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Gen Xers can't be helped

PSA for those who have a regular Kroger (or Kroger company brand like Dillon's, Smiths, Fry's etc) nearby. The Seasonal section is being reset for Valentine's day but my local Kroger still had leftovers from Christmas. No price labels to be found, but most scanned 70-90% off, including: 41949 DOTS bag tags (w letters) MSRP $29.99, rings up for $3 (90% off) 41944 DOTS candy kitty bracelet and bag tag MSRP $14.99, rings up for $1.50 (90% off) 71760 ninjago jay's thunder dragon evo MSRP $19.99, rings up for $6 (70% off) A few kinds of DOTS bracelets incl 41923 MSRP $5.99, ring up at $1.80 (70% off) 71396 Bowser Jr's Clown Car MSRP $9.99, rings up for $3 (70% off) There were other sets as well that were not discounted, so do check. Sent from my SM-A326U1 using Tapatalk

yes 100% fbm. i am not lowest price but i am the quickest delivery which for me means UPS ground. about half an hour after i posted i sold one for $270. i always list them 1x at a time. once you list them 2-3 or more there is no urgency to buy from you since its not "the last one". lol.

brickfanatics droped 23 retiring list. was pretty spot on last year, some surprices as a lot of 1 year sets. 10255 Assembly Square £259.99 / $299.99 / €299.99 4,002 January 1, 2017 10265 Ford Mustang £149.99 / $169.99 / €169.99 1,471 March 1, 2019 10266 NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 1,087 June 1, 2019 10270 Bookshop £169.99 / $199.99 / €199.99 2,504 January 1, 2020 10273 Haunted House £259.99 / $299.99 / €299.99 3,231 June 1, 2020 10276 Colosseum £474.99 / $549.99 / €549.99 9,036 November 27, 2020 10280 Flower Bouquet £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99 756 January 1, 2021 10289 Bird of Paradise £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 1,173 June 1, 2021 10290 Pickup Truck £114.99 / $129.99 / €129.99 1,677 October 1, 2021 10292 The Friends Apartments £159.99 / $179.99 / €179.99 2,048 June 1, 2021 10293 Santa’s Visit £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 1,445 October 1, 2021 10299 Real Madrid – Santiago Bernabéu Stadium £344.99 / $399.99 / €399.99 5,876 March 1, 2022 10306 Atari 2600 £209.99 / $239.99 / €239.99 2,352 August 1, 2022 10497 Galaxy Explorer £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 1,254 August 1, 2022 40516 Everyone is Awesome £30.99 / $34.99 / €34.99 346 June 1, 2021 76989 Horizon Forbidden West: Tallneck £79.99 / $89.99 / €89.99 1,222 May 1, 2022

I am not a Gen Xer, but do remember the Animaniacs. Maybe unrelated, Pinky and the Brain was an awesome show with a lot of references for adults.

Perhaps my inner child is poking through, somehow seeing real world supercars in LEGO form seem like a few mods away from cruising through a cyberpunk cityscape against a hazy purple sunset. Also, these rides look fast standing still. Hot damn. (Yes, that is the point of a supercar but I'll say it anyway.) Still lovin' the piece usage this line has embraced. Continues to be sticker hell though. Haha. The Ferrari here feels like the least flashy of the bunch while the Pagani's driver has the most personality.

what crazy is my kid ; never heard of Bugs Bunny; Donald Duck or pppporky pig I know the relatively recent LaBron Space Jam reboot happened....but other than that I think WB has seriously let this (once huge; threatening Disney) IP die I mean teh Animaniacs were great...I find myself humming tunes from that series all the time...and even started to explain Pinky & the Brain to my boy. Lake Tittitkakka, Lake Tittikaka...it's between Bolivia and brazil

Same code for my Batwing received today.

Finally tested negative for COVID today after 14 days of testing positive Three family members healthy now, one to go after two weeks of it. It was a Christmas to remember, or forget.

One of the inherent advantages that many of us here have is that our knowledge of the secondary market doesn't start in 2019/2020 like so many of the new "investors" out there. I chuckled at a lot of the "common wisdom" that I saw so many expert-in-their-own-minds spout on Facebook groups and elsewhere over the last year. Like how the Walmart Black Friday brick boxes were quite possibly one of the dumbest things to buy because (a) there were no minifigures, (b) there is nothing "collectible" about them, (c) there were so many available on Black Friday, etc., etc....or that Duplo is a complete waste of time because it's just made for kids. I suspect that there are quite a few people who stocked up on Grand Hotel, but probably not as many as stocked up on Batwing, the Star Wars 3-set combo pack at Walmart, classic Batmobile, or any of the other of the handful of sets that all of the newbies were chasing this year. I went heavy on both the Grand Hotel and Shopping Mall as well as long list of sets that I never saw mentioned a single time by any of the newly-minted experts.

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