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Live now @ $55: https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Technic-THE-BATMAN-BATMOBILE-42127-Model-Car-Building-Toy-2022-Movie-Set-Superhero-Gifts-for-Kids-and-Teen-Fans-with-Light-Bricks/768063138 More deals here: https://www.walmart.com/shop/deals/toys/brand-deals?facet=brand%3ALEGO

I was trying to break 2 hours today but didn’t have it in me. My mind said let’s go but my legs were done. Amazing how the athletes in Chicago did double the distance in the same time. I am striving to do Boston 2024 in 4 hours.

Doing my part to help reverse coral reef loss. This one won't melt until 221 degrees. Good luck big oil.

It was last night but had the privilege yet again of seeing Alice Cooper.....For those of you who haven't had the chance to see him i highly recommend it

The 9525 Pre Vizsla's Mandalorian Fighter bought on eBay. Had the Mandalorian Death Watch Warrior minifigure in my collection to add to it. I thought the lighting was better. Side by side comparison with the 75316 Mandalorian Starfighter;

Talk about set fatigue, here are another 185 options oh, and they just announced 3 more rounds for 2024! https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/main.page

I've seen the Crue and Def Leppard both many times and it's always an amazing show.....Sucks Mick is gone now due to some royalties lawsuit against the other 3 members of the band

That's correct according to the October 2023 Lego Sets Retiring on BrickFanatics

Sold one of my last remaining minty fresh Lego Architecture Fallingwaters for 570 on Amazon. That set has been good to me.

Definitely, the show should almost always try to keep the best around. For that I go back to a Star Wars episode that was in season 1 where they did large diorama's where two teams knocked it out of the park, while the team that ended up winning the season, their build was not great at all (the Hoth creation). I have no doubt the producers were thinking, we have to keep this team around cause we can't have the two teams left compete as one team is not nearly as good as the other. Can't wait for next week. So nice to have a show away from youtube where my kids want to sit and watch it with me.

of course. they repeat everything. who knows when/if on a particular version but there will be more . . .

I have one, too many?

He is still great! Saw him again on the Crue/Leppard tour a couple months ago.

Can't get much closer, great job!

I decided to buy the bookshop today. I'm not sure if this one is retiring or not, but I hadn't picked this one up yet. Had some lego point sitting around, and the maze is netting about 30.00 on ebay, and the halloween pack is netting around 10. So, figured with 40.00 worth of promos, this was better than buying it at 2x VIP points. I'm hoping the Police Station is still around at the end of this month with the Moving Van promo. I plan on buying that one too for investment.

I recently came across a design in the MOC pop-up store that interested me, and thought I'd share my experience thus far... The design holds ~700 unique elements, and ~3200 pieces over-all. The build is comparable to a $300 production set, so I decided to pursue it. Unfortunately, so far, the auto-cart mechanism is falling waaaaay short. On the model page it estimates a price of ~$480. When I click on "Purchase", it claims first off that Lego's Pick-a-Brick is not available for this model. It then gives me three options: international (lowest piece price) $580; fewest orders $745; US stores only $690. None of these estimates include shipping/handling. Bricklink doesn't give the option to exporting the parts list, but one can populate the carts and export those. I merged them into single wanted list, and priced it out in brickstore where the total cost based on average part sold price is ~$345. In brickstore, one can sort by either per-piece cost, and total lot cost. So far, I've found 28 of the highest-cost parts on PaB (208 total pieces), where the savings is ~$22 ($43 on PaB w/ free shipping, $65 based on bricklink sold prices w/o shipping costs included). So, I'm a 4% of the way through the parts list, and have already saved ~40% on some of the highest cost items by going through LEGO PaB. Presuming I can get the rest on bricklink in 4-5 stores, I can probably source the parts for under $400. I must say, I'm a bit disappointed. The dream of pushing a few clicks and then having a MOC show up in 3-4 boxes is appealing, but the higher cost to me doesn't justify relying on the automation. And if the buyer has a significant spare parts inventory, then it makes sense to go through to carts/parts list anyway to further reduce the cost. I find it's easier to do this through brickstore and wanted lists rather than in-cart. I'm rating the MOC pop-up store a 'miss'. The biggest miss is that the automated cart chose to skip Lego's PaB, even though many of the most expensive parts are available there. Haven't yet decided if I'll go ahead an order it. If I do, I'll post an update with the final cost.

Who knew that Mary Jane lost out to a bounce house.

Visited a nice Toys R Us like store in Canton, OH yesterday. Lots of retired LEGO and all other major collectible brands with pricing between EBay and Amazon.