Retiring Soon - open speculation

[Val-E]

Just now, Brian Briggs said:

The White House, Jokerland and Santa's Workshop are retiring, too.

Santa´s Workshop? No way. Curveball.

[Voltron]

We should start taking bets on what number lego will stop at

[botchy123]

5 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

Boom goes the Helicarrier!

Pass the popcorn please

[Guest TabbyBoy]

3 minutes ago, Brian Briggs said:

The White House, Jokerland and Santa's Workshop are retiring, too.

It's the 2nd time in the UK for Santa's Workshop, I think it'll come back a 3rd time.

[Phil B]

I think the intern who runs shop.lego.com accidentally left the WHERE clause out of the UPDATE query he was running on the Production DB...

 

Edited November 11, 2016 by Phil B

[Val-E]

2 minutes ago, botchy123 said:

Pass the popcorn please

1 minute ago, Phil B said:

I think the intern who runs shop.lego.com accidentally left the WHERE clause out of the UPDATE query he was running on the Production DB...

 

I think the intern who runs shop.lego.com accidentally left the WHERE clause out of the UPDATE query he was running on the Production DB...

 

Or the definition of soon has changed.

[botchy123]

Too salty, do you have any toffee ones.

[Val-E]

[Guest TabbyBoy]

It seems like the UK has stopped at 298 so I needn't open that large bag of Minstrels now. Minstrels will beat Hersheys hands down! ;-)

[Val-E]

Switzerland has 299!

[HandyHand]

6 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Switzerland has 299!

299 results for "retiring" at the Dutch LEGO Shop at Home as well.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

1 minute ago, Haay said:

299 results for "retiring" at the Dutch LEGO Shop at Home as well.

The 299th had better be the Tower Bridge!

[Deano1980]

Thank you, thank you thank you! Banderas smugface meme placeholder

Is the hellicarrier going ?

[HandyHand]

46 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Any series where the whole 1st half year range is retired the same year is doomed.

Not exactly true for Nexo Knights. The Fortrex didn't get the Retiring Soon label. At least... not yet  

[Val-E]

2 minutes ago, Deano1980 said:

Is the hellicarrier going ?

Yes, it just doesn´t know it yet.

1 minute ago, Haay said:

Not exactly true for Nexo Knights. The Fortrex didn't get the Retiring Soon label. At least... not yet  

40% off in any shop is an even worse tag. If they are culling Elves sets from August, what chance does Nexo have?

[Val-E]

TLG´s favourite song ATM.

 

 

[Martae54]

We have 18 retiring tags in USA is that right?

[JM123]

Lego has began to liquidate itself. Those F5 days to acquire Town Halls, Haunted Houses are over, good old days..

[Val-E]

1 minute ago, Martae54 said:

We have 18 retiring tags in USA is that right?

Trump instilling law and order already!

[Ciglione]

Have we ever seen such amounts of sets retiring? There is something fishy. Also the sales that happened lately (mainly in the UK). As a financial expert I hear the alarm-bells ringing.

Sales must have been really bad this year. 

Or a hostile take-over is in the works?

[Val-E]

So, to recap. Major done lines will be:

Scooby Doo

Jurassic World

Bionicle

Speed Champions S1

Star Wars up to Sept 2015 and some post 9/15 sets

Nexo 1h 2016 except flagship

Technic 2015 sets except Mercedes

 

 

[Guest TabbyBoy]

If LEGO are about to go belly-up, what do we do with all our bricks? Send them to Trump for his Mexican wall?

[Val-E]

2 minutes ago, Ciglione said:

Have we ever seen such amounts of sets retiring? There is something fishy. Also the sales that happened lately (mainly in the UK). As a financial expert I hear the alarm-bells ringing.

Sales must have been really bad this year. 

Or a hostile take-over is in the works?

Maybe they are going to start cloning Lepin.

[c_rpg]

3 minutes ago, Ciglione said:

Have we ever seen such amounts of sets retiring? There is something fishy. Also the sales that happened lately (mainly in the UK). As a financial expert I hear the alarm-bells ringing.

Sales must have been really bad this year. 

Or a hostile take-over is in the works?

TLG is private, so don't see a take-over as a possibility.

[Val-E]

1 minute ago, TabbyBoy said:

If LEGO are about to go belly-up, what do we do with all our bricks? Send them to Trump for his Mexican wall?

I guess this is the day the bubble burst.