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| | | (...) My mother is a antique/collectable dealer. Many porcelain manufactures occasionally re-release older models (from the original molds) and date them accordingly. These have the effect of actually increasing the price of the original, as Joe (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | Re: Supply and demand —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) I would posit that 90% of the time, the people buying old Lego sets aren't "true collectors". Most AFOL's don't collect things to say they have them, they collect so that they can build more stuff. I'm sure there are people who do both, but I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: Supply and demand —Erin Windross
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| | | | | | | (...) know (...) or (...) Why doesn't TLG (LC?) release the Metroliner not as a set but as seperate sets! e.g 4xxx Front engine, 4xxx Passenger car, 4xxx baggage car, 4xxx Sleeping car, 4xxx Observation car, 4xxx double engine, 4xxx Train Link (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Supply and demand —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | | | | | (...) What a brilliant idea! Even better, why not just sell the parts you can't get from some sets? Example: Tudor Walls and corners in red and yellow, Guarded Inn signs, Old castle Babes, a 1x3 red arch, etc. You get the idea... We can fill in the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Supply and demand —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's a *great* idea! And make a set of the basic oval-track and transformer as well, so peole can buy that if they need it. (...) LOL! Steve (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Supply and demand —Erin Windross
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| | | | | | | | (...) sets! (...) Well lets just hope with this new Lego Direct, the idea will become reality. (...) Don't they already have that? Erin -- In a recent poll 36% of minifigs said that a large BURP came out of a Coca Cola drink. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Supply and demand —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Just the oval and transformer (and wires and wall wart)? I don't think so... You can buy all the various pieces, but not as a single unit. Steve (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: Supply and demand —James Powell
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| | | | | | (...) know that if I ever bored with it, I can sell it on to some other fool for more or less the same price... I do not really think it is worth $190. (...) You are a fool to think that it has a value of $190. Really, it has a value of whatever (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | Re: Supply and demand —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | (...) <snip> How do you REALLY know that you have an old brick versus a new brick. I think Lego is not quite the same thing as old vinyl -- whose disk and cover can be verified often by dates right on the labels and so forth. (...) My point exactly, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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