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The 3 week old account who is posting this saying his "friend" who sent him photos won't get in trouble if someone on the internet sees and describes all the sets and the "set info", but will get in trouble if he posts the pictures he is describing, and also choosing all of the sets everyone on here wants in one single wave (when they don't even relate to one another), and posts prices, which wouldn't be made anyway even if the sets were true, and then posts some prices ending in .99 and some ending in .00...I find it a little ridiculous that some of you can't see this is obviously made up.

Very informational. I played Lego Island as a kid and have always wanted to recreate the entire island out of legos (like that would ever happen!) Earlier this year I actually made a cover for the best Lego Island song (the Hospital song) To anyone who has ever played the game, enjoy! :)

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There have been many, many, many over the years.....one that pops out right away is this: Target exclusive #4534 train set... I found this on a shelf years ago...it was not in their system. (had no idea what it retailed for at the time either) Brought it up to the cashier, she radioed to a manager who looked up the bar code further in their system, and said over the radio...$40, 75% off. Both me and the cashier thought she meant 75% off of the $40...I didn't understand how it was so cheap but got it for $10. Later I realized it retailed for $160 and the $40 was the clearance price, not the price to take 75% off of...oops. (I was probably like 13 years old) When Lego clearanced out their 9v train track....I bought about a dozen of the 4515 straight rails for my collection....got them for $4.23 a piece. I ended up selling a few left over that I never opened on Amazon for about $75 a piece last year. Lots of garage sales and random other finds as well....about a month ago a friend of mine found a large box of random sets for $40...he called me up straight from the garage sale and said there were "train parts" in it. He then said "she wants $40 for it and she won't budge...oh I see a part that says "Santa Fe"." At that point I was like "BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I told him I would pay him for the box but he ended up just giving it to my since it was my birthday the week before. I still haven't really looked through much of it since I've been so busy, but there are instructions for the Sante Fe engine (and the engine is about 95% built), the large train shed, another train set, and random other sets and pieces. This should definitely turn out to be one of my top finds once I get some time to look through it.

Anyone? Is this not gonna be released to the public?

Anyone know anything new on this? Release date? Availability?

Anyone have any tips for the retail price on this?

The new ones seem too cartoonish. I prefer the old but the majority here disagree....suit yourself.

I haven't been this existed over a new set since I heard pirates were coming back! And those turned out to be major disappoints in my book....I've been wanting this set for years!

What's the smallest set? And by set I mean something the majority of us would consider an official set, not some spare part or something strange lego produced. I'm thinking it must be one of the 15 piece sets with 1 minifigure?

I've found about half of auctions claiming to be complete are not. One set I got a few weeks ago claimed to be 99% complete, and was missing 89 pieces (it's a 600 piece set!) Just make sure to build everything you get off ebay and if it's missing quite a bit, have them send you replacement parts or get a partial refund.

Fantastic! I have no suggestions this time. You nailed it.

Old sets like this go for much, much more with the boxes (especially if they're in great condition) So, lots of people buy boxes individually to put with the set they're selling. You could probably get a pretty good price for the box itself (I have no idea just throwing out a rough guess...range might be $20-30?)

Hahaha I saw March 28th as the date (which is today) for the first post but didn't see it was from 2006! 4 years old....I was wondering why the pictures wouldn't show.

Haha wasn't thinking! I'm not sure what other colors for a OT figure he could do.....

I'd recommend changing the clone trooper to a storm trooper to keep all the carts in the original trilogy, and add 2 more (since there are 8 in mario kart). I'd add either a brown jawa kart or a brown chewbacca kart, and maybe a jarjar kart too.

I disagree. The magnets are $10, which is why these prices are up to the prices of a magnet one. These came in limited quantities and are probably sold out of the vast majority of TRUs already. Obviously, when there's a certain demand for a fig at $10 (the magnet one) and a cheaper price comes about (for the new one) in quantities not large enough to suite everyone's needs, the price on the new one will climb until it reaches the price of the old one. (it's a substitute good) So saying they've "tripled in price already" is a bit uhh, overstating it. It's at the same exact price as it's retailing for because it's still being sold at S@H. Also, I think so many people are hording the magnets up that it will take years for the prices to rise, but like any star wars set the price will go up eventually. It all depends on the amount of supply, and this time around there's so many people who are willing to resell them later on that I don't think they'll go up very fast at all.

My point is if you can buy stuff on ebay you obviously have an ebay account and can just use completed listings, which shows every auction that ended in the last 2 weeks. Seems a little more efficient then having people tell you a few random individual auctions here and there, huh?

I don't understand why we need a thread like this.....if people here don't have ebay accounts and hence can't look up completed listings for all these sets themselves, they aren't able to be buying the sets off ebay anyway. This just seems a little funny for something that should be common sense.....my two cents of course. Anyway, if someone doesn't have an ebay account but was just curious, I bought the sets at these prices (used, complete, good condition, includes shipping, USD): BSB - $100 SES - $150 RBR - $65 (got a great deal on this) CC - $70 imperial trading post - $115 rock island refuge - $60 armada flagship - $35

Don't forget the white hull with the Armada Flagship.

To maximize profit...like every business.

I got a used one off ebay for $100 + $15 shipping about a year ago. It was missing 2-3 small pieces...nothing major. Prices have probably gone up but I'm sure you could find one WAY cheaper than $163.

Easily one of my favorite Lego sets of all time. Love every detail about it. I picked it up off ebay a year or so ago and still have it built. The merchant ship is amazing.

Just about every set I know of that has coins has all 4 numbers, 10 20 30 40.....so it's pretty safe to assume for every 4 coins you have you would have 100 points. Just a thought.

Pound for pound by far one of the best pirate sets...I managed to get one extremely cheap in a lot with other sets. It looks so realistic and has nice dimensions (caribbean clipper seems way too wide for the length of the ship). This thing is a beauty, and perfect selection of figs.