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As I was building 4480 Jabba's Palace, I was thinking "nice pieces, useful colours, but what will I do with all those Jabbas if I buy more of them?" Then I thought to myself ... Why it is uneconomic to make new molds for cypress trees etc which (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Molds - I just don't grok the economics
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Well, as for the cypress tree issue... Lego Direct is responsible for all the new re-releases, and it doesn't seem to have the power to make new molds, I guess to cut costs for more AFOL-targeted models. While the big fad models made outside Lego (...) (22 years ago, 18-Apr-03, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) First, it is a feather in the cap of the LegoDirect division NOT to resort to the creation of new molds or making a new mold for an old part where no useable molds exists. So for now, their policy is NO NEW MOLDS. But that is only LegoDirect, (...) (22 years ago, 19-Apr-03, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | RE: Molds - I just don't grok the economics
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Another clue to the economics lies in the sets' price per piece ratio. Some of the Designer sets go for as little as 5 cents/piece while Jabba's Palace is nearly 13 cents/piece. Star Wars licensing, raw material costs (for larger pieces), etc. are (...) (22 years ago, 21-Apr-03, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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