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Re: the rereleased pirate sets
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lugnet.pirates
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Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:04:23 GMT
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I'd like to see new pirate sets. Sure, it's cheaper to re-release, but Lego
creates dozens of new sets every year, and from what we've seen in recent
times they could do a lot worse than a revamp of (what seems) a popular theme.
In lugnet.pirates, Timothy Carl Buchheim writes:
> Why only big sets? Well, there are several reasons.
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> 1) larger profit margins
> 2) Many buyers don't own any pirate sets. If they only get to buy 2 or 3 sets,
> they'll be happier with large sets. For someone who doesn't own any pirates
> already, getting a small set wouldn't be very interesting as they wouldn't have
> many pirate pieces/minifigs.
> 3) Those who were teens or poor college students when these sets first came out
> may not have been able to afford them at the time, but have the money to
> spend now.
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> I'm sure there are other reasons which I haven't thought of.
I always thought the purpose of the small sets is that you buy trolley-loads
of 'em, and have hordes of pirate mateys and/or Imperials :)
Michael Dallaston
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| (...) Me too. It might be that the best way to see this happen is to build and publish a bunch of great MOCs from current (or currentish) parts and engineer (or hope) to get them released in the MOC line from LD. (...) IIRC, _The Ultimate LEGO Book_ (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) rereleasing old sets costs a lot less. They don't have to do any set design, they don't have to make instructions, and they don't have to do any playtesting. They did design a new box for these, but that is probably a very minor cost compared (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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