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Re: what makes a legend?
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 24 Oct 2001 01:06:10 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Geoffrey Hyde writes:
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> > How does not having the mold for an element affect it's reproducibility? I
> > would have thought that with all of the latest and greatest laser measuring
> > technology there would be *some* way of getting a new master mold for a
> > particular piece, providing you had the original piece to measure off from.
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> Sure, there is SOME way
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> > But there is probably a cost involved in doing this so you're not too keen
> > on it for that reason?
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> But that's it. Cost. This is a low budget operation and molds are not cheap.
> Precision tolerances are pricey. I have heard numbers batted around that I
> have a bit of faith in even though they were speculation... these numbers
> are 10-50K USD PER MOLD.
The solution here seems obvious... and free.
Use more plain old regular bricks in the design of future sets. No need for
new molds. No debates over specialized/juniorized parts. And best of all,
more good old fashioned bricks with which to build other stuff on your own,
once you've built the primary kit.
Take a look at the Jack Stone series. Any reason those columns couldn't
have been stacks of 2x2's? They could have saved one mold right there. :)
Frankly, the problem isn't that they can't afford more molds, but rather
that they already spend way too much on new ones each year.
Regards,
Allan B.
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| (...) "every problem has a simple solution. Unfortunately, it's often wrong" Just thought I'd toss that out to ponder. (...) Great advice in general. Not a valid response to Geoffrey who is asking "why can't we have this part back that we don't have (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Sure, there is SOME way (...) But that's it. Cost. This is a low budget operation and molds are not cheap. Precision tolerances are pricey. I have heard numbers batted around that I have a bit of faith in even though they were speculation... (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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