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Subject: 
It may be 30 years...
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Date: 
Sat, 26 May 2007 02:41:29 GMT
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It may be 30 years...but Ouch!

I am assembling (the hard way--brick by brick) the 7153 Jango Fett Slave 1. Most of the bricks are not too hard to get; many fairly common bricks, etc. This started, as many of my projects do, as part of a bag of bulk bricks, that had a fair number of the parts for the set inside. A little detective work, and I was off and running.

But the cost of the minifigs--YIKES!

So...since I only have a few SW sets, and haven’t followed the rise and fall of this, could somebody take a few moments to explain the “why” of the cost of the Fett family minifigs?

Or have I just missed something rather obvious here?

Play Well and Prosper,

Matthew “The Brick Detective”



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  Re: It may be 30 years...
 
(...) Supply and demand, is my guess. (17 years ago, 26-May-07, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
  Re: It may be 30 years...
 
(...) Firstly, they're Fetts. Secondly, they're Star Wars minifigs. Thirdly, check the prices of sets in most of Europe compared to the US. Fourthly, did I mention that it's Star Wars? 'Cause it is. I was really irked a while back when I realized (...) (17 years ago, 26-May-07, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)

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