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Plus at least you can still get double points on exclusives, right now anyways, until LEGO deems that too much of a perk and gets rid of it.
Same if people are looking to get an FB for themselves. Yeah yeah I know ...chicken little, but it sounds like many credible sources are saying it is going out the door.
Again who knows if Amazon and Walmart are going to go at each other like last fall and have insanely low prices on these sets. That is all up in the air still I think.
Though I wonder if that holds true if LEGO EOLs a set and they no longer sell it (ie Clearance or price it to move)
But in fairness, imagine if they didn't discount it, but announced that production had ended and remaining sets would be sold at full price.
I would imagine they would actually sell out faster that way, resellers would finally stock up on the set.
Lego can make suggestions but the world is just too interconnected for them to be able to set a rule and for the whole world to stick to it...
IMO it is not in TLG's interests to not allow discounting anyway, its a sensible and key part of any retailers strategy and Lego should not be so stupid as to not realise that.
Battle of Helm's Deep
Haunted House
Tower of orthanc
Ewok village
But, I cannot think that the SSD is worth it to resell. Assuming it was bought at RRP, this thing has to get to $600 at the very least to make it even remotely worthwhile, but even that I would consider a failure. I cannot see this thing reaching a decent price ($800+) in the aftermarket, and would much rather stock up on sets like the SC, HE, VW van, etc.
Is it around for another year?
If it does poorly, do people start dumping GE and PS?
If it does super fantastic, do people start stocking GE and PS more aggressively?
I have no more GE/PS/TH left in stock and have no plans to buy any more.
The modulars are simply being kept out too long to be interesting to me.
The model of buying 2, keeping 1 and selling 1 later on may continue to work, but the model of buying 50 of them may no longer be viable.
FB is a fire station and will likely be the only Mod that is.
Therefore I see the long term of FB doing OK, despite the amount that will likely be out there. But I think the ones after do not really add a staple of LEGO in it, unless they eventually make a police station
I also see the TH doing well in the aftermarket, because if LEGO really will not allow discounts on exclusives anymore then I do not see many people buying a 200 dollar TH.
And once a set is gone, the value goes up. There will be those that will wait for a sale and miss it when its production run is over and have to buy one on the secondary market, or they are new fans or returning out of their dark ages and want it. I just do not see many people hording these at 200 per.
If it takes 4 years to double RRP, that isn't really a good thing. :)
In related news, Lego has done an incredible job with their recent actions, something a year ago which I would have thought impossible. They have effectively prevented me from spending tons of money on Lego. Good for them, I guess.
Maybe some smaller accessories (walking bridge, monuments, park, etc) to add to the "adult Lego city idea" or a 3-in-1 building, maybe a traveling carnival or parade, or public transportation system.
To get more people out of the dark ages, Lego will need to step their game up.
Also with the length of time some sets are available for now, it increases the choice of sets available for those new AFOL's just coming out of their dark ages. I would assume that this segment of the market are the people most likely to pay a a premium for the typical sets that have been doing well in the aftermarket up till now.
It's amazing the variety of large sets that is currently available.
* counting the B-wing
** counting #41999
Why spend over RRP on a retired set when just keeping up with the 500+ sets TLG is releasing a year is hard?
There is so much LEGO goodness these days that it has become easier to just ignore retired stuff.
A few years ago, TLG put out half as many sets a year. Just look at the total set counts released each yet for the past 10 years, the volume of themes and product today appears to me to be at record highs.
So future resale value of LEGO sets is likely to be less than it might otherwise be because of the huge number of sets TLG is releasing each year.
Good for fans, good for TLG, bad for resellers. :)
Also it was mentioned earlier that HD is on the way out.... Sources?
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