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Retired Product Update Thread (2014-2017)


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5 minutes ago, Phil B said:

70809-1 Lord Business' Evil Lair is officially retired on the US LEGO LEGO Shop at Home site: http://search-en.lego.com/?q=70809&cc=US - didn't see this mentioned here yet. Other TLM sets still available as far as I can see. TRU still has 70809 on sale for 40% off at the moment.

Add to that 70804-1: http://search-en.lego.com/?_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=-5847792621655522304&q=70804

and 70805-1: http://search-en.lego.com/?_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=-5847792621655522304&q=70805

70806-1: http://search-en.lego.com/?_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=-5847792621655522304&q=70806

70811-1: http://search-en.lego.com/?_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=-5847792621655522304&q=70811

70812-1: http://search-en.lego.com/?_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=-5847792621655522304&q=70812

70813-1: http://search-en.lego.com/?_dyncharset=UTF-8&_dynSessConf=-5847792621655522304&q=70813 (also still available at TRU.com)

all other sets except Melting Room (still on 50% sale) are marked as "Sold Out" in Red, which I believe means unless returned inventory shows up, they will be retired in the next weeks.

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56 minutes ago, darkhorseoflego said:

In the EU. Not retired in the US yet as told by tacsniper :)

 

1 hour ago, valenciaeric said:

The thing about the Red 5 being 'sold out' online in the US (across Walmart, Target, TRU, ShopAtHome.com, etc), is that they have been readily available for months on Lego B&M store shelves across the US. I think Lego is hesitant to put the retiring soon or certainly not the retired tag while they are on shelves. It's like begging resellers to get overly aggressive in avoiding limits.

That being said, i have no doubt that once in-store inventory is depleted these things are gone.

I truly believe that Lego (in the US) did this intentionally. It's easier for them to enforce limits on a few dirty QFLL's when you they get to look them in the eye as you buy them. 

IE: Hey this guy hasn't showered this week, no X-wing for him.

Also the appearance of a full shelf of 5 sets (and more in the back) makes the reseller THINK there are millions of these out there, no rush to scoop them up.

In fact, there's around 75 stores in the US, so even if they had 20 sets each, that's 1500 sets. That amount would be gone in a BLINK online if it was marked Retired.

 

I suspect lego "bottlenecked" the remaining Xwings by putting them in Lego brand stores only rather than selling them online to try to keep them in-stores through the holidays. 

Mission Accomplished, now off to retirement.

 

 

 

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30 minutes ago, mudcatsfan said:

 

 

The thing about the Red 5 being 'sold out' online in the US (across Walmart, Target, TRU, ShopAtHome.com, etc), is that they have been readily available for months on Lego B&M store shelves across the US. I think Lego is hesitant to put the retiring soon or certainly not the retired tag while they are on shelves. It's like begging resellers to get overly aggressive in avoiding limits.

That being said, i have no doubt that once in-store inventory is depleted these things are gone.

I truly believe that Lego (in the US) did this intentionally. It's easier for them to enforce limits on a few dirty QFLL's when you they get to look them in the eye as you buy them. 

IE: Hey this guy hasn't showered this week, no X-wing for him.

Also the appearance of a full shelf of 5 sets (and more in the back) makes the reseller THINK there are millions of these out there, no rush to scoop them up.

In fact, there's around 75 stores in the US, so even if they had 20 sets each, that's 1500 sets. That amount would be gone in a BLINK online if it was marked Retired.

 

I suspect lego "bottlenecked" the remaining Xwings by putting them in Lego brand stores only rather than selling them online to try to keep them in-stores through the holidays. 

Mission Accomplished, now off to retirement.

 

 

 

Good post, agree totally

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