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Still available at Spain's site.

Still available LEGO Shop at Home ES

That moment when you realize that you did NOT build a 10229 last christmas and instead of having 2 stashed away you'll have only one. I mean, I could have sworn I had put together the igloo, truck and mostly the roof. But no. I had to look at pictures and turn the house upside down to realize that I didn't.

Just received my first one... 41S4

When was that order placed?

It's Sold Out at LEGO Shop at Home ES at the moment. Edit: didn't read the earlier post from ToysPT. Move along, nothing new to see here.

Jeez, so I can get 50 but for 10 USD more than you guys would pay but you can

Are LOTR and Hobbit licenses the same?

I believe that in the licensing agreement there's a clause that marks a point in time where the license is no longer valid, thus, preventing the manufacturer, TLG in this case, from producing more products. And, IIRC, it was stated here several times that the license for LOTR expires in 2014.

Nowhere near Valencia as we have the market cornered here

Since when it's been 'Sold out' at LEGO Shop at Home EU? I just saw it a bit ago.

Really? I called them yesterday 3 times when they were on that same status and didn't get lucky

It's currently on 'Call to check' status. Which, as we know, will result in further heartbreak.

We are not important to TLG? You didn't see the fuzz resellers caused when 21110 was dried up within weeks of its release, did you? Randomnizing retirement is a way for them to screw up investing strategies. Random = chaos.

I think that this is what Ed has talked about previously, about the incoming chaos. Resellers had it as a thumb rule that modulars should retire fifo - first in, fiirst out -, but my money is on the assumption that Lego is changing this to blow resellers away, no longer ordered retirement but 'randomnized' retirement.