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Re: TLG investigation 1st answers
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Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:37:24 GMT
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Mike Stanley wrote:
> > for bigger sets with smaller (unprinted) bricks for yourself. My question
> > is: Does Model Team fill that need (if only partial)? I mean is that a good
> > direction?
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> I own one Model Team set - Blue Fury. If I weren't so cheap I'd
> probably try to get a couple of the older ones, just because the
> models are so cool. But no, to be blunt, they don't do a darned thing
> for me. I want to build large ornate structures from my own fantasy
> worlds and those that others have created - Castles and such. I don't
> want to build hot rods or helicopters or giant trucks. I've bought 5
> copies of 5542 mainly because I knew I could sell the train doors and
> windows to offset some of the cost of the sets and they were a good
> source for plates and such. The models themselves don't do anything
> for me, and I've never built them.
Ah, but you've BOUGHT other MT sets - 2 5571s at least. Granted, they were on
clearance, but TLG still got paid for them. And every MT set you buy for parts
STILL gets money to TLG. So I would think you would be FOR MT sets, if for
nothing else but parts you just can't get in quantity in new sets.
> Right now when I shop for Lego sets I don't even look at design. I
> check to see if one set or another has enough parts that I want and
> enough parts that other people want so I can justify paying the
> ridiculous prices for them and hope to recover some of those costs.
> If I walked into Target and saw 6086 on the shelf I'd buy every one of
> them in sight at full price, which is saying a lot for me.
AhHA, and THIS is why you would like MT sets, if they produced smaller ones,
right? I wish they would have $20-30 MT sets, I can't justify $50-100 that
often.
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| (...) Well, sure, given TLG's current anti-builder/anti-AFOL stance on parts packs and bulk orders, I recognize that MT sets are sometimes good for parts. I'm much rather just buy the parts, though. I agree wholeheartedly with what you said in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I know you won't be able to provide numbers to us, but I'd be curious to see how the newer Jr-ish style of sets sell in comparison to the older sets which were, unarguably, of better quality. As for "kids have developed as well" - if by that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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