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Subject:	Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:50:42 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.nl, Jeff Stembel writes: ... > I've heard from multiple sources that making a new mold costs $100,000. > Someone mentioned that a $15 price increase would be worthwhile to them for > those windows, but Lego would still have to sell 6,667 copies of the set just > to *cover* the cost of the mold. ... This assumes that the mold would be solely used for one set. But a 1x1 window would have applications beyond this single set. As Mike Walsh already noted, it would be used in a re-released Yellow Castle, and would undoubtably sell very, very well as a bulk pack in any color. If LEGO Direct wanted to make a business case for creating a mold for an element that would receive common use in multiple sets, present and future, the 1x1 window would be a fine candidate. After all, every time a new element is injected into any mold, the mold receives a little wear, and must eventually be replaced. LEGO must make new molds nearly continuously. For this particular element, it may be more than the mold. 1x1 windows with glass probably require an assembly jig that doesn't exist anymore as well. Cary

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		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
(...) Sell well to whom? Us? Maybe, but even then, I doubt much more than half the readers of Lugnet would be very interested, since it isn't very useful to people who build Technic or Space, for example. Then you need to factor out those who (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
(...) Good analysis. The jig probably would be a lot simpler than, say, the jig for assembling monorail motors, but it would need a jig, nonetheless. Brad has said LD doesn't have the brief to get molds made at this juncture. That doesn't in my view (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
(...) I have an original of set 398 and in my version, the 1x1 windows do not have glass backings. -- Thomas Main thomasmain@hotmail.com (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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		Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
(...) Its only tired to those who refuse to accept that TLC doesn't have limitless coffers. (...) Yes, they could. And I could one day fly a manned spacecraft to Saturn. It could happen, but it isn't very likely. (...) I've heard from multiple (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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