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illennium said:
The reason I bring up this set is that it's apparently on clearance at Walmart, with some people on Reddit finding it as low as $30. I paid $40 for mine on Prime Day.
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I didn't see it for $40 but I was at a Walmart 2-3 days late from $58 Arctic base, $70 Sandcrawler and a bunch of others. I got Solo speeder bikes because those are always cool and a Unikitty Lab because I love Unikitty. My favorite though by the time I left everything was gone besides a $50 TLM2 Palace. I was temped to buy it but even for $50 it's an 'ehh' set to me.

 
No Walmarts in NYC so my only clearance option is Target. Went after work today and picked up a few TLM2 sets at 55% off. What is nice about NYC Targets is that the workers care so little that they don't even bother marking sets that are on sale / clearance. Win for them (less work) and win for me (more stealth clearance sets on the shelves).

Speaking of Target, maybe some people will find this useful. You can buy Target gift cards at an 11% discount on CardCookie. You buy the cards, they email you the codes within a couple minutes, you add your codes to your Wallet in the Target app, and then you scan your Wallet at checkout to pay. Easy way to save 11% on all of your Target purchases on top of whatever sales there are. I always have these codes loaded in the app and have been using them to pay at Target for months.

 
illennium said:
I've posted this before but if anyone is selling retired sets for below eBay prices, let me know. Had a couple of very pleasant and smooth transactions with members here a few months ago and am always game for more.
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I recently cleaned up my storage and have the below unopened sets I’m looking to offload. Would rather avoid eBay if possible so if you or anyone else are interested shoot me a message

41322 Snow Resort Ice Rink
41122 Adventure Camp Tree House
41594 Captain Armando Salazar
41593 Captain Jack Sparrow
41596 Beast
10745 Florida 500 Final Race
21123 The Iron Golem
10732 Guido and Luigi's Pit Stop
60177 Airshow Jet
60019 Stunt Plane
31048 Lakeside Lodge
31053 Treehouse Adventures
31050 Corner Deli
70814 Emmet's Construct-o-Mech
75149 Resistance X-wing Fighter
75093 Death Star Final Duel
75172 Y-wing Starfighter
 
I'm not sure why, but Prime Now in my zip code had the LEGO Rexplorer for $42.01 just now (MSRP $120). I ordered the last one. I wonder if it will get cancelled.

 
WingsDJY said:
Surprised to see Gunther get a minifig
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I never even knew the store manager had a name. I hate the show. I hated it then and I still hate it today.

But Flintstones couldn't do Bam Bam or what's her name.

Nice thing is for the cheap price I thought it all be stickers, the menu and the window sign are both prints. That's awesome for MOCs.

 
biggdaddy said:
I never even knew the store manager had a name. I hate the show. I hated it then and I still hate it today.
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It's a bad show. The one part that always made me laugh was seeing their apartments. I was living in Manhattan at the time and it was always hilarious that they were supposedly broke but had these 2,000+ square foot loft apartments in the city. Those would have cost $5K per month in the 90s and probably $10K-15K per month now.

I will still get 1-2 of these sets for the pieces though.

 
illennium said:
It's a bad show. The one part that always made me laugh was seeing their apartments. I was living in Manhattan at the time and it was always hilarious that they were supposedly broke but had these 2,000+ square foot loft apartments in the city. Those would have cost $5K per month in the 90s and probably $10K-15K per month now.

I will still get 1-2 of these sets for the pieces though.
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Like Big Bang Theory. The two grad students need to share an apartment, but Penny could afford a one bedroom at Cheesecake Factory. Having applied there she would never have gotten the job, you need to take an SAT test to work there, I'm not kidding.

But the set is really nice. Love all the dark green and how it looks nice from outside and the new prints. Will work great modding it into MOCs.

 
biggdaddy said:
LEGO has announced the LEGO Ideas Friends TV Series Set. 1,000+ pieces and several minifigures for $60. Thus further proof that the price of sets recently are inflated like hell.https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-ideas-central-perk-21319-officially-announced/?fbclid=IwAR27C7PXCVxQFrwBZphQFqv5KkwCgP0RUVQ0iJcKubR2ZKJcmvNJdPifzug
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At the price point I’ll probably get this for the wife for Christmas.

Semi related note, what’s the typical shelf life of these idea sets? I’m interested in the Stranger Things set but really don’t want to budget for it for a few months.
 
Madzane said:
At the price point I’ll probably get this for the wife for Christmas.

Semi related note, what’s the typical shelf life of these idea sets? I’m interested in the Stranger Things set but really don’t want to budget for it for a few months.
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Stranger Things isn't an Ideas set, but the bigger sets stay around 2 years and usually retired the third. Sometimes that jumps around but Stranger Things will still have like 20 more months at least. It will live through Christmas for sure.

