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Re: Who had the 5571 Inventory?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:28:33 GMT
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Unless of course Lego rereleases it due to popular demand from lugnet ... :)

You realise of course that your mentioning the set made me go and look it
up on lugnet. Which made me think 'wow - that is a cool set - I want it'.
Which will of course probably drive the price up even higher <grin>

Simon
http://www.SimonRobinson.com

> So, what you saying is that I will never be able to get my 7740 (pout)? I • better
> start saving now.
> Chris
> 
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> 
> > In lugnet.general, cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu (Christopher Masi) writes:
> > > I'll go even further than saying the probelm is caused by the lack of bulk
> > > bricks. The bottom would fall out of the market for Metroliner's, Club • Cars
> > > (I have seen these go for >$300!!!!), and Airport Shuttles and the like if
> > > LEGO would make good sets. It is really that simple; if there is good • stuff
> > > to buy the demand for the old stuff will drop. [...]
> > 
> > I dunno.
> > 
> > Call me crazy, but I think the prices on things like the Metroliner would
> > go ***UP*** (not down) if LEGO made more "good sets."  The more "good
> > sets" there are in a theme, the more people want to collect that theme.
> > The more people want to collect a theme, the higher the prices go.
> > 
> > It's the same thing with Forestmen versus Dark Forest...  When Dark Forest
> > came out, people were saying, "Ah, this'll be great for people who want to
> > buy old Forestmen sets -- because many people will be happy with Dark
> > Forest instead."  But look what happened -- people saw how cool Dark
> > Forest was, and then they saw that Forestmen was as good or better -- and
> > prices on Forestmen sets didn't drop (maybe even went up, as might be
> > expected).  Once you're Dark Forest-complete, the next thing you want to
> > be is Forestmen-complete.
> > 
> > My $.02  :)
> > 
> > --Todd



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  Re: Who had the 5571 Inventory?
 
d'Oh! So, what you saying is that I will never be able to get my 7740 (pout)? I better start saving now. Chris (...) (28 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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