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Subject:	Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:10:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes: > In lugnet.loc.nl, John Henry Kruer writes: > > Oh, come on... Lego dosn't have the molds, they couldn't do it if they > > wanted to. > > This same tired argument again and again. Its only tired to those who refuse to accept that TLC doesn't have limitless coffers. > But, of course, they COULD do it with the right windows -- if they wished. Yes, they *could.* And I could one day fly a manned spacecraft to Saturn. It *could* happen, but it isn't very likely. > What exactly do you think TLC is in the business of doing? Don't have the > molds? Make new ones. It would jump the price? Maybe. I didn't realize any > of us knew that much about their internal strategizing, although I admit > it's not a bad assumption. But nobody knows for sure either, right? I've heard from multiple sources that making a new mold costs $100,000. Someone mentioned that a $15 price increase would be worthwhile to them for those windows, but Lego would still have to sell 6,667 copies of the set just to *cover* the cost of the mold. Since they are a business, as you keep saying, they have to make a profit. Can you guarantee they'd sell enough to cover their expenses and still make a worthwhile profit? I sure can't. > I think that Brad Justus may have said the Legends sets would not have new > molds made for them. Fine. That's a business decision that doesn't exclude > making new molds for old elements as if such a thing existed only in the > realm of the impossible. I'm fairly sure Brad specifically meant "new molds of old parts we don't have the molds for anymore," since what is the point of making a new part for a classic set that neither existed then nor now? Jeff

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		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
In lugnet.loc.nl, Jeff Stembel writes: ... (...) ... This assumes that the mold would be solely used for one set. But a 1x1 window would have applications beyond this single set. As Mike Walsh already noted, it would be used in a re-released Yellow (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
Jeff: You make statements like this because you like to think that you know something from the "inside." But you don't, and neither do I. Give it up. All I know is that making molds to make bricks is status quo part of the business TLC is in. If you (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
(...) I don't buy the excuse of "LEGO can't afford to make new molds." They make molds for new pieces by the barrelful every time a new line comes out. If they can afford to make new molds for a lot of weird, single-use pieces (Galidor limbs, King (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
(...) This same tired argument again and again. Obviously they are not doing it with 1x1x1 squared windows. I too defended the set as it stands, at the right price its probably a good deal. I said I hoped they killed more Legends and soon -- which (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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