Cuusoo / Ideas sets have had a history of retiring within 6 hours, like the Mars Rover, two days like the NASA female set. However they seemed to have fixed that so the Friends Idea set I think will be around throw 2021. WB will probably want it on the shelf still for the streaming of the show on their new streaming service stupidly called HBO MAX. That makes no sense to me at all.

 
illennium said:
It's a bad show. The one part that always made me laugh was seeing their apartments. I was living in Manhattan at the time and it was always hilarious that they were supposedly broke but had these 2,000+ square foot loft apartments in the city. Those would have cost $5K per month in the 90s and probably $10K-15K per month now.

I will still get 1-2 of these sets for the pieces though.
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Couldn't agree more...funny part is as I was writing this reply, I realized I think I know all of their characters' names despite never watching an episode. Indicative of how pervasive that show was. That said, they could afford the apartments because what the show didn't tell you was (A) Monica and Rachel were escorts prostituting themselves out for big money Wall Street types, (B) Chandler and Joey were rentboys doing same, (C) Phoebe was a highly successful drug dealer with much the same clientele as above, and (D) Ross was secretly the kingpin taking a cut of it all. Oh and of course they were all spoiled trust fund babies of boomers.

biggdaddy said:
Like Big Bang Theory. The two grad students need to share an apartment, but Penny could afford a one bedroom at Cheesecake Factory. Having applied there she would never have gotten the job, you need to take an SAT test to work there, I'm not kidding.

But the set is really nice. Love all the dark green and how it looks nice from outside and the new prints. Will work great modding it into MOCs.
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Again, Penny making bank by hooking on the side.

 
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Loved Friends when it was on and still love it now.  Watched re-runs almost nightly up until I finally cut the cable cord a month ago.  It's aged remarkably well.  So I'm totally in on launch day.  The price is phenomenal.

Seems like most here didn't watch enough because they explained the arpartments in the show after getting flack about it.  Monica and Rachel were subletting from Monica's grandmother.  Chandler always made bank so he could afford his apartment on his own (with Joey helping out when he could).   Ross & Phoebe always had modest apartments.  

So now I just need some aspiring Ideas designer to design a Cheers set and a Seinfeld set of Jerry's apartment.

 
Corvin said:
Seems like most here didn't watch enough because they explained the arpartments in the show after getting flack about it. Monica and Rachel were subletting from Monica's grandmother. Chandler always made bank so he could afford his apartment on his own (with Joey helping out when he could). Ross & Phoebe always had modest apartments.
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But this is why we are pointing out the NYC context. Those are modest apartments in many places but not in Manhattan. In Manhattan you just don't get large, square open rooms like that. Most Manhattan apartments are tenement-style with narrow hallways leading to multiple small, rectangular rooms. Squares just aren't an efficient use of space in these compact buildings.

These days most of the NYC apartments I visit belong to people who are quite wealthy, and even then I rarely see big open layouts like this. My girlfriend's boss is a billionaire with a 20+ room apartment but each room is a lot smaller than the ones I remember from Friends. You can get those kinds of layouts in Brooklyn because the buildings are differently proportioned. But even then what you need to do is buy a floor of a building or an entire brownstone and knock down some interior walls, which of course still costs a lot of money to do.

Funny enough, the one place I've been to recently that did look like it came from the set of Friends was David Schwimmer's townhouse in the east village. Large, airy square rooms with high ceilings. Clearly a gut renovation of an older building and I have no idea how much he spent on it.

 
--Not to self... When staying in New York, stay with illennium, I never really watched friends only passing through channels.

 
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LOL sorry guys, I just re-read my post and it comes off as completely obnoxious. I forgot to mention that the reason I see all these places is that I work in the fine art industry and part of my job requires seeing (rich) people's art collections. I'm definitely not hobnobbing with these people and it's much less glamorous than it sounds. I'll still try to share entertaining stories when possible though.

 
Just reemeber what every old, straight white stranger tol me....
"You don't marry for love, love comes and goes, you marry for the money. Money is forever.

 
illennium said:
But this is why we are pointing out the NYC context. Those are modest apartments in many places but not in Manhattan. In Manhattan you just don't get large, square open rooms like that. Most Manhattan apartments are tenement-style with narrow hallways leading to multiple small, rectangular rooms. Squares just aren't an efficient use of space in these compact buildings.
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Sure in the mid-90's, but what were apartments in NYC like in the 1940s? I honestly don't know. We're talking about renting the same pad from 2 generations prior. Surely they weren't always tiny shoeboxes. Hell maybe Grandma and Grandpa Geller were loaded. Also the fact that the apartment is at least twice the size of Chandler & Joey's implies some modifications were made at some point in time.

