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[quote name='lordwow']I'm actually working on setting up a LEGO blog and forums, I don't have the forums set up yet, but I'll give you guys the links when I set them up, probably this week[/quote]

hope you called it cheapasslego.com?

:lol:

would be interesting!
 
[quote name='xycury']hope you called it cheapasslego.com?

:lol:

would be interesting![/quote]

That would be awesome, and we can have a bald guy do video blogging. ;)
 
[quote name='lordwow']Haha, I'd rather not invite a lawsuit :cool:

Though I did find out the hard way you can't have lego in your domain name.[/quote]

What about if it contains "allegory"?
 
[quote name='cassidyarch']I found a lonely Crab Crusher at TRU today--not on the LEGO shelf, but in clearance, it rang up at $17--not bad for a $60 set with 583 nice yellow pieces.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for this. Stopped at my TRU and found the same set. Was marked on clearance at $40, but rang up at $17 and some change. I put it together, and it's a pretty sweet little set, especially for only $17.
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']Cheapass Brickers, Cheap Ass Brickers sounds like some sick sex toy site or something. :lol:[/QUOTE]

Well, to be fair, cheap ass-gamers could sound suspect as well.

I'm going on something like 4 months without having seen a lego set on clearance. Oh well, I'm poor anyways.

I did rebuild some of my old (1999-2000) Star Wars sets. Then I realized that I have nowhere to put them. Back into storage they went.
 
[quote name='Tybee']I vote Cheap Ass Studs. ;)[/QUOTE]

I'm fairly sure the words "Ass" and "Studs" should never be used in the same sentence ... regardless of whether they're cheap or full price ...
 
Last time bragging, I promise.
Cleaning my son's room and playing with our new digital camera...

DSC00028.jpg

These are all the sets we have yet to open, all xmas clearance, stacked from the floor to the freaking ceiling...

Total retail value: $1016.00
How much we spent: $313.50
I win.
 
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[quote name='encendido5']The Tower Attack is on clearance?? The Target I went to had like 5 of them, but it rang up at $30 regular price.[/quote]
It goes by area, in the northeast I think they are smart and realize they don't need to get rid of every set right now. There aren't that many new sets that need a lot of room.

I have noticed when I, now rarely, find a clearance at Target it's in the summer.
 
[quote name='180husher']Last time bragging, I promise.
Cleaning my son's room and playing with our new digital camera...


These are all the sets we have yet to open, all xmas clearance, stacked from the floor to the freaking ceiling...

Total retail value: $1016.00
How much we spent: $313.50
I win.[/quote]


I will post my build backlog too.. but I won't tell how much I paid because it's not as good as yours....

BUT

Is there any way to make a deal on buying clearence and playing shipping; love to get any of the bigger Mars missions or future sets, you cheap ass Lego'er.

;):lol:;)

Both my targets suck and the best I can do is just get 25% off, and that's rare. :cry:
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']It goes by area, in the northeast I think they are smart and realize they don't need to get rid of every set right now. There aren't that many new sets that need a lot of room.

I have noticed when I, now rarely, find a clearance at Target it's in the summer.[/quote]

Cool, thanks for the info. Hopefully we won't find ourselves fighting for the last clearance Lego set at the same Target this summer :)

By the way, I still have that Temple Escape set from Walmart for $35. I never got around to returning it. If anybody wants it, let me know, just pay for shipping. The box is in pretty bad shape though, seems like it got wet at some point.

edit: oops, just cleaned out my PM box.
Edit 2: I meant 35 + shipping costs, sorry.
 
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I live in Western Mass and the only Targets I go to are in Holyoke, Amherst, and South Worcester. Once in a blue moon I'll go to CT and out towards Natick, so you stay near NH and we should be fine. :lol:
 
[quote name='180husher']Last time bragging, I promise.
Cleaning my son's room and playing with our new digital camera...

DSC00028.jpg


These are all the sets we have yet to open, all xmas clearance, stacked from the floor to the freaking ceiling...

