Retiring Soon - open speculation

[keymomachine]

6 minutes ago, crayxlp said:

this is a discussion forum and its totally inevitable (and normal) that ppl have difference of opinions. as for the fans base, question: I guess that most of the ppl born in 50's just loved Beetles.. can you imagine giving your folks "four exclusive Beetles minifigs" and expect them to look thrilled what a great collectors / reminder object to have? .. i just cant.. Beetles generation is now mostly in their 60+ and they just dont have much appreciation for stuff like this.. 

again, I could be wrong. So could you

I think Lego/Beatles is niche for sure. We got my father-in-law the Beatles sub last Christmas and he built it and displayed it for a while, but really he's more interested in getting every single Beatles book and recording that gets released. But I can't imagine every die-hard Beatles fan doesn't already have one of these if they wanted it. Wall-E was popular with older millennials (like me) who enjoyed Lego as kids and now are having kids and watching Pixar movies with our kids and thinking, dang, I want that Lego Wall-E.

[crayxlp]

4 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Perhaps the debate should be whether Beatles or Caterham will do better.

.. compared to.. ?

[Val-E]

Just now, crayxlp said:

.. compared to.. ?

each other.

[grabbitfast]

looking at the yellow sub sales   they look fairly good,will be a goer if retirement phase does not get strung out.

which I suspect it will.

Edited December 5, 2017 by grabbitfast

[ravenb99]

3 minutes ago, crayxlp said:

.. compared to.. ?

All comparisons are done to fire bikes around here 

[crayxlp]

thats a tough one.. most likely it depends on how many stores some of the most renowned UK members over here had a chance to deplete below the unthinkable sales price..  none of them attracts me much, but then Im not flipping

[Val-E]

5 minutes ago, ravenb99 said:

All comparisons are done to fire bikes around here 

However, Angry Birds are making a strong challenge as the benchmark for turdy investments. 

[richiej1979]

1 minute ago, Val-E said:

However, Angry Birds are making a strong challenge as the benchmark for turdy investments. 

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

[grabbitfast]

Just now, richiej1979 said:

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

bought a load of the ships when they were £15 at Argos and did ok flipping them,buy in price is king in this game if you want a quick turn around,

 

[ravenb99]

Actually bought a bunch of angry birds in closeout.  It actually has a following.   

[Val-E]

3 minutes ago, richiej1979 said:

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

I haven´t even got round to listing them yet, considering they are still available for 60% off or more on Amazon, it´ll be a while.

[fantomas007]

1 hour ago, crayxlp said:

this is a discussion forum and its totally inevitable (and normal) that ppl have difference of opinions. as for the fans base, question: I guess that most of the ppl born in 50's just loved Beetles.. can you imagine giving your folks "four exclusive Beetles minifigs" and expect them to look thrilled what a great collectors / reminder object to have? .. i just cant.. Beetles generation is now mostly in their 60+ and they just dont have much appreciation for stuff like this.. 

again, I could be wrong. So could you

I accept your opinion. I have just wanted to show that Beatles can have big potential and have some advantages in comparsion with WallE. Even the fans from Beatles age are old, they have still a lot of fans and it is a legend, maybe the biggest music legend. Its a Star Wars in pop music :-) WallE is just 1 movie from many similar. But the lego world has its own rules and even a bionicle or elves set can have bigger grow than a perfect AFOL set :-)

[John82]

1 hour ago, richiej1979 said:

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

Smyths cleared out the castles for £30, when the buy in is low even turds can make money.

Hell i've even made money on the 1 and only Rebel Combat Frigate i've bought. That in itself is a miracle.

[dcdfan]

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

[Phil B]

31 minutes ago, dcdfan said:

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

[legodelorean]

1 hour ago, dcdfan said:

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

I agree!

[mtchrs]

Australian site
Architecture Burj 2.0 went from retiring soon to retired in the space of a few days, didn’t even see it on backorder.
Not sure if other regions have this available.

[Guest TabbyBoy]

1 hour ago, mtchrs said:

Australian site
Architecture Burj 2.0 went from retiring soon to retired in the space of a few days, didn’t even see it on backorder.
Not sure if other regions have this available.

I'm hoping that Burj v2 does well as it's had a short(ish) run and v1 actually did OK.

On 05/12/2017 at 11:32 PM, dcdfan said:

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

It will not perform anywhere near as well as the Exo Suit so move along please..... NEXT! ;-)

[Brickbuilder.g]

Isn’t 42054 on the list to retire soon? Seems in stock everywhere

[Captain_chaos]

12 minutes ago, Brickbuilder.g said:

Isn’t 42054 on the list to retire soon? Seems in stock everywhere

It's already marked as retired in the EU (again).

[Brickbuilder.g]

Guess bigger technic sets linger more in US but either way I suspect it’s decent long term

[jaylay]

Guys quick question. Is 10249 Winter toy shop scheduled to be retired in 2018?

[TANV]

Guys quick question. Is 10249 Winter toy shop scheduled to be retired in 2018?

I think so. Sigh. I've been trying to get I've for weeks in time for the holidays. Epic fail.

Sent from my 5042T using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

[Will 4]

1 hour ago, TANV said:

I think so. Sigh. I've been trying to get I've for weeks in time for the holidays. Epic fail.

I bought mine in 2008

[cladner]

1 hour ago, jaylay said:

Guys quick question. Is 10249 Winter toy shop scheduled to be retired in 2018?

its on this years retiring list .