I really love Brick, and Brothers Bloom was really great too, but I'm not sold on the idea of Rian Johnson being the guy to take over Star Wars unless JJ Abrams is still going to be heavily involved.

Real Rob... very real. As for a price putting a set together, ya better win the lottery. Best guess.. errrrr 250k give or take.. prolly the latter. Vintage has gone up a tad now & with proto's/pre-production stuff prolly commanding more.

Have a read & check out the links in this thread. Some amazing stuff in the past auction links from 2011.

$250K for a loose set like that?  They're really selling for an average of $15k each!?

Incredible.

Better up the price of your car.  Its past $30k now with over a day to go.  That's nuts.

Yeah, no.  This is fun to watch.  It'd be nice to have that kind of disposable income, but I feel like I'm pissing money away when I buy a collectible that costs $250, forget $25k.

So does anyone more knowledgeable know if these are reasonable prices for that piece or if it's getting run up so high that it's likely to end up going to a deadbeat bidder?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1985-Kenner-Star-Wars-Droids-AFA-85-moc-Kleb-Zellock-salesmans-sample-1-of-1-/291167250870?pt=US_Action_Figures&hash=item43caeba9b6

Oh man.  That sucks.  I loved Gwynn as a kid.

Don Zimmer too.

Harrison Ford hurt his ankle...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/12/showbiz/harrison-ford-star-wars-injury/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

As long as none of these guys break a hip I suppose.

I bought Legos early on and bailed...  I consider, often, selling those early kits...  The first TIE Fighters, B-Wings, etc.  I just can't see keeping them.   I've taken a lot of my micromachines and other early 90's stuff and just done away with it, usually to Goodwill to avoid hassle. 

I love the Lego stuff.  I've never been able to properly display it and over the last two years I've gone way out of my way to fill in a lot of gaps in that collection.  So I'm sort of dying to have a room big enough for it all to go up.  There's OT Star wars (nearly all of it, just missing a few of the early kits and the new Sandcrawler), then there's pretty much complete sets of Classic Space, Futuron, Blacktron I, Blacktron II, M-Tron, Space Police I, Space Police II, classic Pirates...  Then there's a ton of the castle stuff from Crusaders up through Lion Knights.  Basically, OT Star Wars and then almost complete sets of all the lines I loved as a kid, so almost nothing is newer than maybe 1996 or 1997? 

Someday.

If you happen to have any of these older SW sets, they're still on my list:

7190 - Millenium Falcon
7264 - Imperial Inspection
8129 - AT-AT Walker
10178 - AT-AT Walker (Motorized)
101143 - UCS Death Star II
10198 - Tantive IV

Yikes.  Kings in 5 was too optimistic.