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I assume the smiley at the end of the refenced post means the comment was made tongue-in-cheek.
The Death Star retirement watch reminds me of the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer tries to see how far he can drive a car while the gas meter is on "Empty."
I had one in my store since then at what I thought was an elevated price and it just sold this morning, so I checked BL and see I was the cheapest in the US. Next is at $45, which is quite shocking to me considering the feedback last year.
I did not know anything about this character, or ever played the game it is from, but I like the fig, even though they could have made its printing a little brighter. $45 though is a lot of money. I assume of course that this is for a minifig in its sealed polybag. Then it fares a lot better then the Han Solo Hoth minifig polybag.
But why would someone from the USA want to buy that minifig for that much, when they can buy it for just a little under €25 from someone in South Korea or Italy on Bricklink? I don't know anything about import taxes for Americans, but if that is the only thing you buy you might not have to pay any or much, and with shipping included might still be able to get it cheaper then you would from the cheapest USA seller, or not?
Still though, I find his price climb to be unusual compared to most others. The Shadow ARF took much longer, Shirtless Maul is not moving much, TC-14 has settled a bit higher, Chrome Stormtroopers are finally accelerating after many years, Chrome Vader is stalling at under $100, but White Boba was exploding from about a year ago onwards.
That's why Yularen is going to be interesting. Similar strict release time window of 4 days and I assume low stock similar to Revan. An obscure character, but has the benefit of being OT with CW history, although not as badass. It's not bottoming out as low as I expected either, sticking at about $20 shipped right now. If there are aggressive resellers hoarding these in bulk from the quick flippers, the bottom will start rising very quickly in my opinion.
"There are no import duties or taxes on toy imports at the consumer level in the USA."
You lucky bastards! ..... Nice.
ps.
I remember contacting someone once on Bricklink, but it might have been E-bay either, from Germany or was it Italy?! Anyway, before buying something, I asked how much he would really charge me if I placed the order with him. After e-mailing back and forth shipping was only a fraction of what he advertised.
I just checked and the Yularen sets are currently being bid higher or the asking price is higher on eBay and BL than I paid for an extra Revan set I bought last year, which does surprise me.
While I agree that Revan was more personally interesting, the scuttlebutt last year was less "thrilled" and more mixed based on the discussion thread (see link below). The Yularen discussion wasn't that thrilled either, yet here we are.
My thought is that people have realized that some polybag freebees do quite well and they want to cash in. Revan, Hulk, TC-14, Shadow ARF Trooper, etc. are great examples.
As a side note, there are enough promotional sets being handed out these days to merit a special grouping based on sets, minifigures, themes, sub-themes, years, and my collection. Yes, I realize searches can be done on promotional sets; however, this list is either vastly incomplete (I didn't see a single SW promotional set in the list) or I'm searching incorrectly. JMO.
http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/13455/star-wars-polybag-for-may-the-4th-2014-darth-revan/p1
http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/06/investing/yahoo-alibaba-marissa-mayer-jack-ma/index.html?sr=fbemoney050915mayer0630story
Your thoughts @doriansdad ?
Fortuitously, my only comment in the entire thread was "pro-Revan" so I just gave myself a high-five.
I think Yularen is going up because I do not see many people wanting to buy, what are many, overpriced SW sets through LEGO, and you had to buy only $75 USD SW in order to get him.
With any purchase of 75 or over netting you a Winter soldier I can see many LEGO sets I would rather buy that get me him without having to over pay for Marvel sets.
I have heard that the next Millennium Falcon will be from The Force Awakens and have the new radar dish. I have also heard that it will come with lights and possibly sound. There was no mention on what minifigures will come with the MF, but I imagine that it will at least contain Han and Chewbacca as well as the two characters pictured on the Vanity Fair cover. Has anyone else heard anything about the new Millennium Falcon?
The "street date" for Hasbro's toys for The Force Awakens is September 4th. I wonder when we will see the first wave of Lego sets?