Originally Posted by mweav067 I"m still hoping beyond hope to find the Falcon on clearance at some point, if at all. Still working on building the Black Pearl. It's actually bigger than I thought it would be. Of the Star Wars sets that are currently out and/or releasing later this year, the A-Wing was the only super interesting one for me. I'll probably pick up the planets as well though.

My Wal-Mart has them clearanced for $139.97 and Im keeping an eye on them with the help of a friend who works in electronics. IF I can score them cheap I can try to give you a CAG price on one.

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FYI, if something gets a red tag at Wal-Mart it doesn't necessarily mean it's on clearance, it also means they are not going to get any new stock in.

I think Lego realized that the CMS is dying down a little bit so why not get gold mini figures to find.

Friends are getting a boy friend.

We will see the sets really nicely February 10-14th at the NYC Toy Fair.

Originally Posted by Unaki My Wal-Mart has them clearanced for $139.97 and Im keeping an eye on them with the help of a friend who works in electronics. IF I can score them cheap I can try to give you a CAG price on one.

That would be great, although I would definitely want to know the price beforehand. I'm hitting the slightly further away Walmart tomorrow to see if they still have it, and if they do and still have their Rollback $99.95 tag out I may argue one down to that price (last time I had them check the price on one it rang up as $140).

Building Lego sets while watching TV episodes does not work very well. I make slow progress on both. Although I'm pretty impressed with the Black Pearl so far, it's a larger set than I expected.

Not sure when I'll crack open Diagon Alley, maybe this weekend as a last hurrah before the semester starts.

Originally Posted by bigdaddy Friends are getting a boy friend.

I've been saying the only sexist thing about Friends is that the lone male figure is a disheveled slob.

Originally Posted by mweav067 Not sure when I'll crack open Diagon Alley, maybe this weekend as a last hurrah before the semester starts.

You haven't started yet? Weird.

Originally Posted by skiizim FYI, if something gets a red tag at Wal-Mart it doesn't necessarily mean it's on clearance, it also means they are not going to get any new stock in.

I never see red tags on anything at my Wal-Marts. Its all just shoveled into the mess that is the clearance isle.

The $54 Moria and $40 Weathertop sets I found at WM last time are now in the clearance isle... Guess I'll check early next week to see if they've dropped any further. Found three more series 8 figures hidden in the craziest spots: Cowgirl, Diver, and Evil Robot (what are the odds that I get two more of the same two I found last time I was there...).

Also noticed the Fire Plane was reduced to $40, Shelob Attack "reduced" to $19.97. Still a lone Millennium Falcon for $139.xx... hope that goes on clearance, it's been there forever.

Hmmm, curious about the golden figures in Series 10. Will it be one special gold figure or will there be gold variants of all the figures in Series 10 I wonder. Either way, I'm excited about the chase aspect that it adds ... might have to grab a box this time ... now to find a reasonably priced source (*cough*jaywhereareyou*cough*).

In other news, as hard as it was, took back my unopened Jabba's Palace to put towards the cinema modular on March 1st. Feeling bittersweet but I find that good builds give me more satisfaction than cool minifigures as I get older.

Went to target and must if tried a ton of items and none were even 10% on sale. I doubt this is a national thing, it's probably super ymmv.

At least the summer Chima sets sound a lot better...

70008, Gorzan's Jungle Striker, £50, is a gorilla-like mecha which looks pretty cool. It comes with 4 minifigs: Rizzo, Gorzan, Gardo, G'Loona, who's a female.

And a (horrible!!!!) Lego Chima castle...
http://idlehands1.blogspot.co.uk/201...-new-toys.html

And everyone keeps reporting that Coast Guard and Cargo have big single piece boats and cockpits, like that is new. I guess no one at Brickset bothered to use the site and look up the fact that's what the last theme was like too.

All the Target clearance in Austin gets smaller and smaller each year, to the point where it almost seems nonexistent.

Are some of you guys seeing that in other parts of the country?

I haven't seen LEGO clearance in Targets in 5+ years now. They have one or two sets 20% off. I was happy when I got the big Space Police ship for 50% off, and four or five sat around for months and were gone in less than a week when I got one for $50.

Originally Posted by smergb All the Target clearance in Austin gets smaller and smaller each year, to the point where it almost seems nonexistent. Are some of you guys seeing that in other parts of the country?

Just speaking for the ones I went to, it seemed like the clearance was about the same size -- it was just items in which I had no interest. Several Targets had 2+ aisles of clearance merchandise. Unfortunately, those 2+ aisles included maybe 2-3 sets of Legos, most of which were unremarkable.

Lego just did not make a big appearance in Target clearance this year. Unlike previous years, going to most Targets showed a toy department that had very few Legos left -- usually only a handful of sets. Most of the sets I did get on clearance were not tagged -- they were ones that I scanned just hopin'.

So, people really bought them this year, at least in my areas. Win for Lego. Lose for finding Lego on decent clearance.

Hmm, after seeing series 10, I can't see myself buying a box ... no must haves ... Except maybe the Lego seagull ;-)

Blind Melon's "No Rain" gets a LEGO minifigure :/

Originally Posted by etcrane Hmm, after seeing series 10, I can't see myself buying a box ... no must haves ... Except maybe the Lego seagull ;-)

The toy soldier looks pretty cool. What's up with the guy that has no legs?

He looks like a French soldier. Perhaps he was guillotined?

I hope the gold MF is done in gold chrome like that special C-3PO a few years ago: http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=4521221-1

The baseball player doesn't get a hat? And the punk rock grandpa is one of the weirdest figures they have done yet.

That's an old picture someone made using official CGI replacement part list. So not all the pieces were listed, the baseball cap is old so it wasn't included in the pieces.

And there is 16.5 minifigures. The half one will probably be in series 11.