Lego early EOL'ing of a set from a series

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• BACbrix Member Posts: 655

  February 2016

  Power Miners #8707 was limited edition just like the Supply Plane was not for sale less than a year into the release of the set while all the others were. I specifically remember because I got into Power Miners towards the end and was having a hard time getting that set.

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• MrJ_NY Member Posts: 592

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  Would TLG do that? Just ask all the devout  Modular collectors about 10224 Town Hall
  

  

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• goshe7 Member Posts: 515

  February 2016

  Jurassic World #75920 is Retired while the rest of JW remains available.  

  

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• madforLEGO Member Posts: 10,835

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  GentlyBenevolent said:

  Lego sometimes will EOL a certain set from a series early, (thus making it scarce, expensive & sought-after), for example:-

  #9465 The Zombies from Monster Fighters & #60064 Arctic Supply Plane from City Arctic Expedition.

  Has Lego done this with any other series ????

  LEGO did it with the Mine sub theme and the #4202 mining truck as well. It is typically the set that is a retailer exclusive in the US that tends to go quicker than the others.
  

  

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• CCC Member Posts: 20,555

  February 2016

  We only think they EOL stuff early (or sometimes late). It may be part of their sales plan.
  

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• SumoLego Member Posts: 15,237

  February 2016

  I would suggest it probably their sales plan.

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• Oldfan Member Posts: 707

  February 2016

  Most of these examples are the "limited edition" sets sold exclusively by a single retailer (and shop.lego.com).  This is one reason I pick these sets up as soon as I can, and fill in the rest of the theme later.

  

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• piratemania7 Member Posts: 2,146

  February 2016

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• tratcliff Member Posts: 13

  February 2016

  #70703 Star Slice from Galaxy Squad may be another, it went unavailable at S@H months before the rest of the series. 

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• GentlyBenevolent Member Posts: 343

  March 2016

  tratcliff said:

  #70703 Star Slice from Galaxy Squad may be another, it went unavailable at S@H months before the rest of the series. 

  OOOHHH I've got 2 of those somewhere in my collection :)
  

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• Bumblepants Member Posts: 7,727

  March 2016

  There was a short lived creator house exclusive to target a few years back that only lasted about three months iirc. And the helicopter and limo set Walmart had a short lifespan too.

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• JudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,591

  March 2016

  LEGO Minecraft #21118: The Mine has been retired, which is very bizarre, given that it's a far better set than #21117: The Ender Dragon, for example. All other sets are still available.
  

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• MattsWhat Member Posts: 1,643

  March 2016

  ^it's £30 more than #21117 though. Maybe it only ever existed to test the water for the rumoured D2C set, see if anyone wants minecraft over £60 kind of thing.
  

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• Zon Member Posts: 213

  March 2016

  #76039 was only out for about 6 months before it retired.  

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• JudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,591

  March 2016

  MattsWhat said:

  ^it's £30 more than #21117 though. Maybe it only ever existed to test the water for the rumoured D2C set, see if anyone wants minecraft over £60 kind of thing.
  

  That's a fair point... I still think that it's the best Minecraft set so far. :-)

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• TigerMoth Member Posts: 2,343

  March 2016

  If EOL dates were vaguely predictable, what do you think would happen? A lot of people would hang on until the bitter end hoping for a better bargain than the last one. I imagine that's not in TLG's interest for a number of reasons.
  

  

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• BrickDancer Member Posts: 3,639

  March 2016

  City Limo and Helicopter #3222
  

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• blade_guy Member Posts: 220

  March 2016

  #60027 only stayed in the UK for 5 months then disappeared.

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