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Re: Old sets
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Wed, 15 Mar 2000 02:46:58 GMT
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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 collectors, but as you see the lego market progress
they seem to not target older collectors who have been collecting for a long
time and pay no attention to the age label, but rather to younger kids.
That's why mania magazine is so corny and why most of the new sets seem a lot
more farfetched than older ones. Lego has been taking a rather dynamic
approach to new sets especially recently, eliminating the pirate, aquazone,
and space themes, and expanding the new adventurer and underground themes. I
think we should have many people sign a huge petition and send it to lego,
showing the support they would have if they re-released the old sets. The
demand for even semi-old sets like blacktron II is so huge that someone is
selling a grid trekkor on ebay for $10!
In lugnet.space, Tim Courtney writes:
> In lugnet.space "Nan Zhou" <dimok_ripoblus@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> I remember when I was at Enfield poking around, I looked in a building
> and saw old sets (namely M:Tron Multi-Core) sitting nicely on a
> bookshelf. I'm sure they have old sets built for display/employee
> play time as well.
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> There have to be tremendous cool perks to working for TLG, especially
> if you're in love with the way it used to be.
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> -Tim
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> http://www.zacktron.com
> http://www.ldraw.org
> AIM: timcourtne
> ICQ: 23951114
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
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