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Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:25:33 GMT
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> > LEGO could easily prevent this by not selling the key parts (pantographs,
> > flags, landing stilts, etc) for individual sale.
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> Why would they want to prevent it? Complete sets would almost certainly be
> cheaper than purchasing the parts directly, so there's not really an
issue.
If TLG were to go to the expense of reissuing sets they'd have to:
1) begin production of parts that haven't been available for some time
2) print instructions and boxes
3) sort the parts into poly-bags and the poly-bags into sets
4) advertise them
5) distribute them (S@H, Lego Direct, whatever)
It should come as no surprise that all of this takes money. TLC would be
cutting their own throats if they did all this and then made the
hard-to-find pieces easily available for individual order. People would buy
the specialized parts and add them to their own collections to make these
"classic" sets. I know I would (but then again my budget is much more
limited than most...it seems that some people don't even worry about a
budget :-).
Will
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| Here's my two cents on the whole thing: (...) Why not simply substitute for newer parts. Great thing about LEGO is that it's entirely modular. (sarcastic remark, I apologize in advance.) Put another way.... if need be they could easily redesign a (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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