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Torael_7 posted:Someone brought this to my attention today. I'll never get sick of looking at this. The little star destroyer ramming the space kraken is my favourite bit!
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The shopgoodwill auction ended. For $1602.01. Holy poo poo. That's basically Bricklink value for Market Street+Cafe Corner+Green Grocer with bricklink-completed partlists. No guarantee that the valuable bits will even be in that lot.
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Apr 12, 2013 02:37
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Pyroclastic posted:The shopgoodwill auction ended. I bid on it a little when it was low, but there's no way I'd go above $1000. The sets are probably complete except for a few random pieces, but you could be out a lot of coin if it's the wrong random pieces. There was a lot of risk there.
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Apr 12, 2013 04:03
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Well, this is how the wife and I spent our evening (we both worked on a tower, since you have to build 2 of them):
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Apr 12, 2013 04:57
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Mr. Glass posted:Well, this is how the wife and I spent our evening (we both worked on a tower, since you have to build 2 of them): Such an awesome set, you should add a Kraken attack to it as well.
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Apr 12, 2013 05:12
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The days of getting a truly good deal from the goodwill auction site are gone. Too many people know about it already. Ebay market is a lot more competitive that a few years ago as well.
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Apr 12, 2013 05:35
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USA Today running a frontpage business article about "the art of investing in Legos" probably didn't help that!
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Apr 12, 2013 09:15
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Examples! 8421 mobile crane, msrp $149, currently goes for about $475 new 8285-1 tow truck, msrp $119, currently goes for about $478 new 8275 motorized bulldozer, msrp $149, currently goes for about $470 new 8448 super street sensation, msrp $129, currently goes for about $350 new. Going older, the $159 msrp 8480-1 space shuttle is around $360 8880-1 supercar, $129 msrp, currently goes for about $310 new. Slightly newer, the 8043-1 motorized excavator (2010, msrp $199) is already going for around $245 No doubt 41999 co-creation boss crawler, being a limited edition of 20,000, exclusively at lego, and the first co-creations model, is going to go for big bucks in the future. It's a shame, those are all so cool, and I'd love to have them in my collection, but $470 for the 8275 motorized bulldozer is just way too much.
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Apr 12, 2013 09:45
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I'm sitting on my 3300003 Lego store set for the meanwhile for just that reason.
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Apr 12, 2013 12:57
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Lizard Combatant posted:Such an awesome set, you should add a Kraken attack to it as well. My friend and I used Shelob and some Harry Potter spiders. Shelob likes to eat buses, you see.
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Apr 13, 2013 07:09
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rickiep00h posted:My friend and I used Shelob and some Harry Potter spiders. Shelob likes to eat buses, you see. Pictures please.
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Apr 13, 2013 07:12
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Thinking of grabbing a Lego City Garbage Truck (4432) to go on my dresser. I've already got a dozen or so of the minifigs on my dresser, so it might be kind of fun to have something a little bigger there.
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Apr 13, 2013 17:00
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Lizard Combatant posted:Pictures please.  This was before the Hagrid's Hut spiders, which are exactly large enough to fit across the roadway or the cables. (I had a set and my friend had a set, so we had two of them, plus the assorted baby spiders from those sets as well.)
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Apr 13, 2013 18:09
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QuarkMartial posted:Thinking of grabbing a Lego City Garbage Truck (4432) to go on my dresser. I've already got a dozen or so of the minifigs on my dresser, so it might be kind of fun to have something a little bigger there. Nice set, unclear why it has recycling logo stickers on it since they have a separate recycling truck set. I like the trucks, but they do a get a bit same-y after you build a few.
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smackfu posted:Nice set, unclear why it has recycling logo stickers on it since they have a separate recycling truck set. Looking at it and the other set I wouldn't mind having (the Octan City Tanker, 60016) I can see how they all start to be the same. Frankly, I don't have room for my big sets - some of the older Star Wars ones and a couple of Technic sets. I used to have a bunch more, but a younger brother and all that jazz.
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rickiep00h posted:My friend and I used Shelob and some Harry Potter spiders. Shelob likes to eat buses, you see. All microscale builds can be improved with monsters.  So I got my own apartment and that meant I could finally bring down my old collection from my parents' place and combine it with my new one! I sorted through most of my old stuff today and now the tip of my left index finger is sore. It was a challenge finding the right number of catergories and estimating the volume of each category. And of course actually sorting stuff into said categories. Like this thing. Hinge piece, window/cockpit or misc? I'm also realizing it's going to be difficult finding the right plates with my current division between rectangular and non-rectangular. Does anyone have any tips on how to sort plates further? I'm thinking of a breaking point at 4 studs' length. I may have gone a bit over board with the number of categories but I get some perverse sense of satisfaction from sorting things, so. 
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I was looking online and I saw a very cool looking Captain America shield! It was adult sized and something I would like very much to build. Is there a website of sorts in which I can find out what pieces I need? Or is something like that people do not post?
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Apr 13, 2013 22:31
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I found this today. Looks to be complete, and the controller still works. Has the software, instructions, test pad and USB IR receiver, think it's worth anything?
