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Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question]
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Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:18:54 GMT
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It was interesting to hear him talk about the designs.  The orginal snow
speeder design had a working tow rope that was pulled for $$ concerns.  All of
the models have to fit the price point to a fraction of penny.

-john




In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 06:54:41 GMT, "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com>
wrote:

I bought one of every Lego SW set out there just because it was Star Wars
Lego.

HOWEVER, I bought the manymany further SW sets for PARTS, because the PARTS
in them just flat out ROCK in most cases.

I have seen many people post in RTL or lugnet.starwars that they were
buying the sets for the parts, because they didn't like TLG's renditions of
the vehicles.

And how many part sales/auctions sprang almost immediately after the SW
sets were released?  There were a some people parting-out sets they must
have bought at full-price.

I personally think most of the model designs for the SW sets are *awesome*.
Yes, MOC creations can easily be more realistic.  But MOC's don't have to
be commercially viable products.  That large-scale TIE Interceptor is
incredible, but I wouldn't expect TLG to start selling a set to build it.

Steve



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  Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question]
 
(...) That makes sense--profit (the money the owners get to keep) is earned on the margin. If they earn a few pennies from each set, and they can shave a few pennies off the cost of producing the set, and not impact projected sales, they've (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question]
 
(...) And how many part sales/auctions sprang almost immediately after the SW sets were released? There were a some people parting-out sets they must have bought at full-price. I personally think most of the model designs for the SW sets are (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

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