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Re: The Future of Brickset Forums
We are still looking at Discord and it's likely that it'll be the platform we choose.
However I have been preoccupied over the summer (daughter's wedding), and with Skaerbaek next week and a family trip to Canada in October (another wedding) I'm not likely to get a chance to do much anytime soon.
To be honest, long term I think I'd like to have a hands-off approach to the forum and let others run it so if that's something that would interest you let me know.
However I have been preoccupied over the summer (daughter's wedding), and with Skaerbaek next week and a family trip to Canada in October (another wedding) I'm not likely to get a chance to do much anytime soon.
To be honest, long term I think I'd like to have a hands-off approach to the forum and let others run it so if that's something that would interest you let me know.
Huw
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Re: What's your LEGO 'status' today?
I've shared this before... but turns out that I've got a prototype build for the just-announced Piranha Plant (I understand that Nintendo feedback was that it was 'too spiky' with all the studs on)
mr_benn
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Re: Predictions on Discontinuing Sets and their Secondary Market Value
I have found the prices have held up very well for smaller LOTR/Hobbit sets like Witch King and Wizard Battle. I had been selling each for £50 up to about a year ago. Once it was obvious Rivendell was coming, I upped them to £70 and they have still sold. Not bad for sets that amazon clearanced at £6 and £5 respectively.
Medium sets are also holding up well. Even the old small Rivendell set - The Council of Elrond - hasn't really been impacted much. I sold my last one of those a few months back for £120. If that hasn't been impacted by a similar subject bigger set, I doubt other sets will.
I haven't tried to sell the bigger ones recently (Helm's Deep, Mines of Moria, Black Gate, etc or the Hobbit sets such as the Bag End, Lonely Mountain or The Battle of Five Armies), although those prices still seem pretty high.
I parted out a lot of my investment sets and of course the minifigures have been doing incredibly well and are the main driving force in the set prices. Figures like the old Aragorn in his brown outfit has kept a reasonable price despite the new version being similar and even the Dimensions version of Gimli has been selling for over a tenner.
I wish I had bought more copies of the Lonely Mountain when they were £50. Smaug has gone crazy now. I thought I did well at the time to buy the set for £50 and sell just Smaug within a week for £50. All those free bricks and minifigures! But these days he is probably £250. Luckily I kept some copies back.
LOTR and Hobbit figures were so cheap for ages where people had bought the sets for the bricks and not wanted the figures, especially duplicates of core characters. Even as late as 2016 I was buying up new figures at under £2 each as people didn't want them. How times have changed.
CCC
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Re: What are you building right now?
I finished adding Ninjago City Markets to my Ninjago City display but because of how the other sets are set up and to include the Temple of Airjitsu I had to orient the Markets set in reverse to how it was meant to join the others. I used the 16x32 memorial to Zane on one side of the Markets to join onto Ninjago City and I made a 16x32 baseplate with a little bridge to join Markets to Gardens.
Cymbeline
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Re: Predictions on Discontinuing Sets and their Secondary Market Value
Idea: We dust this old heartwarming thread one last time November first or thereabouts and post memes and gifs and give the forum a proper sendoff. Perhaps beat a dead horse or two?
Bumblepants
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Re: The "brag" thread: Post your recent great finds!
This lot cost me $100 with shipping.
I bought it for the Loop Coaster, which is obviously missing some parts and all the minifigures, but after a quick sort, it seems that the Home Alone house is nearly complete with all the figs. We’ll see how it all shakes out once I can inventory them.
I bought it for the Loop Coaster, which is obviously missing some parts and all the minifigures, but after a quick sort, it seems that the Home Alone house is nearly complete with all the figs. We’ll see how it all shakes out once I can inventory them.
WesterBricks
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Re: What's your LEGO 'status' today?
This is my 4,000th post on the forum... Better make it a good one.
Nope, I got nothing. Just enjoyed those numbers.
andhe
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Re: Unpopular LEGO Opinions
Dreamzzz has been going for what, two months. Give it a few more months and let's see whether kids choose it for Christmas. One thing is for sure, it will outlast the Brickset forum!
CCC
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