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Re: All this fuss about service packs and accessories
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct
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Date:
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Sat, 5 May 2001 15:32:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> Funny, but with all the fuss on lugnet these last couple of days about
> shop.lego.com in Europe selling old service packs and stuff, and demands
> that lego do same in USA, or start making them again, I have to observe that
> the reason they stopped selling them in the first place is because no one
> bought them (and the same reason they still have all these sets left over
> too).
>
> Is the fuss just a few people who crave these pieces, or is there genuine
> demand?
> If there is a demand - why wasn't it there less than 2 yeas ago when they
> stopped selling them? Why will it suddenly grow now?
>
> Is the fuss just because of the highish prices some of these things can go
> for on ebay, and people seeing dollar signs, or just want to collect for
> rarity value, or do they have need for the sets?
>
> In reality these parts on ebay reflect very few people selling to very few
> people - the prices might be high - but thats because they are collectors.
> It doesnt reflect a mass market for this stuff.
>
> Sorry, but a couple of dozen folks demanding this stuff on lugnet does not a
> market make - certainly not enough to fire up production lines
>
> Before anyone asks, I confess to having bought very few of these sets and
> only the parts I needed for some mocs I have in mind or under construction.
>
> regards
> lawrence
I'm sure I'm not the only castle fan who was really brought out of their
Dark Ages (in my case, since 1984) due to the introduction of the Star Wars
line, just as Castle was slipping into it's "mini-ice age." The only Castle
I saw on the shelves for the past couple years were the end of the Fright
Knights, and those did more to repulse me from my childhood Castle memories
than anything else. So until KK came along, I didn't look much at building
on my childhood castle collection, and now I find myself putting a fair
amount of resources into building it up - but mostly through eBay due to the
sorely lacking quality of the new Castle sets in comparison to yesteryear's.
And I think there are more than a few others that feel the same way,
especially due to the prospect of another "mini ice age" for castle (knights
& such) with the emergence of Harry Potter.
Kevin
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