In the end, it's a fictional show and the writers can explain it away however they chose. They aren't bound by the real world. They simply needed a large set to accomodate 6 cast members.

 
illennium said:
LOL sorry guys, I just re-read my post and it comes off as completely obnoxious. I forgot to mention that the reason I see all these places is that I work in the fine art industry and part of my job requires seeing (rich) people's art collections. I'm definitely not hobnobbing with these people and it's much less glamorous than it sounds. I'll still try to share entertaining stories when possible though.
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You need to find Bigdaddy a sugardaddy!!!! Don't worry, you didn't come off any way, but I'm still going to crash on the couch though!!!

 
Condor80 said:
Did you create a new account?
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Yes. I said so a few weeks back as I completely forgot my password and it was being lame.

How is bricklink working recently? To me it's been off, but there is a Walmart kind of near me with $3.50 HP carriage and SW A-Wing with a $15 eye ship from TLM2. Wondering if it's worth it to go based on Bricklink.

 
El Rey said:
If it’s green and says in stock, it’s worth a check but if it’s yellow and says limited stock I wouldn’t bother
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Thanks! They are all limited stock and this Walmart has VERY few sets but is the only one I ever see the minifigures in. But we still have TLM2 and not Disney2 yet.

 
biggdaddy said:
Yes. I said so a few weeks back as I completely forgot my password and it was being lame.

How is bricklink working recently? To me it's been off, but there is a Walmart kind of near me with $3.50 HP carriage and SW A-Wing with a $15 eye ship from TLM2. Wondering if it's worth it to go based on Bricklink.
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I went to a few Walmarts upstate over the weekend. Around here, Brickseek is completely unreliable. Many sets that showed 4+ available on Brickseek were nowhere to be found. At the same time, there were clearance sets in stock that showed out of stock on Brickseek.

 
El Rey said:
While the train isn’t that original in terms of looks it has the new power up features, sound effects, which I believe is new
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Some people have been complaining about the price, but it has four to five times the pieces of the City Passenger Train and is just missing the remote.

Does the sound come from a new piece or from a modern phone you need to use as the remote?

 
biggdaddy said:
Yes. I said so a few weeks back as I completely forgot my password and it was being lame.

How is bricklink working recently? To me it's been off, but there is a Walmart kind of near me with $3.50 HP carriage and SW A-Wing with a $15 eye ship from TLM2. Wondering if it's worth it to go based on Bricklink.
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Most of the Walmarts around here have reset the Lego aisle so the leftovers clearance sets I know they have are floating around the back somewhere.

I did get the new Bluetooth Batmobile for $25 though!

 
The train is kinda ugly. I know they're going with the park feel, but eh. Are they releasing more shops so it actually looks right?

Edit: I mean the Main Street shops that lead to the castle.

 
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Walmart I went to was prepping for the return of the 50,000 college students so the LEGO isle was super weird set up. No cheap LEGO besides some random 30% off Friends set at it and target. I did get 4 containers of 50% less sodium beef stock for 50 cents each and found liquid pectin. Plus the cute 'guy' I keep running into on the bus got a job at the market I like so fuck you guys and your cheap LEGO deals.  :booty:

(Unless you want to share your cheap LEGO deals with me, then I'll love you for a week.)

Also in a surprise LEGO S@H now is selling a full box of Disney Series 2 CMF.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/disney-series-2-complete-box-66625

 
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Nothing wrong with some beefy stock.

Weird that they're selling a whole box. If it hasn't been mentioned already, best buy has the Harry Potter and the Disney figures on sale for 3 bucks instead of 4. Also my target stores in Ohio just started moving a more stuff to 50 percent off. There was quite a bit of lego city stuff for half price.
 
Irukandji said:
Nothing wrong with some beefy stock.

Weird that they're selling a whole box. If it hasn't been mentioned already, best buy has the Harry Potter and the Disney figures on sale for 3 bucks instead of 4. Also my target stores in Ohio just started moving a more stuff to 50 percent off. There was quite a bit of lego city stuff for half price.
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Walmart again is having the Disney figures for $3 online, limit of 12 which gets you free shipping. So do a few orders and return the extras.

Nothing wrong with beefy at all. Plus I have a bunch of onions from the farm I used to work at so french onion soup. Yay for cheap food. But I've never bought luid pectin before, that shit is expensive. Next time I'm just going to make my own.

 
I bought 25 Disney Series 2 minifigures from Walmart.com this weekend when they were $3 and no tax.

14 out of the 18 isn't bad, I just have never seen the series in a non-LEGO store. So hopefully I can get them and return these extras.

I need Hercules, Blue Duck, Frozen Queen, Edna. Not sure if anyone still trades. I have extra (x3!) Sally, Scrooge, Frozone (x2), Frozen sis(x2), Chip and Dale, and red duck.

Also something interesting on the Gravity Falls Ideas set page a few days ago.  The rumour is it's been 'rejected' because it might already be in development. I love Gravity Falls and knowing LEGO they will release a $200 set without Soos and he will be a Comic Con exclusive. 

 
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