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Re: More new sets each year
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:31:25 GMT
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Eric Brok wrote:
We all have seen the number of new sets progress each year.

Given our budgets it may be considered a leverage to have Town Jr, Racers I,
Bionicle, Galidor and such in the line-up, but still it gets harder each
year to keep up with the pace even to pick out just the good sets.

I feel what your saying... especially since i took a 66% pay cut to go
to grad school almost two years ago.

This made me wonder if anyone did the actual math and graphs. I'm curious to
see a simple plot of the number of new sets each year since the 1950's.

here's a simple plot (note that unknown or questionable release years
have been eliminated and that the data for 2002 is definately incomplete.)

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=205573

-chris



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(...) or if there was a 2 year product cycle there for a while but you can definitely see a pattern there in the 60s... lots, few, lots, few, lots, few... What is this a graph of? (URL) can't be number of DIFFERENT elements in that color.... (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)

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We all have seen the number of new sets progress each year. Given our budgets it may be considered a leverage to have Town Jr, Racers I, Bionicle, Galidor and such in the line-up, but still it gets harder each year to keep up with the pace even to (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.general)

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