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  • Star Wars May the 4th Lego Specials Start Tonight


    Jeff Mack

    Tonight starts the LEGO May the 4th Star Wars Event.  To start with, you at least get 20% off most Star Wars items.  On top of that you get your Double VIP points on all Lego Star Wars products which ends up being a decent discount.  Based on discussions in the forum, it appears that many are starting to eye up the 75094 Imperial Shuttle Tydirium

    • Free shipping on all orders with no minimum.
    • Free 30602 First Order Stormtrooper (pictured above) with your order of $50 or more of LEGO Star Wars products.
    • Double VIP points on all LEGO Star Wars products.
    • Free LEGO-fied Star Wars The Force Awakens poster with all LEGO Star Wars purchases.

    All offers are good from April 30th through May 4th while supplies last at all LEGO Brand Retail Stores and online at LEGO Shop@Home.

    If you were lucky enough to get one of these invites below, you can get early access to a LEGO retail shop and hopefully get yourself one of those Limited run Space Slugs :)

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    LEGO Star Wars May The Fourth 2016 Sale List

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    Other Sale Items

    If you’ve made it this far you should also know that there are additional non-Star Wars items going on sale during the same sale period, from April 30th through May 4th. The items on list, too, will see the same 20% discount applied and free shipping with no minimum, but unfortunately there are no other perks to this list. Here are the items on sale:

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    Well at 20% off. And another 10% if you think about double the points...free poly per order 15-20 dollars and the poster (we shall say 10 dollars) makes the buy in fairly low..if you think like me lol...I just don't know how well the previous ones did...still new to this

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    2 minutes ago, Nsheppard9101 said:

    Well at 20% off. And another 10% if you think about double the points...free poly per order 15-20 dollars and the poster (we shall say 10 dollars) makes the buy in fairly low..if you think like me lol...I just don't know how well the previous ones did...still new to this

    The old ones did ok if you got them at 50% off, but they didn't do great.  I don't care about this one for investment yet, but I did buy one during this sale.

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    1 hour ago, Nsheppard9101 said:

    Well at 20% off. And another 10% if you think about double the points...free poly per order 15-20 dollars and the poster (we shall say 10 dollars) makes the buy in fairly low..if you think like me lol...I just don't know how well the previous ones did...still new to this

    new to the game,  how long will the poly figure stay at $15...   won't they drop like a rock when everyone receives them next week ( or are they a hold?)     and the poster will go for $10?   sell now, or hold?     just curious.    (trying to figure out the game)     thanks!   pp

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    7 minutes ago, plastic passion said:

    new to the game,  how long will the poly figure stay at $15...   won't they drop like a rock when everyone receives them next week ( or are they a hold?)     and the poster will go for $10?   sell now, or hold?     just curious.    (trying to figure out the game)     thanks!   pp

    $15? That may be the answer, I sold about 5 of them already for between $17-$31 on Friday/Saturday so if now it's $15..... Sell sell sell!

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    I wouldn't mind holding for a few months/years if the return is good. Polys seem to go up overtime. Obviously this poly isn't anything special but nevertheless for the "I have to have ALL SW stuff" I'm sure they would pay 20-25. If my buy in is 75 after tax (nothing special) but I hold for another 6-8 months and it retires I "should" be able to get 140-160. If I sell a poly around that time for 20-25 dollars I would remove that from my buy in making it roughly 50 dollars. If I get lucky and sell both and get 150 we say then I made 100 per SI. Not a bad return (if it goes according to plan lol)

    We shall see. I JUST decided to start reselling and buying stuff like 2 weeks ago. So brand new as well! NO ONE knows the price of sets 6 months 12 months 18 months etc from now so we all take logical guesses and hope for the best!

