10220 - Volkswagen T1 Camper Van

[Val-E]

When people refuse to trade their RE for 1 T1, you know things are serious.

[Ciglione]

5 minutes ago, valenciaeric said:

When people refuse to trade their RE for 1 T1, you know things are serious.

And if they even refuse to trade it for a Chima Firebike we are in deep... euhm... trouble.

[Val-E]

Thank my lucky stars i didn´t go in deep on this one but it´s still a great set and with  the patience of a saint it will come through for y´all.

[RTRC]

Sell it to the US. Nobody over here cares about emissions or lying cooperations. 

[Ciglione]

T1 disappeared from the exclusive page on SaH Germany.

[Val-E]

That was an oxymoron but they have pushed a lot of stuff to "hard to find" tag instead, which is just as ironic.

[Neosphinx]

Don't see it in creator section either where other hard to find items like Palace Cinema still are.

[biniou]

I don't know why but two models can be selected.

One is retired, the other one is not:

http://i68.servimg.com/u/f68/11/29/64/44/volksw10.jpg

 

[Val-E]

old box, new box.

[tractorboy]

On 1/1/2016 at 10:24 AM, Neosphinx said:

Don't see it in creator section either where other hard to find items like Palace Cinema still are.

Yeah, just noticed that. The only way you can find it is by doing a site search, which is a bit odd.

It's also now 'OOS will ship in 30 days' in EU.

[HandyHand]

6 hours ago, tractorboy said:

Yeah, just noticed that. The only way you can find it is by doing a site search, which is a bit odd.

It's also now 'OOS will ship in 30 days' in EU.

Is it going? Is it really finally going? Please LEGO, don't toy with us any longer and finally put this Camper Van to rest. PLEASE!  

[Val-E]

Those are signs that something is up. Red 5 disappeared from Exclusives and was backordered too. Let´s not read too much into it too soon as we have the new box on the other hand.

[HandyHand]

Just checked for the 10220 on the Dutch Brickwatch site. ALL usual stores that sold the T1 till December are now stating: Sold Out. It's not in stock any longer at any of the usual toy / Lego stores. 

Of course, we've had our hopes up before that the T1 was going away, only to see a new production run come out and the T1 available everywhere. But TLG will retire it some day, and that day may now finally be coming!  

[Val-E]

It´s Xmas, stock is depleted everywhere, especially of playsets. I would not read too much into it - unless.....

It will be interesting to keep an eye on ebay sales if it does remain OOS, that will tell how much it is likely to appreciate on EOL.

As we have seen with others popular sets, the QFLL´s get sucked up in no time then there is general panic and it rockets.

When this one pops, it will be at 150 euros in less than a month.

Edited January 4, 2016 by valenciaeric

[HandyHand]

32 minutes ago, valenciaeric said:

It´s Xmas, stock is depleted everywhere, especially of playsets. I would not read too much into it - unless.....

On the other hand, the 10242 Mini Cooper didn't sell out. It's still available at many toy stores online. Even with 15% discount at Intertoys right now.

So either the Mini Cooper is really REALLY unpopular, or the T1 is not being restocked for 3rd party stores any longer which means TLG is preparing for its retirement. 

Let's hope the latter is the case!

Edited January 4, 2016 by Haay

[Val-E]

Which one went on discount for BF? That tells you everything and I would not rule out the Mini as a candidate for 2016 retirement.

[HandyHand]

8 minutes ago, valenciaeric said:

Which one went on discount for BF? That tells you everything and I would not rule out the Mini as a candidate for 2016 retirement.

There was no discount for Black Friday in The Netherlands, but if I remember correctly it was the Mini Cooper that received the discount treatment that day. 

So yes, it's definitely a possibility that the Mini Cooper will see its retirement this year.

[Val-E]

Sorry to derail but wasn´t it for all EU countries this time? 5% off Brick bounty, SOH, Mini, Friends Mall, EV and a couple of others that now escape me - maybe a train. Some of those are already EOL so it suggests the others´ days are numbered too.

If we go back to the 2014 sale, the only survivor is SOH and we know it doesn´t sell well.

 

[stephen_rockefeller]

This set just vot a new box which = not going anywhere anytime soon.

[Yinchuan]

On November 24, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Ciglione said:

T1 disappeared from the exclusive page on SaH Germany.

Noticed this on US LEGO Shop at Home this morning as well. Same activity as Red Five a couple months back.

[coal]

On 1/11/2016 at 2:08 AM, Yinchuan said:

Noticed this on US LEGO Shop at Home this morning as well. Same activity as Red Five a couple months back.

Do you think it'll retire in a few weeks?

 

[Jules_K]

11 minutes ago, coal said:

Do you think it'll retire in a few weeks?

 

No.

[blocp13]

hi new to the forum and lego investing, so don't know how relevant this is but i picked up 2 t1's from toysrus today only ones on shelf but they have 02s6 on seal so newly produced i believe, also john lewis is showing 10 plus in stock online, first time since christmas.

[Dr. Brick]

So bye bye retirement 2016. We may as well stop talking about this set for the next 6 monhs

[Roy vd M.]

By the time that camper will be retired it will have become a classic.