> "lego" in toys, games in Belleville Use Distance Search to find Ads based on where you are and how far you want to travel. Get an alert with the newest ads for "lego" in Belleville.With the popularity of LEGO Modular sets with the LEGO Creator Detective’s Office (10246) becoming the latest set released this year, LEGO has announced that they are bringing back some of the more popular Modular sets including Cafe Corner (10182) and the Green Grocer (10185) with a new theme/subtheme called Revival. This weekend at LEGO Stores and Shop@Home, they’ll be selling the sets for a limited time for VIP members. The only catch is there’s no word on what the pricing for the two sets will be. Hopefully, they’ll be the same as before but considering inflation since they sets were first released, I bet they’ll be slightly higher than before. It was also stated that LEGO is planning to release more Modular sets in the future. There’s no mentioning of which sets will be coming but for now, at least we don’t have to resort to BrickLinking parts to recreate them.
Check out the full press release below as well as an image of the sets. LEGO Reintroducing Retired Modular Building Sets With New Theme Called Modular Revival BILLUND, DENMARK (April 1, 2015) – For many LEGO fans, the 10185 Café Corner and 10182 Green Grocer were some of our most popular sets in the LEGO Modular Building series. For the newer LEGO fans who may have missed out on them, we’re now bringing these sets back, for a limited time, the same way that they were released in 2007 and 2008, respectively. This reintroduction of the sets will also bring a brand new theme called Revival. To celebrate the return of 10185 Café Corner and 10182 Green Grocer, we are having a special LEGO VIP shopping event that will be one that you won’t forget! This weekend, April 3-5, we are making these two sets available in limited quantities on LEGO Brand Stores and on LEGO Shop@Home. We also have another surprise waiting for you during the checkout process but you’ll have to see what that is for yourself.
We’re aiming to roll out more retired LEGO Modular Buildings in the near future. If you tune into our social media pages in the coming months, expect to see sneak peeks, and hear our LEGO designers reintroduce these sets again in a brand new format. Modular Revival is just getting started, so you can expect a few things to change over the coming months as we plan to roll out these exclusive sets and who knows, maybe you’ll see other themes be implemented into the Revival series. We have a lot more to show you.If you are an American man born after 1945, you have almost certainly played with Legos. Earlier generations had Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, and Erector Sets, but Legos began taking over the world of building toys in the early 1970s. Meaning if you are under the age of 70, you likely played with them either as a child or as the parent of a child. If you are in your 30s or 40s, there is a good chance that you have played with them in both capacities. If you are an American man born after 1945, you have almost certainly played with Legos.
The tiny, plastic Lego building blocks are made by a Danish company called the Lego Group. It was founded in 1949, but modern Lego pieces weren’t invented until 1958. In the years since, many thousands of types of Lego pieces—they’re referred to as “bricks”—have been manufactured, and they are all compatible with one another. Because the bricks are very nearly indestructible, they provide the happy possibility that a man who kept track of the Legos from his boyhood could later commingle them with the Legos belonging to his son. What has changed a great deal is the culture of Legos. For instance, while a father can use his old Legos to play with his children, the presence of children is no longer strictly necessary as a pretext for a grown man to play with Legos. But then, I would say that. The Lego Batmobile that sits in my office—it’s set #7784-1; Lego sets are referred to by their model numbers—was built long before I found myself in a family way. For a grown man like me, one of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.
Respectability meaning, in the practical sense, a liberation to spend more money on Legos. Which is why my Batmobile is now kept company by an X-Wing Fighter (#75032) and the Millennium Falcon (#75030). Yet you could do worse than spend money on Legos. One of the quirks of the Lego Group is that the company uses limited windows of production for its sets. The typical Lego set is manufactured for somewhere between four and six years, after which it is retired. This policy has created a brisk secondary market. For instance, in 2008, Lego produced a set called Perils in Peru (#7628-1) that featured a cargo plane, a jeep, and assorted minifigures tied to the Indiana Jones series. The set originally sold for $49.99, but was retired by Lego slightly earlier than normal. Today Perils in Peru sells for $127, for a CAGR of 14.25 percent. What is a CAGR? The acronym stands for compound annual growth rate, and it’s the measure that Lego investors—a class of people known as “brickpickers”—use to evaluate the financial performance of sets.
There is an entire universe of these brick-pickers out there sifting through sales data and looking for the Legos with the biggest return on investment. They will often buy two copies of a given set—one to play with and one to sell. More serious investors will take more significant positions, buying, say, 10 or 20 sets of models they believe are likely to do well after retirement. For instance, with 5,922 pieces, the Lego Taj Mahal (#10189-1) was the largest set ever produced. Beginning in 2008, it sold for $299.99. Once it went out of production, the price shot up. Today the average Taj Mahal sells for $2,293.63 on the secondary market, giving it a CAGR of 33.72 percent. If you care about that sort of thing. I don’t especially care about the financial aspects of Legos, myself, except as they pertain to the desire to build certain sets with my kids. Before my children were of Lego age, I watched as a series of sets I wanted to build with them went out of production and slipped forever beyond my reach.