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Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003
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Date: 
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:44:43 GMT
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Sure, Gareth, but within a reasonable price-point this is pretty good.  Just

Can you explain to me why this:

http://www.fbtb.net/hereis2003/4476.jpg

Costs almost twice as much as this:

http://guide.lugnet.com/set/1383

Note that the 2nd set contains 28% more pieces



Price point shmice point. Storytellers are total rip-offs. It's certainly
cool that these are accesories to the main Jabba's palace set, and they're
better than the final duel sets (especially the message one) but there's
still no reason they should've been more than 5 $.



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  Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003
 
(...) Gareth Bowler writes: (...) When I was talking about the price I meant the $30 set, which is fairly simliar to, for instance, this Harry Potter set: (URL) have a few figs plus a molded beast, they seem similar in size, both have issues of (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003
 
(...) I'll bet one or more of: - New mold costs. New mold shows up in only 1 set? Only one set shares the overhead. - Difficult-to-manufacture costs. Minifigs come pre-assembled and are 9+ actual pieces, some of the parts are larger, etc. - Lucas (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003
 
(...) Have you considered that licencing fees may be the reason for the inflated prices -Orion (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003
 
(...) Sure, Gareth, but within a reasonable price-point this is pretty good. Just add a whole lot of bulk tan bricks from S@H and you could do a pretty good palace. Tan arch bulk-packs would help, too, I suppose. For Tim: You're pretty cruel, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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