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In lugnet.castle, Douglas R. Clark wrote:
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> Another thing, that strikes me as odd, is that Lego Direct always seems to refer
> to the expense of creating new molds as the reason for not being able to produce
> more monorail track, cypress trees and various older parts. This seems to be in
> conflict with fact that TLC is able to produce many new molds each year; some of
> them being specialty molds for licensed themes such as all the Starwars,
> Spiderman or Harry Potter. Certainly, once the licenses run out, TLC won't be
> able to re-use these some of molds for other themes (specifically thinking about
> license specific parts like the chewbacca head)?
Cost of new mold divided by number of parts needed equals reality check. TLC
needed far more Chewies than they need cypress trees (or monorail track) despite
what the AFOL community might feel. My guess is that they made 100K-200k
Chewbacca's. I don't see the demand for 10k cypress trees (much less 100k). If
they offered cypress trees at $10, would you jump at them or scream
highway-robbery ?
Ray
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| Hello! (...) If TLC still made "friendly" sets they would need tons of (cypress) trees. They used to add one or more trees to almost every building (houses, police departments, gas stations) in the old days. Those many trees (and flowers) made the (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| SNIP (...) I've been thinking about this for awhile. It seems that in the last few years, the number of new molds per year that TLC creates has been consistently rising. For example, for 2004 it looks like they have pretty much phased out most of (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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