyone losing their mind, and I hope that it stays this way. This community is almost less about Lego for me now than it ever was (don't get me wrong, I still am a huge fan).

My daughter and I loved building this. Very detailed and stylish. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

TLG has little to gain by a "retiring soon" moniker, besides selling the duds.

Not going to wade into this topic, but this has always been one of my favorite posts I found on FB. "The average adult with no chess training will beat the average five year old with no chess training 100 games out of 100 under normal conditions. The average 1600 Elo rated player – who'll probably be a player with several years of experience – will beat that average adult 100 games out of 100. A top “super” grand master will beat that 1600 rated player 100 games out of 100. This distribution is pretty similar across other domains which require purely mental rather than physical skill, but it's easy to measure in chess because there's a very accurate rating system and a record of millions of games to draw on. Here's what that means. The top performers in an intellectual domain outperform even an experienced amateur by a similar margin to that with which an average adult would outperform an average five year old. That experienced amateur might come up with one or two moves which would make the super GM think for a bit, but their chances of winning are effectively zero. The average person on the street with no training or experience wouldn't even register as a challenge. To a super GM, there'd be no quantifiable difference between them and an untrained five year old in how easy they are to beat. Their chances are literally zero. What's actually being measured by your chess Elo rating is your ability to comprehend a position, take into account the factors which make it favorable to one side or another, and choose a move which best improves your position. Do that better than someone else on a regular basis, you'll have a higher rating than them. So, the ability of someone like Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk or Hikaru Nakamura to comprehend and intelligently process a chess position surpasses the average adult to a greater extent than that average adult's ability surpasses that of an average five year old. Given that, it seems likely that the top performers in other intellectual domains will outperform the average adult by a similar margin. And this seems to be borne out by elite performers who I'd classify as the “super grandmasters” of their fields, like, say, Collier in music theory or Ramanujan in mathematics. In their respective domains, their ability to comprehend and intelligently process domain-specific information is, apparently – although less quantifiably than in chess – so far beyond the capabilities of even an experienced amateur that their thinking would be pretty much impenetrable to a total novice. This means that people's attempts to apply “common sense” - i.e., untrained thinking – to criticize scientific or historical research or statistical analysis or a mathematical model or an economic policy is like a five year old turning up at their parent's job and insisting they know how to do it better. Imagine it. They would not only be wrong, they would be unlikely to even understand the explanation of why they were wrong. And then they would cry, still failing to understand, still believing that they're right and that the whole adult world must be against them. You know, like “researchers” on Facebook. That's where relying on "common sense" gets you. To an actual expert you look like an infant having a tantrum because the world is too complicated for you to understand. And that, my friends, is science."

Further 2021+ retirements lists on Brickfanatics: Marvel IDEAS Creator Expert

yay another clown flooding the market with resellers. bravo

Going to post the "new" Daily Deals feed here for testing, feedback. I am working on adding more shops as well (Kohls, Best Buy, Macy's)

Why would I get upset with someone who isn't at fault for the problem? I recall that I spent the hour on hold doing chores around the house. You said it yourself that you've only had good experiences with Lego CS. I remember we both had a laugh about how silly it was that I waited all that time and she couldn't help me as it switched to In Warehouse while I was on hold. She told me that the reason for the December shipping delays was problems getting the packages to shipping facilities and the orders were just piling up in semi-trailers. At any rate, flipped the 'Iconic Chess Set' a few months later for a profit, no harm done. The 'In Warehouse' thing is bollocks, though, especially when they know there will be a shipping delay. In the present: Do y'all think there are actually that many additional orders right now to cause this delay? Perhaps GEODIS (their fulfillment partner in Romeoville) is shifting or upgrading the warehouse or something to prep for a big holiday season and that's why orders from the 1st and 2nd of August are just going out. It's actually BECAUSE they use a third-party logistics company in GEODIS that they can't cancel orders once they are In Warehouse.