Total retail value: $1016.00
How much we spent: $313.50
I win.[/QUOTE]

Marvelous score. All the Targets near me have already been thoroughly cleaned out of Legos during 30% off. Now all that's left in the clearance racks are HS Musical stuff and 2 to 5 yr old toys.
 
The dumb fuckers at Brickset deleted my account... again... (It was my third one) :lol:

I just point out how fucking stupid they are, and how immature and foolish they are, and they delete my account. i wouldn't care by I wasted a long time updating all the sets I have.

The first account I yelled at them for deleting, or not posting reviews I posted for sets yet they posted other people's "i *heart* mi st@rz w@rzzzZ!!!1!!!", the second one I yelled at them over the fact they would delete my comments for "not staying on topic" when every topic turned into a Star Wars topic (I hate Star Wars), and this one was over the complete dumbness on "We don't post leaked images", two days after posting leaked images!

I would love to have a real grown up LEGO site in which you need to show an ID of something to get in.
 
[quote name='Animal7390']can someone post a link to the actual photo?[/quote]

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii11/husher180/DSC00028.jpg

It's amazing how fast these sets can go up in price. I was lucky enough to find the Batcycle with Harley Hammer Truck at Walmart a couple of months ago for $25, down from $30. I wasn't going to buy it because it wasn't much of a sale, but since it was the last one, I figured I would pick it up and return it later if I didn't want it. I checked ebay just now and find out it's selling for $70! I'm not selling mine, but I'm sure glad I bought it. It's my only Batman set since it seems they have discontinued the line.
 
[quote name='encendido5']http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii11/husher180/DSC00028.jpg

It's amazing how fast these sets can go up in price. I was lucky enough to find the Batcycle with Harley Hammer Truck at Walmart a couple of months ago for $25, down from $30. I wasn't going to buy it because it wasn't much of a sale, but since it was the last one, I figured I would pick it up and return it later if I didn't want it. I checked ebay just now and find out it's selling for $70! I'm not selling mine, but I'm sure glad I bought it. It's my only Batman set since it seems they have discontinued the line.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, isn't it weird they seemingly canceled the Lego batman line before the videogame was even released. I was at a toystore around Christmas time last year and some guy was asking for a batmobile set for his kid and I just felt bad because all the cool lego batman sets came out like 2 years ago and there was nothing in stores for kids when the game or the most recent movie came out (well, the newer lego batman sets did overlap a bit with the movie ... but the timing of the game and the fact they aren't making anymore sets makes no sense to me). Maybe Lego and Superhero licenses just aren't meant to be ... hell, I'm still bitter that Lego lost the Spider-man license to Mega bloks after the 1st movie ...
 
[quote name='etcrane'] Maybe Lego and Superhero licenses just aren't meant to be ... hell, I'm still bitter that Lego lost the Spider-man license to Mega bloks after the 1st movie ...[/quote]

I think it was after the second one.
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But LEGO didn't lose it, they didn't want to continue it. Sets that don't have a vehicle in them don't sell well, and LEGO lost a lot of money on Spiderman. I really lucked out with that, great deals. :)
 
[quote name='lordwow']I wish they had done TDK sets. I totally would have bought those.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I'd be first in line for the Heath Ledger-style joker mini-fig with lego pencil and table impulse set ... ;-)
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']But LEGO didn't lose it, they didn't want to continue it. Sets that don't have a vehicle in them don't sell well, and LEGO lost a lot of money on Spiderman.[/QUOTE]

I think it's also a matter of paying licensing fees. If Lego has to pay a license fee to make Batman sets or whatever, that cuts into their profits. If they can sell just as many units with intellectual property that Lego owns itself (say, Agents or Power Miners), then they make a bigger profit.

Of course, one would assume that the really popular intellectual property (i.e. Star Wars) actually sells a lot more than the Lego-created IP.
 
[quote name='BingoBrown']I think it's also a matter of paying licensing fees. If Lego has to pay a license fee to make Batman sets or whatever, that cuts into their profits. If they can sell just as many units with intellectual property that Lego owns itself (say, Agents or Power Miners), then they make a bigger profit.

