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Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:51:48 GMT
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> > 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
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> Easier than designing and making new parts.
Yes, but they'd have to take something offline to produce these parts, and
there's no guarantee that the molds are still useable (or even exist). It's
also pretty clear that most of the "special" parts are made overseas
(Billund or Sweeden I think...certainly not the US of A) so they'd have to
be shipped to wherever set packaging takes place.
> > 2) print instructions and boxes
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> Ditto.
Yes, but still time consuming and costly.
> > 3) sort the parts into poly-bags and the poly-bags into sets
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> They do this anyway.
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> > 4) advertise them
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> Ditto.
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> > 5) distribute them (S@H, Lego Direct, whatever)
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> Ditto.
You're right, but this will, again, cost money. I still think that to go to
all this trouble and then make the key parts available individually would be
a bad idea (from a business POV). Do one or the other, but not both.
Will
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 | | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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| (...) Or to put a different way: Are the molds (that were used originally to make those parts) compatible with the current state of the art molding machines used by TLC ? A negative answer would imply the need to make whole new molds. Ray (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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| More of my two cents.... I think this makes about 4 1/2 cents so far: (...) time (...) So long as this were the Rock Raiders sets.... then things would improve in two ways. Regards, Allan (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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| Me and my big mouth! For the record...I AM NOT AGAINST REISSUING OLDER SETS OR SIMPLY MAKING OLDER PARTS AVAILABLE TO ORDER!!! I'm simply pointing out that there's more involved in this than many people seem to think. My major point is that, from my (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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