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Apr 13, 2013 23:35
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The Rage posted:I found this today. Looks to be complete, and the controller still works. Has the software, instructions, test pad and USB IR receiver, think it's worth anything? You might want to fix that, it's wrecking the tables
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Apr 13, 2013 23:42
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Karnegal posted:You might want to fix that, it's wrecking the tables I wish every image over a certain size would just timg itself instantly.
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Apr 14, 2013 00:04
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Karnegal posted:You might want to fix that, it's wrecking the tables Sorry about that. Uploaded it from my phone so it didn't look hosed up to me.
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Apr 14, 2013 00:27
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This is exactly what I wanted to see. Needs more spiders though!
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Lizard Combatant posted:This is exactly what I wanted to see. Needs more spiders though! I thought I had a shot floating around with all of them, but I'll have search deeper. Maybe I'll have it tomorrow!
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Apr 14, 2013 04:25
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Built the garbage truck tonight, and I have to say I'm a little disappointed with it for a kind of silly reason. It's kind of nitpicky, but I thought it had two exhaust stacks, not one. It's got the space for two, but the set only comes with one, and there's only one shown in the picture. It's still a fun little build, though; didn't take long and looks good on my shelf.
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drat, the upcoming Hive Crawler from Galaxy Squad has to be one of the absolute coolest, creepiest and most inventive sets Lego has ever done. I can't wait for it to come out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtTYFRnodn4
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Joramun posted:drat, the upcoming Hive Crawler from Galaxy Squad has to be one of the absolute coolest, creepiest and most inventive sets Lego has ever done. I can't wait for it to come out. Is that a mini Mark 2 it comes with?
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Joramun posted:drat, the upcoming Hive Crawler from Galaxy Squad has to be one of the absolute coolest, creepiest and most inventive sets Lego has ever done. I can't wait for it to come out. Hot drat! That walking action looks great.
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I was going to say that the legs themselves look pretty basic, but after seeing it in action, I can forgive that. 
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Okay, I'd been passing over most of the Galaxy Squad stuff, but that, I will get.
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What's the best price I might get the Minecraft set for? What's the MSRP?
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Red posted:What's the best price I might get the Minecraft set for? It's available right now on shop.lego.com. $35, and you'll never find it cheaper because people are buying it up and speculating like hell, but Lego's not cooperating with them and they keep producing it.
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Does anybody work at Walmart or has worked at one before? My local Walmart finally has the Monster Hunter Ghost Train and a few other sets I have been eye balling in the clearance area, though for some reason the sets are marked down about 95cents from the MSRP. Does anybody have an idea when Walmart will mark these down farther in price normally or will this just be the price they sell them at?
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I'm getting the Palace Theater for my birthday (this Wednesday) and it will be my first modular building. I'm pretty excited and was wondering which other ones that are currently available I should pick up? I was thinking of picking up the Pet Shop one, as it's two buildings in one and will immediately add variety to my street scene, but would it be wiser to buy any of the others before they stop being produced?
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I really love how Lego is messing with the speculation market. There are going to be so many Minecraft sets and Fire Brigades in the secondary market.  Rythe posted:Does anybody work at Walmart or has worked at one before? My local Walmart finally has the Monster Hunter Ghost Train and a few other sets I have been eye balling in the clearance area, though for some reason the sets are marked down about 95cents from the MSRP. Does anybody have an idea when Walmart will mark these down farther in price normally or will this just be the price they sell them at? I think that falls to the individual store. Monster Hunters is long gone at both Wal-Marts in my area, but haunts the Target shelves (and probably will for another month or two until the summer waves hit).
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My area Walmarts and Meijers (and Target I think) have piles of ghost trains, but none have gone on sale yet, which is killing me.
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PriorMarcus posted:I'm getting the Palace Theater for my birthday (this Wednesday) and it will be my first modular building. I'm pretty excited and was wondering which other ones that are currently available I should pick up? Fire Brigade is currently the oldest, but I hear it is a meh set compared to the other current ones on the market. Due to the popularity of Green Grocer and the other first three sets (still going for 700+ used), they produced a shitton more FB than the first three, so you'll be able to find them for cheap for quite a while even if they stop being produced. So just get whichever one you like most. To be honest, Palace Cinema is the best one so far.
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Fire brigade is awesome. I would recommend that. You really can't go wrong with any of the ones that are on sale now. Cinema looks amazing from the outside, but the interior is rather unimpressive. Really depends if you get the sets just for display or not.
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Wild EEPROM posted:Going older, the $159 msrp 8480-1 space shuttle is around $360 Still sore that I never got the supercar though. The thought of building one of the newer technic sets with almost no brick pieces is weird as hell.
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The Rage posted:I found this today. Looks to be complete, and the controller still works. Has the software, instructions, test pad and USB IR receiver, think it's worth anything? I'm curious about this as well. I have the same set, never opened.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I'm curious about this as well. I have the same set, never opened. It looks like it's worth about $86-$172
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