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Another bit of info...BigW has Mickeys fire truck at $12 or so, yet in the
US it's $10US, and in Canada, $14 Can [1]...Does this mean:
1) World parity pricing where it matters :)
2) Mickey Mouse isn't popular here, and the cheap price is to get interest
3) LA were forced to bring the sets in and want to be rid of them as soon as
possible. [This would also explain the soccer sets :) ]
4) Some other obscure reason
It'd be interesting to find out which of the above is the reason :)
[1] from a post in lugnet.general recently, complaining about prices...It's
nice to know that the Seppo's don't mind others having to pay top$, but if
they have to pay a higher price they think everyone is against them [similar
thing when the sets they want aren't available in the US...Castle sets with
silver armor, etc.] <G,D&R>
Benjamin Whytcross
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Ph: (03) 9856 5282
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Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deidre Rushton Brumby [mailto:drb@tasmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:51 PM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: New Pricing??
>
>
> In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > > Most of them were cheaper than the equivalent Star Wars models.
> >
> > Having mulled over this for a couple of days, it occurred to • me that Star
> > Wars models may be inherently more expensive than • Adventurers etc, because
> > Star Wars Lego will involve a license fee to George Lucas • (or whoever) while
> > non-licensed themes won't.
> >
> > If this is correct, then sets like Winnie The Pooh and • Mickey Mouse should
> > be more expensive than similar non-licensed theme sets for • the same age
> > group.
>
> I don't recall Winnie the Pooh Duplo being more expensive than other
> simiar sized Duplo sets, in fact I think I was surprised that
> the largest set
> was quite a bit cheaper than I had expected. Am going from
> memory though,
> not at home to check. Though it has just occurred to me that
> WTP Duplo
> had a lot of competition with non Lego brand toys in that
> theme. I'm not a
> SW fan so I don't know what sort of competition Lego had/has there.
>
> Overall, Lego definitely seems to be getting cheaper here, I
> hope it lasts!
>
> Deidre
> drb@tasmail.com
>
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| (...) What are you saying exactly? I didn't quite follow it (I was partly steamed at the use of the rather derogatory rhyming slang term for Yanks... that wasn't nice :-) ). Everything I've seen so far is more expensive here than it is in the US. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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