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Flintsmith

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  1. You weren't wrong. When I auctioned Piraka a couple weeks before the release, people went crazy. There are plenty of people who aren't in UK or US and want the Hero Pack. You're just too quick for us because we know everything. Open a pack and sell the trans-orange mask on eBay to the uninformed. Or, as suggested above, wait a year or 5.
  2. Thanks Munty. That is very generous of you. You'll be spending a lot of time at the post office filling out customs forms. Luckily for me, my daughter will get these for me. There's no way they'll have the same deal in the US. The equivalent deal is on now (get a free demolition set) and it doesn't add itself until the total reaches $30. My bet is they fix it first thing Monday.
  3. Someone without an UK address? White Huna (I wish)
  4. Am I too late? I don't see them. It wants to give me a demolition set. edit- nevermind. They don;t show it to IP addresses in the US and the first proxy I tried failed. It's a little disturbing that the artwork for the hero pack is that generic red brick and minifig artwork.
  5. It is the regular green color, not dark green. The seller graciously cancelled my order when I asked him to confirm the dark color. In the original auction he sold 14 of them, which I think greatly reduced the likelihood of its having been painted.
  6. I'll try to explain. There are two distinct ways things are sold here. 1) the seller says he will sell an item. He may or may not specify a price. In this case the first person to respond is given priority. All others are to keep out of the way until the sale or trade is complete. They are NOT to make other, (higher) offers to the seller. They are NOT to try to buy the item at all. If the seller and the first responder fail to reach a deal, then others. in the order they respond, can try to reach a deal. It is sometimes offensive if the second or third responder seems too eager. 2) The seller specifically invites multiple buyers to compete in order to to find the highest offer. Usually a time period is given during which offers will be accepted. Sometimes the offers are posted for all to see. Sometimes the offers are kept secret and only the highest offer is revealed. Sometimes not even that is revealed. The words you used are considered ambiguous. You said you would entertain "offers", which would imply 2) but the single letter "s" is not seen as sufficiently clear. Thus, some people are seeming eager while others feel that the responder-priority should be enforced. The system does not work well when outsiders arrive with items to sell because they often are unclear regarding their intent. No one is upset with you.
  7. I wouldn't be surprised if each one of those posters went for $20-30 on ebay. The huge vinyl game board Is amazing. The printing cost was probably $80. Coolness, age and rarity take it sharply up from there. How many of the paper posters are there? I bought a ToysRUs pack for the Bohrok card game and it came with a LOT of posters. I would expect you could easily get $100 for the vinyl game mat alone. Double that with the full game set up (Inflatable dice? How out-there is that?) Plus $20 per poster. You never know though what would happen on eBay. The posters I have sometimes sell for $10, sometimes for $30.
  8. Oh. We thought you were selling it because you said "I decided to put it on sale". Selling is allowed (even encouraged) here.
  9. The krana was orange. This has light shining through the back to show the hole that was left when I took it out. I'm DQ'd for a number of reasons. One of them is that it's not ice. It's epoxy glue. It looks like ice though!
  10. The seller clearly states "I do not really have a fixed selling price. I prefer to let you do your offers." Offers. Plural. Multiple offers. I think it's an auction.
  11. folder with other angles and some videos, all big.
  12. The 2:1:1:2:1:1 distribution of the kraata was seen across all the wild colors. The only reasonable explanation was that the mold they used had 8 kraata in it. One of each plus extra level 1 and 4. If that were indeed the case, it would support the idea that the Krana were made eight at a time and had equal abundances. Lego, I expect, uses logic when designing their molds. If the design for one mold has reasons for it to make 8 items (maybe the molten plastic flow path splits 3 times) the same logic would lead to similar molds for similar items. Regardin what price to report from an eBay auction... The bid amounts are public record. Maybe the bid from the third highest bidder would be a good number to use??
  13. Has someone made a list of everyone who owns one? I really doubt that there are any differences in the quantities made by LEGO. Back in the day we recognized pretty quickly that there were different numbers of kraata.. There are 8, not 6: 1,1,2,3,4,4,5,6 The Krana always seemed to have equal numbers. I had a huge bag of orange masks (meant to be given away at ToysRUs) and those were all roughly equal in abundance. Why would there be any different abundances when they made them out of plastic? The Xa is rarest in the VMKK (is this right?) because of psychological factors. It matched the artwork and its the strategist so it's the best. People don't want to trade it so it's rare. Is the Ca really the most common or is it just the most commonly traded because it's the one most commonly traded? I don't think a list of current owners would help anyway. These effects would have had their impact back when the universe was young. Some masks got into the trading cycle while others were lost. Once a mask is transferred once, it is more likely to be traded (or at least locateable) later. What do you think? To keep this on the topic of eBay, I recently embarrassed myself by saying one thing about my VMKK Ja when the truth was another. I'm going to post some pictures and information about what I learned about how to look for damage to the aluminum coating on VMKK.
  14. Really? Still? I deleted a bunch and thought it would work. TLH and others. You can still trade the blank kanoka until they get sent to me. I think I might learn how to silkscreen and make some Unity Disks, but I can always strip the paint off some generic Vahki Kanoka.
  15. You're right. just give it a cigar and it'll be Groucho Marx. ("Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. ")
  16. I was bidding on the VMKK Vu. I'm sorry for the confusion I added there at the end. Thanks Munty for trading it for my Ja. UK shipping is on me.
  17. I'll be good with any number over 5. We'll figure my count when the auctions end, if that works for you.
  18. I'll take all un-spoken-for blank GITD disks. If someone wants to pay you $10 for one, I'll let them go. (so I don't feel like a hog)
  19. If someone wanted to unload one, I would be happy to trade some custom masks. Those masks could be sold. I might even buy them back myself to keep things simple. Just sayin'
  20. Well, it's been a couple days and there's a sort of echoing silence, so I'll say $40 for the Bo. Ignore it if you want, but it's a start.
  21. You want "First Class International". That's in the $6 range. You're looking at the Priority rates. (I always advise adding a chunk of styrofoam so they can't even think about running it through the sorting machine.)
  22. I bet the hardest thing to find are the original posters. This guy has put this set up several times and no one bites at 50 pounds. Sidorak. Still no PMming. I'm interested in your Vakama.
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