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Someone or something has bought out the rest of Target's inventory for 10197. Was avail yesterday with min 8 per purchase.

Oh, but they do care...Lego dosnt want to sell to resellers. I believe many here can validate. Anyway, my point is, if you were to resell through their channels, your stuck with a lot of junk.

The set being this price shows many examples of problems marketing and why resellers shy away from becoming official partners. Lego still doesn't get it. Not sure how the new releases of Hobbit will fair, but scarey investments for many. My children reaffirmed months ago with no interest.

Are you sure about that? Take another look..as I said before.

They could drop the prices a bit lower. Saw same items for less in November in store after all discounts and gift cards. Maybe a good deal for some. :)

Lol, the modulars ARE NOT selling... FAO and RUs have to actually give away highway pickups to get their inventory sold....maybe Lego will realize soon they sooo need their resellers. Lol

Not necessarily true. There are ways people buy popular sets using their discounts etc., they are just smarter with what they buy.

You are so correct, without resellers their business would NOT be what it is today. The resellers are who are keeping their BRAND alive. The resellers are who probably make up for 65% percent of their sales and allowed their brand to penetrate the global marketplace. Let's remove that factor and the...

Your best bet might just be Ebay or Bricklink.

Well, all my crazy orders have shipped finally. I would suggest getting up earlier to purchase when they have their sales. Cheers

Is awful to hear the problems people had Saturday. I have expressed to Lego through a higher contact that people don't have time to sit around all day and retry, retry. That one might want to make their purchase and move on to their other plans for the day. Lego may have their hands tied with the IT...

Nice. I had a nice laugh on that! Still waiting for confirm emails for S@H or ANY correspondence on Saturday's purchases. At least with eBay there is some communication. I'm going to cancel my orders soon with Lego s@h if I don't see any movement soon, as I am not waiting to end up paying more elsew...

I took a hard look at the Lone Ranger train chase, for my son, and this set seems it should be around $59, but I suppose the tracks add some value more. I saw the republic ship last week in target.com, if you had purchased second one with 30% off that week! you could have got two for about $75 ea by...

..about your triple points, I would definitely speak to someone as they should not have to send any thing to corporate. What I don't understand is how they have the know how to make these complicated plastic pieces, package them and can't pull off the simple things, like keeping a web site running, ...

We'll with the pictures of the new restaurant set arriving soon, these three sets are not part of the display on the back of box.. I happened to notice that GE's price has jumped at Target.com to about 210.

New investors be careful before going out and buying 20 sets or filling their brick link stashes. Hope I'm wrong.


Cheers

We'll no invite this year. Must of been because I complained about their Lego builds being scheduled at 5 ish on a work night and the impossibility of getting my kids there at that time with all the traffic in the area (Boston area stores) and getting out of work. It will save me money anyway....

I scored these last night for $20 ea at Walmart.com.....was able to get these as low as$17 elsewhere last month

Atmail.. I have always received one, but not yet this year yet.

I have personally have gotten rid of all my Fire Brigades 10197 as Lego has just printed too many. There are too many flippers holding on to them and will keep the price stagnated too long. Lego printed many rounds knowing investors would be buying, and quite frankly successful at basically smiling ...