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    47 minutes ago, plastic passion said:

    new to the game,  how long will the poly figure stay at $15...   won't they drop like a rock when everyone receives them next week ( or are they a hold?)     and the poster will go for $10?   sell now, or hold?     just curious.    (trying to figure out the game)     thanks!   pp

     They used to start out at 15, and then rise over time (as the flippers supply dried out). But since the minifig is nothing very special, and times are not what they once were (so many flippers, and who knows how many of these were produced) - I wouldn't have the highest of hopes on this one.

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    thanks for all the replies.....  i was not sure if the polys were a hold or sell...    - i will probably just sell them and adjust the buy in for the sets they came with.    thanks again, pp

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    My thoughts on the Space Slug:

    In a nutshell, epic fail. I do not believe this was well done. I do not believe there is anything that makes this set special aside from being a limited release, VIP only set. The only ones who will keep this to build are completionists (if that is a real word). I feel cheated. I think TLG is losing grip or something. Why design a set with so little appeal? Do you want to feed the secondary market exclusively? Gingerbread House was so different. I HAD to have one for me to build, then I could think about selling the extras. I do not want to build the Slug. It will make a nice paperweight NISB for eternity.

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    I am a little confused.  You feel cheated because something you don't want had limited availability?  Or you had the chance to get one but you think it was poorly executed?  If you have it, quit complaining.  There are many of us who wish we had the chance to get this either for our collection or to sell on eBay for $250+ to fund other purchases.  If you don't have it and don't like it, then move on.  At least they didn't make a really awesome set with limited availability.

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    36 minutes ago, Poly 30286 said:

    My thoughts on the Space Slug:

    In a nutshell, epic fail. I do not believe this was well done. I do not believe there is anything that makes this set special aside from being a limited release, VIP only set. The only ones who will keep this to build are completionists (if that is a real word). I feel cheated. I think TLG is losing grip or something. Why design a set with so little appeal? Do you want to feed the secondary market exclusively? Gingerbread House was so different. I HAD to have one for me to build, then I could think about selling the extras. I do not want to build the Slug. It will make a nice paperweight NISB for eternity.

    An epic fail? Seriously? Maybe it's not as glamorous as the Gingerbread House to an unabashed Star Wars critic such as yourself, but I'll tell you that being a limited release MAKES it special all by itself. Now, include the fact that it's from an important scene in ESB and includes perhaps the most important of all Star Wars vehicles that is now three reasons it's special.

    Not to mention it was FREE with qualifying purchases across all LEGO stores in the world instead of just available at SDCC or some other convention that is impossible for most folk to attend and you've got the most important fourth reason.

    And yes, the worm is known as a space slug: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Exogorth

    PS I feel this needs to be said to others who've been following you in this thread...

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    1 hour ago, Poly 30286 said:

    My thoughts on the Space Slug:

    In a nutshell, epic fail. I do not believe this was well done. I do not believe there is anything that makes this set special aside from being a limited release, VIP only set. The only ones who will keep this to build are completionists (if that is a real word). I feel cheated. I think TLG is losing grip or something. Why design a set with so little appeal? Do you want to feed the secondary market exclusively? Gingerbread House was so different. I HAD to have one for me to build, then I could think about selling the extras. I do not want to build the Slug. It will make a nice paperweight NISB for eternity.

    You should have mailed your Space Slug to me since I did not get an invite.  I would have been happy to get it off you hands since you hated it so much...

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    @zskid00 @gregpj

    I don't mean to be a troll. My apologies. True, free is free, so I shouldn't really complain. However... I really wanted it to be better. OF COURSE the scene is iconic on many levels. The concept was sound, but I feel the execution was severely lacking. The point I was trying to make was that, as a collector, I don't know where this fits in my collection.

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    21 minutes ago, Poly 30286 said:

    The point I was trying to make was that, as a collector, I don't know where this fits in my collection.

