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Haven’t been building much recently so figured I would get back into it with my first ever Duplo set that I got from the Amazon $64 sale. This is the 5th largest Duplo set ever, 2 castles I never saw before must be huge and 2 parts packs. Not bad at all some of the parts are pretty amazing and it is a 2 in 1. Just broke it down and boxed it up to send to my grandson. Next up is the Tallneck.

I would only want the house of he world for investing purposes and $250 even with the 2 extras is way to high to justify it. Remember there are leftover blacktrons that will reappear at some point in the future. You can get the tribute to the lego house for $25 shipped now!

No go for me either, and I am usually a sucker for “LIMITED EDITION” printed on the box. I was going to get the Jazz Club for my modular collection, some more Otters to go with the A Frame and burn a $100 reward but it just doesn’t seem worth it.

He probably just needs something to soothe his achy breaky heart

Best performance in that tribute concert IMHO

Just had this GSP purchase come through and I have some questions.

I agree with you my friend....Forestmen GWP and HP Staircase were (2) of the best GWP deals last year by far.......I got (4) of each and my only regret is i didn't get more As far as the house i imagine it will be released later this year especially if sales are slow these next 10 days....$250 is very steep for a buy in unless Rakuten is 15 percent or Double VIP Points Unless they release more stuff in the sale department i'll probably sit out this round.....As always YMMV

thanks so are you dropping 1k to get all four houses when they release ?

Forestmen GWP buy in was $150, $190 for Blacktron was pushing it. I also heard the $250 house would be available again later in the year but not sure if that will actually happen as same person said that it was going to be a VIP points reward. That would be nice if you could get it with points later in the year. Don’t forget I think you get the rabbit set as well, but it can be purchased outright for $10 at other retailers. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/year-of-the-rabbit-40575

I'm mostly surprised that Blacktron is still available. Did they make more after the Forestmen complaints or is stuff not selling? Neither gwp is terribly enticing. Not for me, and I'm guessing for the market as well. Although both could be worse. I'm guessing about 20% of the buy in (unless you got lucky on cancelled sets). Compare that to the Ideas sailboat, which was (one of) the first gwp that had a very high buy in ($250, iirc) and is netting maybe 10%. Compare that to some of the Harry Potter sets, they are 50% and better.

much appreciated I am curious from a personal collection sort of thing though looking at the house and knowing it is coming back again later what is your interest level in having a black tron ? mine is a 10 what is your interest level in having one of those houses ? mine is maybe a 5 so I think hands down if it is a choice of one or the other I would choose blacktron

Houses of the world sets will be fine but the only thing is the buy in is $250 whereas blacktron is $190.........If they were the same or even it was $200 that would make a difference at least in my opinion.....Blacktron seems to be holding solid at $50 bucks.....Too early to tell what the houses of the world will bring.....And as i mentioned earlier rakuten is 10% cash back today as well

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I bought Twinkly lights from them this Christmas and all was well. Seems like a local company.

I thought you were an Importer/Exporter 🤣 Glad to see more of the new Sand Green Foliage elements.

That's a lot of hammers.

Santa brought us that and I plan to start it, however there's a Sanctum Santorum first. I hope you enjoy it, it looks great. Yay LEGO!

I want to say we, but my 10yo son built the Haunted House and finished it in three days. I bought this loose set years ago and finally got around to building it. I can see why it's so well-liked. It looks amazing as a standalone house and my son loves how detailed the interior is.