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| | | (...) Can you explain to me why this: (URL) almost twice as much as this: (URL) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003 —Bruce Hietbrink
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003 —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003 —Gareth Bowler
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| | | | | | (...) True. I was hoping this theme would escape untainted, but no such luck. :( LeSigh (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Star Wars 2003 —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | (...) 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 —Gareth Bowler
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| | | | (...) So if it's licensing, why are the storyteller sets the only ones to suffer from this problem? Most of the rest of the SW line is quite reasonably priced. Look at the cloud car or AT-ST or landspeeder for example. (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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