    If you can't find a place for it, I'll gladly take if off your hands.  :derisive:

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    29 minutes ago, Poly 30286 said:

    @zskid00 @gregpj

    I don't mean to be a troll. My apologies. True, free is free, so I shouldn't really complain. However... I really wanted it to be better. OF COURSE the scene is iconic on many levels. The concept was sound, but I feel the execution was severely lacking. The point I was trying to make was that, as a collector, I don't know where this fits in my collection.

    The execution isn't that bad for what it is... Freebies are supposed to be small so not every one is going to be a grand slam. Assault on Hoth, now that one had bad execution... and they had well over 2,000 pieces or something to work with.

    If you can't decide as a collector where it fits, then you should have left if for another collector or you should try to sell it or trade it. Post it on BC and see what happens.

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    I might go this route... no special pieces huh? I like that....

    I did it for The Tatooine and Dagobah sets. I'll do it for this one too. And Tatooine has a rare element in it.

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    10 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

    I did it for The Tatooine and Dagobah sets. I'll do it for this one too. And Tatooine has a rare element in it.

    rebel.

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    On 5/1/2016 at 9:16 PM, Frank Brickowski said:

     

    Actually both of you are saying the same: Collecting has nothing to do with logic. It is only that each of you comes to another conclusion.

    In the end you cannot really be an investor if you insist on enforcing logic on LEGO collecting, you rather have to accept that the whole business model of LEGO investing relies on people making "not financially advisable" buying decisions which you make your profit from.

    I for my part am kind of an anti-consumerist, hardly spending any more money than really necessary on anything, and I already wonder about 99 % of other people's everyday buying decisions, be it food, shoes, cars or toys. So, of course I'd never start collecting myself because this would be pretty much the opposite of my philosophy. Still, I am very happy about the fact that there are hundreds of millions of people out there who DO like to spend a lot of money on all kinds of stuff they do and don't need (one of them being LEGO sets). Without them the whole economy would not work. So, my own philosophical conviction aside, as an investor I love other people's unreasonable consumption very, very much. If it's their free will to hand me their hard-earned money I won't stop them from doing so. They "are willing to pay", and I am willing to cash in. Logical or illogical, abvisable or unadvisable - I just don't care.

    Have you ever built a LEGO set, or is that against your philosophical convictions?

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    8 minutes ago, Ed Mack said:

    Have you ever built a LEGO set, or is that against your philosophical convictions?

    If he is like who he said he is, then he actually played basketball. Whether or not playing basketball conflicts building LEGO sets, I do not know.

     

     

     

     

     

    lol 

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    3 hours ago, Ed Mack said:

    Have you ever built a LEGO set, or is that against your philosophical convictions?

    Are you just trying to make fun of my views or what aspect of my post is your question exactly related to that needed a "quote"?

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    You know, there's something about the fact that LEGO's May 4 event took place on April 30. I don't know if it's funny exactly, but it does have a sense of the ridiculous. I mean, you take something that started as a bad joke,develop it into an event and then push it out to a 5 day extravaganza of shopping. It's like saying "This year, Black Friday starts on Monday." I do have to say that I love the fact that for5 days straight, LEGO has to pretend like they didn't just completely skip over the end of April and the beginning of May.

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    4 minutes ago, thoroakenfelder said:

    You know, there's something about the fact that LEGO's May 4 event took place on April 30. I don't know if it's funny exactly, but it does have a sense of the ridiculous. I mean, you take something that started as a bad joke,develop it into an event and then push it out to a 5 day extravaganza of shopping. It's like saying "This year, Black Friday starts on Monday." I do have to say that I love the fact that for5 days straight, LEGO has to pretend like they didn't just completely skip over the end of April and the beginning of May.

    But we all know Black Friday starts at 3am EST on Thursday and lasts until the following Monday ... so LEGO's just following suit.

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    12 minutes ago, Phil B said:

    But we all know Black Friday starts at 3am EST on Thursday and lasts until the following Monday ... so LEGO's just following suit.

    actually my analogy of the preceding Monday was the proper comparison.

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