Of course, one would assume that the really popular intellectual property (i.e. Star Wars) actually sells a lot more than the Lego-created IP.[/quote]

That's true too. Look at IJ and more so Star Wars, the sets are a little higher, or a lot with Star Wars, than what a non license set.

But even if it sold OK, I think they would have made more. I got the sets for next to nothing. If they were any cheaper they would have given me money to take the sets. :)

And they made the new Batmobile.
 
Yeah that is a cool cannon. My son is flicking those "cannon balls" all over his room and the cats are going crazy catching them.

Stopped by TRU today and saw the Tractor set = $14.99, want it but since it wasn't any cheaper than the Lego store, we will wait and get the stamps. Also saw Count Dooku's Star Sailor...not crazy about it, especially when I saw the price of $59.99!!! It's only 350+ pieces and has the "exclusive" sticker on it so we all know that means even higher than normal TRU markup.
 
[quote name='180husher']Yeah that is a cool cannon. My son is flicking those "cannon balls" all over his room and the cats are going crazy catching them.

Stopped by TRU today and saw the Tractor set = $14.99, want it but since it wasn't any cheaper than the Lego store, we will wait and get the stamps. Also saw Count Dooku's Star Sailor...not crazy about it, especially when I saw the price of $59.99!!! It's only 350+ pieces and has the "exclusive" sticker on it so we all know that means even higher than normal TRU markup.[/quote]

:lol: wow $60 for only 350.

man... thank goodness I don't like SW, but the pieces are great! but not that great.
 
[quote name='xycury']:lol: wow $60 for only 350.

man... thank goodness I don't like SW, but the pieces are great! but not that great.[/quote]

Oh yeah that's been known for awhile, but it's still insane, wait a month an I'll bet the set will be $70 at TRU.

However Nannan on brothers-bricks.com talked about how he got it for $50 with a coupon and sold the minifigures off for $57.

The tractor is $13... too bad. All the $5 sets are now $6-$8, the $10 sets are now $13, $20 sets are now $25.

I'm still kicking myself about not buying the Pirate cannon set for BOGO50% at TRU before Christmas, I just really hate TRU. :lol: I want to play with the cannons! :)
 
PICTURES!!!

Thoughts....
The Endor set is $130! (However that might be Canadian dollars)
IJ looks fine.
Power Miners are HORRIBLE! Wow!
Space Police! Now those are aliens!!! Wow! Too many really huge pieces in that one set we already have seen, but damn look at those aliens!!!! I like how there is no base, all Space Ships. I'm not planning on buying the huge set, but that is the nicest looking $100ish Space set I have seen since UFO 10+ years ago!
 
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wow real aliens!!! woooot

I may have to bite the bullet and like buy these sets at msrp... no way I'll be able to get good clearence sales.... maybe bogo free or 50% off or something.

I really don't like the Power miner sets. :(

I do like all of Space Patrol and Castle
 
If anyone lives near a Fred Meyer, they often have Buy 2 Get One Free deals on LEGOs. At least once a month for a week at a time. Prices are always MSRP so you stand to save up to 33%. Not too bad.

I keep wanting to get the Indiana Jones set at the motorcycle checkpoint but I just can't seem to bite the bullet. The Last Crusade ftw!
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']PICTURES!!!

Thoughts....
The Endor set is $130! (However that might be Canadian dollars)
IJ looks fine.
Power Miners are HORRIBLE! Wow!
Space Police! Now those are aliens!!! Wow! Too many really huge pieces in that one set we already have seen, but damn look at those aliens!!!! I like how there is no base, all Space Ships. I'm not planning on buying the huge set, but that is the nicest looking $100ish Space set I have seen since UFO 10+ years ago![/quote]
Interested in the Hoth and Endor SW sets.. not so excited about SP3 though. Very disappointed overall. I'm kinda interested in the one human ship w/ the lift turbines in the back though. And you can bet your ass all of those logos are going to be stickers.. >.
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']Everything is a stick, it saves LEGO a ton of money.[/quote]

plus it doesn't leave me with parts I can't reuse... I hate... er love stickers for that reason :applause:
 
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