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Re: Why the early end to 10040 Black Seas Barracuda?
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lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:27:54 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Bill Vollbrecht wrote:
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Christopher Wiggenhorn wrote:
> > I just noticed tonight that the 10040 is listed as sold out (as opposed to being
> > on back order, which would give me a ray of hope). It was my understanding that
> > Legends were intended to be long-running releases (see
> > http://news.lugnet.com/lego/announce/?n=38).
> >
> > Based on http://news.lugnet.com/lego/direct/?n=5237 and
> > http://news.lugnet.com/pirates/?n=3676 it would seem that was available at most
> > 15-16 months. With most releases sticking around for at least 2 years, this
> > caught me off guard.
> >
> > -Christopher
>
> I would guess the main reason would be it isn't selling! No matter how desired a
> product once was, eventually the sales peter out (Hogwarts Castle for historical
> reference).
>
> Add to that the color change, they would have to produce all of the hull pieces
> in new brown, all the canons in new grey, (to which if I got the set in those
> colors, I would be less than pleased!) etc..... They are phasing out all the old
> colors, and with a set whose sales have stagnated, there is no need from a
> company standpoint to continue to produce it!
That rather sums it up nicely. Were the reasons for the color change so
compelling so as to elliminate the posibility of making future Legends sets
which truly represented the original ?
Personally I'm still waiting to see/hear reasons that satisfy that question. We
are now about three months into the introduction of the new colors. I'm willing
to wait until the end of the year before arriving at my final opinion. I truly
hope the color change is worth the opportunities lost.
Ray
> I guess this also raises the question of future Legends sets, will they be in
> the new color palette?
>
> And if none of that could be the answer, I think it might have something to do
> with the upcoming release of the new Jack Stone pirate sets.
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> Just my opinion!
>
> Bill
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