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Wish Lego "reissue" old sets more, kinda feel like they are the same as Wizards of the Coast with Magic cards. I'll always regret not getting the Technic Merced

by bdz 7y ago

Wish Lego "reissue" old sets more, kinda feel like they are the same as Wizards of the Coast with Magic cards. I'll always regret not getting the Technic Mercedes truck (42043) when it was generally available. Argubly that's one of the biggest and most complicated set. Price is now ~400€ but it was 150€ before. Oh well

byron_fast 7y ago
This is a great idea. Supposedly the LEGO factory is set up to produce anything - let me order some nostalgia set from 1983! Like how the Magic: The Gathering people have undermined "rare" cards by just printing so many they can never be valuable.
- rsync 7y ago
  "Like how the Magic: The Gathering people have undermined "rare" cards by just printing so many they can never be valuable." I don't believe that that is the case ... Alpha/Beta/ArabianNights versions of currently printed cards are quite a bit more valuable ...
  - byron_fast 7y ago
    There's always something rare, but they have consciously undermined collectability by re-printing things and banning cards from tournament play.
- onion2k 7y ago
  The value of Magic cards on the secondary market does very little for the manufacturer. Why shouldn't they maximize their profit by selling as many as they can? People who want to speculate can just buy something else.
  - johnrgrace 7y ago
    Wait what? The secondary market value is why people are willing to buy new cards, it lets people justify spending a lot of money on new cards.
    - onion2k 7y ago
      The overwhelming majority of Magic cards are bought by people to play the game.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  Lego tried for a very short while to deliver sets 'to order', any set, even stuff you designed yourself.
  - byron_fast 7y ago
    Yeah they gave up on that which is too bad. I recall being able to upload an image, refining the output with a browser applet and getting a grayscale version of the image. All the parts were packed in neat little baggies like it was a real set. Mass customization is hard.
Sohcahtoa82 7y ago
As a kid, I always wanted the Galactic Mediator [0] set. It was $60 at the time, which my parents could never afford. It'd be cool to see a reissue of that. [0] https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/6984_Galactic_Mediator https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/6984_Galactic_Mediator
- dividedbyzero 7y ago
  Same with me with the Black Seas Barracuda (the huge pirate ship from the nineties) – they kept it generally available for a long time, far longer than most sets, but right as I was making enough in my first job to be able to really spare the money (and was actually toying with the idea of buying it) they discontinued the set for good and prices rose into the sky pretty much overnight.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    Both your comments make me want to dive into the storage space where I have all the bricks from the sorter project to see if I can come up with those sets. Bookmarked for when I have more time.

by bdz 7y ago

byron_fast 7y ago

This is a great idea. Supposedly the LEGO factory is set up to produce anything - let me order some nostalgia set from 1983! Like how the Magic: The Gathering people have undermined "rare" cards by just printing so many they can never be valuable.

rsync 7y ago
"Like how the Magic: The Gathering people have undermined "rare" cards by just printing so many they can never be valuable." I don't believe that that is the case ... Alpha/Beta/ArabianNights versions of currently printed cards are quite a bit more valuable ...
- byron_fast 7y ago
  There's always something rare, but they have consciously undermined collectability by re-printing things and banning cards from tournament play.
onion2k 7y ago
The value of Magic cards on the secondary market does very little for the manufacturer. Why shouldn't they maximize their profit by selling as many as they can? People who want to speculate can just buy something else.
- johnrgrace 7y ago
  Wait what? The secondary market value is why people are willing to buy new cards, it lets people justify spending a lot of money on new cards.
  - onion2k 7y ago
    The overwhelming majority of Magic cards are bought by people to play the game.
jacquesm 7y ago
Lego tried for a very short while to deliver sets 'to order', any set, even stuff you designed yourself.
- byron_fast 7y ago
  Yeah they gave up on that which is too bad. I recall being able to upload an image, refining the output with a browser applet and getting a grayscale version of the image. All the parts were packed in neat little baggies like it was a real set. Mass customization is hard.

Sohcahtoa82 7y ago

As a kid, I always wanted the Galactic Mediator [0] set. It was $60 at the time, which my parents could never afford. It'd be cool to see a reissue of that. [0] https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/6984_Galactic_Mediator https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/6984_Galactic_Mediator

dividedbyzero 7y ago
Same with me with the Black Seas Barracuda (the huge pirate ship from the nineties) – they kept it generally available for a long time, far longer than most sets, but right as I was making enough in my first job to be able to really spare the money (and was actually toying with the idea of buying it) they discontinued the set for good and prices rose into the sky pretty much overnight.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  Both your comments make me want to dive into the storage space where I have all the bricks from the sorter project to see if I can come up with those sets. Bookmarked for when I have more time.