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Re: UFO's
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:14:36 GMT
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I saw the same thing on the UFO sets, but it has been two model years
for the sets (At least in the US), and usually, some retailers mark them
down if they stay on the shelves. I thought the UFO's were decent (They
had some great parts!) but the insectoids are dreadful.
Scott Sanburn
Simon Robinson wrote:
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> Just out of curiosity, has anyone else got the impression that
> the UFO's that were withdrawn this year might have completely
> flopped saleswise?
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> I've seen tons of the two biggest
> UFO's going cheap. At the most extreme, Toys R Us had the
> second biggest UFO reduced from £42 to £15 a couple of weeks
> _before_ Xmas - not the time of year you want to be reducing
> the price of anything that's had half-decent sales.
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> I just can't help wondering. And if UFO sales are really poor, is
> the same thing going to happen to the Insectoids, who are presumably
> aimed at the same sort of market? (Not that I'm objecting - I regarded
> both series as the worst I'd seen from Lego for years)
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> Simon
> http://www.SimonRobinson.com
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| (...) Hmmm - I wouldn't have said two years in the UK, because they weren't released here until August 1997 - so here it was little more than one year before they were down to - in the case of the second biggest set - less than half price. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Just out of curiosity, has anyone else got the impression that the UFO's that were withdrawn this year might have completely flopped saleswise? I've seen tons of the two biggest UFO's going cheap. At the most extreme, Toys R Us had the second (...) (26 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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