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Re: Why aren't we going crazy?!?
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lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle
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Mon, 21 May 2001 18:22:50 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Ralph Döring writes:
> In lugnet.pirates, Nick Cameron writes:
> > We should be going crazy. Think this over:
> >
> > -We see old technic and town sets clearly in modern boxes (e.g. labeled city
> > center)
> > -We see two pirate sets in all new packaging
> > -Lego dosn't usually make new packaging for just two sets, or limit them to
> > one country.
> > -Whenever Lego makes big sets in a theme, they also make lots of little ones
> > -Lego dosn't usually ralease things over $50 in only one country
> > -People may start to get mad that Lego is only selling things they already
> > have, so Lego will probably also make new sets • If you didn't get one word of that, let me interpret: EITHER PIRATES ARE
> > COMIN' BACK, OR EVERY THEME WILL HAVE OLD SETS RE-REALEASED (yellow castle?)!
> >
> > If this IS the july suprise, we may be pleased sooner than we think...
> >
> > NICK
> Some thoughts why I am not going crazy:
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> - Last year a lot of #6280 were sold at a german toy shop chain, although
> the Pirate theme wasn´t listed in the catalogue anymore
> - I am always on the lookout for old sets and I have found about 5-6 copys
> of #6289 sitting on shelfs in different toyshops
> - I have spoken to an owner of a german LEGOshop and he told me that for
> some (bigger) old sets TLG is buying back the stock from the shops and is
> offering them to big toyshop chains such as ToysRUs or Hertie (german
> derpartment store) for 25%-50% of the normal price. This is why Hertie had
> loads of the Technic Space Shuttle for DM 140 (about US$ 70) last year.
> - My guess is, that they had a lot of these sets left. Maybe all or a part
> of them are sets coming back from the shops and my have bruised boxes. This
> could be the reason for the new boxes.
> - I´d bet that TLG is not re-releasing old sets. They are rather selling old
> stock. So hope for the best but don´t expect too much.
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> ...just my 2 Pfennig,
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> dö - "I´m not even supposed to be here today !"
I'm afraid I have agree. I obtained the forklift, for example, as a
discounted set sold as a Shop at Home Special. Why would Lego reintroduce a
set in new packaging that it had to discount to get rid of in the USA???
Daniel
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| (...) If you didn't get one word of that, let me interpret: EITHER PIRATES ARE (...) Some thoughts why I am not going crazy: - Last year a lot of #6280 were sold at a german toy shop chain, although the Pirate theme wasn´t listed in the catalogue (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle)
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