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I hate to break it to y'all, but resellers are not the center of the Lego universe. Correlation does not equal causation, particularly in the aftermath of a market disruption as large as the one caused by COVID over the last 13-14 months. Just apply Occam's Razer...what is a more likely explanation for the extension of Tree House: (a) it is a wildly popular set and TLG fell so far short of fulfilling its outstanding orders from retailers during the pandemic that it decided to extend it to meet the market demand, or (b) a small group of Lego customers who buy for resale single-handedly bought so many copies of one of the most in-demand sets during the pandemic from Walmart, Amazon, and Target (because LEGO Shop at Home was sold out for months) that Walmart, Amazon, and Target placed restock orders with TLG that were so large that TLG decided to extend the life of the set, which it would have retired had resellers not been buying? At the end of the day, you realize that we all make money reselling Lego when the sets we choose are popular enough that the demand for them outstrips the available supply? If resellers were the driving force behind the extension of certain sets, where would the demand that drives prices increases come from?

Don’t remember which one of you this is:

idk Anil Joy was my best customer name over the years. Had a Balz Myerhandz too. Richard Woodhead and Harry Bushpies in the last year. Wanted to make a list over the 22 years but never got around to it.

How I searched: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=3034&v=1&in=S&colorID=7&srt=3&srtAsc=D&ov=Y 2507 Fire Temple

Thanks to a previous customer who left a string of coupons behind, including a 30% off Toys (excl. clearance, $30 max savings), picked up 20 Looney Tunes minifigures (incl. all 12 different figs) for $73 at Meijer. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I sent a Lord of the Rings set to an Aragorn once. My mom was an ER nurse and had to treat a Donald Duck, Ronald McDonald, and someone she could only pronounce as Mr Shitty. Over the PA system

This happens every year...the only reason why it seems like a new phenomenon is because actual insight into retirement dates only started becoming more widely available around 3-4 years ago. Also, for every set that gets extended and has the attention of resellers, they are at least 10 that you never hear about. It's not like TLG keeps extending the classic large brick box because resellers keep building new warehouses to stockpile their vast hoards of that perennial set (which would have been a runaway reselling hit had TLG retired it after an initial run of 1-2 years). At the end of the day, TLG is a massive multibillion company whose product cycle decisions are likely driven by far more mundane concerns like Sven fat-fingering the number of boxes he ordered from the printer or an oversupply of an ABS colorant that is heavily used in a given set, etc. In my experience, even the best run companies tend to operate closer to "borderline dumpster fire" end of the spectrum than the "finely-tuned machine" end, which is the main reason I don't think TLG execs are sitting around scheming on how to manipulate unsuspecting resellers into buying products that tend to fly off the shelves on their own. Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

I should have kept my UCS Slave I. Future UCS remakes are not going to have that name on the boxes. That 20th Anniversary version is going to be

I still love this line. Not sure how well it will pan out, but some great, unique sets.

That's the worst name I ever heard...

Dickens is back https://www.stonewars.de/news/lego-40410-hommage-an-charles-dickens-juli-2021/

Lego have a vested interest in the resale market with Bricklink too. Double dip diet, like Jeff Bezos. If the average punter bought 5 more Great Halls because of the prolonged retirement speculation, someone at Lego HQ just may be smiling a little more.

This exactly. Lego sees some sets selling well in planned last year and extend. They don’t know or care if it’s resellers or normies buying the sets. All they see is increased sales. We screw ourselves by over buying.

first off, not every set should be treated the same, so grossly grouping them all together would results in mixed and potentially misleading conclusions. So if we're talking specifics I think there are some facts here in this recent discussion: Great Hall (license) retirement was likely extended due to resellers hoarding Treehouse (non-licensed but Ideas) almost definitely was extended due to resellers hoarding Gingerbread (non-licensed but seasonal) House TBD A couple that should have been extended due to reseller activity but weren't: Diner (non-license) Tantive IV (Licensed) Complicating the analysis are the COvid related stuff and supply chain issues. Not sure where I'm going, but I wanted to distill some potentially helpful data amongst the talk of fleas and whales

@redcellthere is no place for logic and rational thought here. We armchair CEOs know what we are ranting about 😜

Never said that resellers are nothing to Lego...just that resellers are not the kind of driver of Lego's strategy that many here think they are. How much of the $7 billion in revenue that TLG generates per year do you think are attributable to purchases by resellers? And what happens to those sales if resellers were to go away? Do you think they would just vanish...that no one else other than a reseller would be interested in buying those Lego sets? And who else were buying those particular sets? Let's see...Timmy Johnson's mom, Susie Smith's grandmother, Jack Prager's aunt, Nerdy McNerderson (for himself of course), Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo, and every other person who had an interest in buying those sets. LOL...sure...one of the most popular and successful toys of all time would be SOL if not for us resellers...I guess that's why LEGO Shop at Home has consistently banned resellers that it identified and why LEGO Shop at Home, Amazon, Walmart, and Target all impose quantity limits on purchases. Resellers are a part of the Lego ecosystem, but we're not a necessary part...we exist and profit because of the popularity of the product. Take us away and the product remains just as popular and does just as well...the products that we purchase are simply purchased by someone else.

Is big bird retiring?

The earthquake one kinda pissed me off. The engineers who built the beehive building had their building completely destroyed by like level 4, but the skeleton was intact so they kept it going. She said before it started that when significant portions of the build fell it was over. I would say that all 4 sides of your building falling off is significant. Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk

As soon as I saw the ship in Mandalorian, I instantly thought there was no way they were going to have "Baby Yoda" and a ship named "Slave I" in the same show. I suspected a move like this would be coming. Remember kids, murder is A-OK. The word "slave" is not ok. Disssssneeeeyyyyy...

Also, per The Brick Fan, the official name of the set will be “Bobba Fett’s Starship” and not Slave I. Apparently Disney is walking away from the original name so we may have seen the last “Slave I” labeled box ever.

When you want to feel important and think that Lego make his decisions checking the reseller movements..... Inviato dal mio SM-G955F utilizzando Tapatalk

Lego is a private company, with two major stakeholders. They don't respond to shareholders, because they don't exist. Yay LEGO!

He’s right you guys. Lego had $7B in revenue last year. Resellers are a flea on a hippo’s ass to Lego.

Y'all crack me up. I hate to break it to you, but the Lego world does not revolve around you and the other Lego resellers out there. And there isn't a group of sales executives sitting around a room in Enfield or Billund scheming on how best to manipulate resellers into buying more of a given set. Lego is operating on a scale far larger than anything the reselling community could impact.

"I ain't leaving my ship at some dingy spaceport"

Official box images - not sure it's worth the £150 RRP but I'm guessing it will be in high demand!

I think September-October the sales will increase. I assume the castle and train will do well. Others have faith in the high school but I wasn't able to acquire any on sale. I dont see the smaller sets doing as well.

#5 arrived today. Tempted to sell, but will probably hold for some inexplainable reason. Unless anyone wants to trade for a CC! 😂

Reviving this with the announcement of the smaller Boba Fett Starship, rather than Slave1. