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  • LordHarrierLordHarrier Member Posts: 21
    Not as great as my last finds but still good enough for me, another find from a teen/college student entering his darkages. Still dealing for some other stuff tomorrow.

    7662 MTT complete with box and instructions in good cond 100$
    7163 Gunship with instructions 30$
    4483 AT-AT with instructions 40$
    7146 Tie Fighter with instructions 10$

  • beegeedeebeegeedee Member Posts: 380
    edited August 2012
    About a year ago I also got #5766 Log Cabin for 15 EUR , #7065 Alien Mothership for 30 EUR, #3368 Space centre for 29 EUR and #7930 Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship for I think it was 19 EUR but may have been a little more. These all came from Tesco.

    I also picked up the #8071 Bucket truck off Amazon for 22GPB (worked out at about 28-29 EUR) that I spotted here on brickset and which I ordered over 2 weeks ago and it only just arrived 2 days ago.
  • weaselkingweaselking Member Posts: 61
    Maybe not the greatest find, but I just picked up 3368 from Wally World for $39. Had a weird sale sticker on it, but it scanned for that amount so I picked it up for my son.
  • The_Brick_BuilderThe_Brick_Builder Member Posts: 658
    edited September 2012
    Got a MISB #10210 Imperial Flagship for $305.46 shipped. :)
  • AFFOL_Shellz_BellzAFFOL_Shellz_Bellz Member Posts: 1,263
    Did anyone on the forums make it to the garage sale in Oceanside, CA that advertised "A Lot of Lego"? I saw the ad on craigslist, and wanted to check it out but it was only from 7am to noon and was closed by time we made it down from Anaheim.
  • jamiewjamiew Member Posts: 165
    A little insomnia and some early morning drive led to this $80 score of early Star Wars sets: 7203 7104x2 7113 7134 7127 7106 7209 4476 7103 7110 7124 7111 7204 7201 7128 7126 7121 7180

    About half are still sealed

  • pricey73pricey73 Member Posts: 352
    8019- Republic attack shuttle
    7748- Corporate alliance tank droid
    7778- Millennium falcon (midi-scale)
    7669- Anakins Jedi Starfighter
    7671- AT-AP walker
    8016- Hyena droid bomber
    7667- Imperial dropship
    6205- V-wing fighter
    7654- Droids battle pack
    8018- Armoured assault tank

    All for £25, at a car boot sale, the old dear obviously didn't realise the value of what she had (the grandkids had "grown" out of it!) so, I knocked her down from £30!
    Now being cleaned! Only a couple of figs missing, all instructions present.
  • gelkstergelkster Member Posts: 927
    My Bricklink orders arrived & the aforementioned Power Miners/Rock Raiders sets are made! Too bad I didnt get into these themes earlier, they're really neat! & I got the "Dad dont ever take this apart!" vote on the Rock Raiders HQ!

    Also, seems to be parts of 6614 Launch Evac 1 in the garage sale haul!
  • Penkid11Penkid11 Member Posts: 788
    After reading gelkster's comment, It really had me wish that Lego produced a UCS sized LMS Explorer from Rock Raiders. It still could be done today, but it would probably have to include a small backstory.
  • dehnehsudehnehsu Member Posts: 206
    Found a sealed nearly mint box, 1670 Trial Size LEGO system. A whopping 26 pieces! It was at a Goodwill for 89 cents.
  • mathewmathew Member Posts: 2,099
    Found Queen Anne's Revenge for $79 at Target. It was hidden behind a couple of Helm's Deep.
  • ewinnewinn Member Posts: 2
    Hi I have not posted before, but felt compelled to respond to pricey73's comment and stand up for the 'old dear' who was taken advantage of by a greedy carbooter, who then went online to brag about knocking her asking price down. Perhaps every time you look at these pieces of your collection you will be filled with pride.
  • theayeshaveittheayeshaveit Member Posts: 48
    To be fair this is actually the brag thread...
  • ewinnewinn Member Posts: 2
    Yes but not against an old lady, much better against the big rich stores! I can't see this is something to brag about.
  • roxioroxio Member Posts: 1,384
    ewinn said:

    Hi I have not posted before, but felt compelled to respond to pricey73's comment and stand up for the 'old dear' who was taken advantage of by a greedy carbooter, who then went online to brag about knocking her asking price down. Perhaps every time you look at these pieces of your collection you will be filled with pride.


    Eh ? They agreed a price and he paid that price. Don't 99% of people successfully barter at carboots ? I always do
  • CupIsHalfEmptyCupIsHalfEmpty Member Posts: 545
    Can somebody please define to a Canadian what a Car Boot sale is?

    Thank you for your help, I'm slightly perplexed.
  • samiam391samiam391 Member Posts: 4,492
    ewinn said:

    Hi I have not posted before, but felt compelled to respond to pricey73's comment and stand up for the 'old dear' who was taken advantage of by a greedy carbooter, who then went online to brag about knocking her asking price down. Perhaps every time you look at these pieces of your collection you will be filled with pride.

    I can't say these types of comments/characterjabs are really welcome here. I can understand where you are coming from, but that last sentence is a little un-called for.. It is the person's fault if they don't research and take the time to find out what their items are worth, not pricey73s. :-)
  • paul_mertonpaul_merton Member Posts: 2,967
    The most mind boggling thing I ever witnessed at a boot sale was when I overheard a bloke asking this lady how much she wanted for a five pound coin she had amongst the items on her table. She said £3, and I was like, "What?!" He paid her £3 and wandered off with a knowing grin on his face.
  • roxioroxio Member Posts: 1,384
    CupIsHalfEmpty said:

    Can somebody please define to a Canadian what a Car Boot sale is?
    Thank you for your help, I'm slightly perplexed.

    Public sale of second hand goods, normally in big places like fields/school playgrounds/airfields etc. Sellers take their goods in a car boot/trunk and sell from a table top.

    Sellers pay a fee (£5-£10) to organiser, browsers often free

  • greekmickgreekmick Member Posts: 710
    I used to love the old boot sales selling pirate dvds and louis vuitton bags. Now seems to be just dog biscuits and baby clothes
  • CupIsHalfEmptyCupIsHalfEmpty Member Posts: 545
    That makes sense. The free online dictionary gave the definition that items were sold from the boot/trunk. Funny, in Canada we call a boot sale a Flee Market. Which in all honesty is a worse, more confusing name.
  • CupIsHalfEmptyCupIsHalfEmpty Member Posts: 545
    Sorry to go slightly off topic...

    Do you have Garage or Yard sales in the UK? Where you sell a bunch of old stuff in front of your house for one weekend?
  • streekerstreeker Member Posts: 299
    edited September 2012
    You guys sure know how to roll out the welcome mat.

    Did pricey73 score a great deal or what? Absolutely! That's a fantastic buy. Was he condescending in his description of the seller? Absolutely. Calling a stranger an 'old dear', even if their age warrants it, is less than endearing.

    For what it's worth, welcome to the Brickset forum @ewinn!
  • LordHarrierLordHarrier Member Posts: 21
    CupIsHalfEmpty said:

    That makes sense. The free online dictionary gave the definition that items were sold from the boot/trunk. Funny, in Canada we call a boot sale a Flee Market. Which in all honesty is a worse, more confusing name.

    Flea markets here in USA as well.
  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    Just got all these last week. Also came with 30+ CMFs and 10 poly bags. 95% of sets were built on pick up, and all came in pristine condition with instructions...

    7942 Off-Road Fire Rescue
    7634 City Tractor
    8270 Rough Terrain Crane
    7630 Front End Loader
    8401 Minifig collection
    8631 Jet Pack Pursuit
    7639 City Camper
    7991 Garbage Truck
    5766 Log cabin
    7239 Fire Truck
    3221 Lego Truck
    7663 Star Wars Sith Infiltrator
    7731 Mail Van
    7635 City 4x4 with Horse Box
    6346 Shuttle Launch Crew
    7674 Star Wars V19 Torrent
    5891 Apple Tree House
    3222 Helicopter & Limosine
    4996 Beach House
    7738 Coastguard Helicopter
    4896 Roadster Car
    8403 City house
    7672 Star Wars Rogue Shadow
    7641 City Corner
    7237 Police station
    7622 Indiana Jones, Race to Stolen treasure
    6754 Family Home
    8169 Lamborghini Gallardo
    8635 Agents, Mobile Command Centre
    7897 Passenger Train
    7905 Building Crane
    9397 Technic Motorised Logging Truck
    10197 Fire Station
    10218 Pet Shop
    10211 Grand Emporium
    4954 Creator Townhouse
    7898 Cargo train Deluxe
    8145 Ferrari 599 GTB FIORANO
    8275 Technic Motorised Bulldozer
    10185 Greengrocer
    10190 Market Street
    10181 Eiffel Tower
    10182 Cafe Corner

    Needless to say, i feel like it's Christmas everyday when I come home from work.

  • GentlyBenevolentGentlyBenevolent Member Posts: 343
    adammullins said:

    Just got all these last week. Also came with 30+ CMFs and 10 poly bags. 95% of sets were built on pick up, and all came in pristine condition with instructions...

    7942 Off-Road Fire Rescue
    7634 City Tractor
    8270 Rough Terrain Crane
    7630 Front End Loader
    8401 Minifig collection
    8631 Jet Pack Pursuit
    7639 City Camper
    7991 Garbage Truck
    5766 Log cabin
    7239 Fire Truck
    3221 Lego Truck
    7663 Star Wars Sith Infiltrator
    7731 Mail Van
    7635 City 4x4 with Horse Box
    6346 Shuttle Launch Crew
    7674 Star Wars V19 Torrent
    5891 Apple Tree House
    3222 Helicopter & Limosine
    4996 Beach House
    7738 Coastguard Helicopter
    4896 Roadster Car
    8403 City house
    7672 Star Wars Rogue Shadow
    7641 City Corner
    7237 Police station
    7622 Indiana Jones, Race to Stolen treasure
    6754 Family Home
    8169 Lamborghini Gallardo
    8635 Agents, Mobile Command Centre
    7897 Passenger Train
    7905 Building Crane
    9397 Technic Motorised Logging Truck
    10197 Fire Station
    10218 Pet Shop
    10211 Grand Emporium
    4954 Creator Townhouse
    7898 Cargo train Deluxe
    8145 Ferrari 599 GTB FIORANO
    8275 Technic Motorised Bulldozer
    10185 Greengrocer
    10190 Market Street
    10181 Eiffel Tower
    10182 Cafe Corner

    Needless to say, i feel like it's Christmas everyday when I come home from work.

    How Much ?
  • PhoneboothPhonebooth Member Posts: 1,430
    @theclonetrooper - I didn't get an unbelievable $200-for-the-whole-lot deal, but I paid approx. 50% of the current used market value based on my estimates.... Not bad in my book.

    Most are going to be parted out and sold, but I'm currently building the Eiffel tower. Unbelievable build.

  • bsiu922bsiu922 Member Posts: 439
    edited September 2012
    adammullins said:

    Just got all these last week. Also came with 30+ CMFs and 10 poly bags. 95% of sets were built on pick up, and all came in pristine condition with instructions...

    7942 Off-Road Fire Rescue
    7634 City Tractor
    8270 Rough Terrain Crane
    7630 Front End Loader
    8401 Minifig collection
    8631 Jet Pack Pursuit
    7639 City Camper
    7991 Garbage Truck
    5766 Log cabin
    7239 Fire Truck
    3221 Lego Truck
    7663 Star Wars Sith Infiltrator
    7731 Mail Van
    7635 City 4x4 with Horse Box
    6346 Shuttle Launch Crew
    7674 Star Wars V19 Torrent
    5891 Apple Tree House
    3222 Helicopter & Limosine
    4996 Beach House
    7738 Coastguard Helicopter
    4896 Roadster Car
    8403 City house
    7672 Star Wars Rogue Shadow
    7641 City Corner
    7237 Police station
    7622 Indiana Jones, Race to Stolen treasure
    6754 Family Home
    8169 Lamborghini Gallardo
    8635 Agents, Mobile Command Centre
    7897 Passenger Train
    7905 Building Crane
    9397 Technic Motorised Logging Truck
    10197 Fire Station
    10218 Pet Shop
    10211 Grand Emporium
    4954 Creator Townhouse
    7898 Cargo train Deluxe
    8145 Ferrari 599 GTB FIORANO
    8275 Technic Motorised Bulldozer
    10185 Greengrocer
    10190 Market Street
    10181 Eiffel Tower
    10182 Cafe Corner

    Needless to say, i feel like it's Christmas everyday when I come home from work.

    That is quite a list. Of course the most interesting one for me is the cafe corner!
  • VenunderVenunder Member Posts: 2,659
    3061-1: City Park Cafe for £7.50. New MISB from Tesco. :)
  • beegeedeebeegeedee Member Posts: 380
    Went to tesco for food shipping an walked out with about 300 euro of Lego new misb for about 70 quid.
    2x city forest dog sets for 6.50 each
    Heavy lift helicopter for 16
    2 Dino sets for 11 and 6.50
    Ninjago training set for 4.75
    Anakons Jedi interceptor for 15
    Genosian cannon thing for 6.50
    And a police generic brick set for 2.25

    They had the city shuttle for 9 euro too

    Cleaning out for lord of the rings and mining sets by the looks of things
  • 111ins111ins Member Posts: 265
    Got a box in the mail today (box not destroyed, even with their poor packing), 3x 8043 for $160CDN each, retails for $285 with tax here... 44% off! Have to love amazon.uk. Now if only amazon.com would ship big sets to Canada for $15 shipping, for 3 sets!
  • HobHob Member Posts: 223
    Got the following from a car boot yesterday for a pound

    4491 MTT
    7250 Scout walker
    6205 V wing (Not sure if complete)
    4484 Tie x wing
    4485 pod race
    4487 Slave 1 Jedi
    7016 Viling boat

    No minfigs apart from 2 vikings.

    Plus a bag of bionicles for £1.50.

    Today got 7666 not complete for 12quid with instructions
    Plus a small blue box of mostly lego for 1.50

    also made a new contact who may want to sell other Lego sets

    Good couple of days.
  • paul_mertonpaul_merton Member Posts: 2,967
    The past couple of days trawling around my local Tesco store has resulted in some good finds, although the shelf edge labels all showed the original prices so it was a bit hard to find the bargains.

    Those that were reduced seemed to be rounded down to the nearest pound, then divided by 4. E.g. the #6862-2 Superman Vs Power Armor Lex was reduced from £19.99 to £4.75 and #3865 City Alarm was reduced from £14.99 to £3.50. I found a few other reduced sets each time I went back.

    Net result was £524 of Lego in pristine boxes for only £124 :)
  • graphitegraphite Member Posts: 3,275
    Got a #7675 AT-TE for $60 today from someone at work. Supposedly complete except for the STAP with droid.
  • bsiu922bsiu922 Member Posts: 439
    got a 7903 Rescue Helicopter for $10 from a garage sales, miss about 7 parts. but the best part is somehow, a spiderman Mini figure is in that bag

    also got a 6211 for 25, but miss all mini figures and miss about 40 pieces. still trying to get the inventory of the parts. So I can rebuild and then hi jack by Loki and Joker!
  • pvancil27pvancil27 Member Posts: 588
    Was a trade, but got a near complete #7662 missing the parts for the upper part of the droid rack and three pieces off the roof in exchange for an Imperial V-Wing, and the two Current Clone battlepacks.
  • insanityrocksinsanityrocks Member Posts: 77
    managed to get my hands on some series 8 today being as i had waited ages to find them brought 11 and i got
    the evil robot
    conquistador
    cowgirl
    football champ
    deep sea diver
    the bat
    the DJ
    shakespear guy
    and alien queen
    so basically most of the ones i was after from this series (not a huge mini fig collector i usually only go after the ones that i want)

    and only 2 dupes

    and the other day picked 2 random team GBs because i wanted a blue boxer for my red one to beat on and of the 2 1 of them was the boxer and then went on to swap my tennis player for a season whatever punk rocker who I've been after forever

    well chuffed!!

    pumperx
  • mobilelinkagemobilelinkage Member Posts: 49
    odueck said:

    Was able to order 5770 Lighthouse Island for £21.62 from amazon.co.uk shipped to Canada. That's $34 CDN instead of the normal $50 + tax.

    No shipping charge? Custom charge? Taxes?

  • cynthilinacynthilina Member Posts: 188
    OK so I want to be sure I understand that a boot sale is just like a swap meet then?
  • ChoochChooch Member Posts: 148
    cynthilina said:

    OK so I want to be sure I understand that a boot sale is just like a swap meet then?

    Correct - flea market; trunk sale, etc...

  • ErnstErnst Member Posts: 133
    A nice deal again on Dutch Marktplaats :

    Tokyo Pit Stop : http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=8206-1
    Mater's Spy Zone : http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=8424-1
    Big Bentley Bust Out : http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=8639-1
    Woody's Roundup! : http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=7594-1
    Magma Mech : http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=8189-1
    Tank Truck : http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=3180-1
    Garmadon's Dark Fortress : http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=2505-1

    All this sent home for € 65.00 which I think is not bad. Most is for my kid, I like the Ninjago Fortress.
  • ErnstErnst Member Posts: 133
    TyoSolo said:

    Managed to pick up #6242 - Pirate Soldiers' Fort MISB for £50 delivered. Quite happy with that. The question now is, do I open it?

    Is Lego about building or collecting boxes ? Only reason to keep it closed is if you are planning on reselling it for a profit which is a legitimate reason of course.

  • 12651265 Member Posts: 1,156
    Ernst said:


    Is Lego about building or collecting boxes ?

    One's own definition might differ from others, but it has one common denominator......Lego.
    Ernst said:


    Only reason to keep it closed is if you are planning on reselling it for a profit which is a legitimate reason of course.

    I keep mine sealed (closed)....not for resell, but for "I can." I've always had some kind of hobby to entertain myself, but collecting Lego sets has outlasted them all. The day will come when the simple things in life will outweigh my joy of collecting personal things/items. Until that day comes, I'll be collecting sealed Lego sets.

  • pvancil27pvancil27 Member Posts: 588
    1265 said:

    Ernst said:


    Is Lego about building or collecting boxes ?

    One's own definition might differ from others, but it has one common denominator......Lego.
    Ernst said:


    Only reason to keep it closed is if you are planning on reselling it for a profit which is a legitimate reason of course.

    I keep mine sealed (closed)....not for resell, but for "I can." I've always had some kind of hobby to entertain myself, but collecting Lego sets has outlasted them all. The day will come when the simple things in life will outweigh my joy of collecting personal things/items. Until that day comes, I'll be collecting sealed Lego sets.

    Valid point, but if you collect sealed boxes, then is there really a dilemma as to if you open it or not?
  • 12651265 Member Posts: 1,156
    pvancil27 said:


    Valid point, but if you collect sealed boxes, then is there really a dilemma as to if you open it or not?

    No dilemma what so ever. The last Lego item I opened and built was the Hazmat Guy. Yesterday my wife bought me the Haunted House for my birthday. I really love the Monster set line. I've been contemplating buying three sets to create a larger house....of course, with other items to complement the design.

    (Sorry for hijacking thread....back to regular discussion)

  • sandtherapysandtherapy Member Posts: 108
    I've been stalking the clearance isle at my local Walmart for the last couple of weeks since the prices get reduced every few days. Tonight I picked up these sets for a total of $55 plus tax.
  • LegobrandonCPLegobrandonCP Member Posts: 1,917
    ASFEGHDSTHTJJ!!!! $55??????
  • graphitegraphite Member Posts: 3,275
    wow.. that is a nice haul. The police set for $6 is great. Wish my WMs would mark down that much.
  • LegobrandonCPLegobrandonCP Member Posts: 1,917
    I wish the Walmart's near the border even have LEGO to stock the shelves. :/
  • gifinimgifinim Member Posts: 174
    Picked up a 6195 Neptune Discovery Lab for £13 on eBay, everything there and the box is in really good condition. It's worth it for the baseplates alone!
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