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    Old sets —Nan Zhou
   I think that TLG still has dozens of those old lego sets in their inventories. I mean, with all the ones they produced they have to have some in their inventory, right? (24 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: Old sets —Shiri Dori
     (...) They probably keep about ten copies of each (maybe more, maybe less) but if they do, they surely won't have them for sale... The issue of rereleasing sets has come up numerous times, too bad TLC (1) refuses to listen. They would make great (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
   
        Re: Old sets —Tim Courtney
   (...) Sanjay D'Souza commented that he saw a lot of old sets stocked on shelves at the Lego New Zealand headquarters before it closed down last year. None of these were for sale, of course. I remember when I was at Enfield poking around, I looked in (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: Old sets —Nan Zhou
   I think that the old sets would not be marketable in today's market. I mean, the space theme was created to be futuristic, but a lot of old sets like blacktron just aren't futuristic anymore. I think that the old sets would appeal to a lot of old (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: Old sets —Tim Courtney
   (...) You have a valid point here. While the older space sets probably wouldn't do well in the kid market, they would flourish as sets marketed for collectors. The concept of space, aliens, spaceships, etc has changed with our society as technology (...) (24 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
   
        Re: Old sets —Kya Morden
   (...) Hey! I like Pokemon, some violent video games (house of the dead for instance), and action cartoons (anime) and I'm an old cranky 22 year old.. (24 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
 

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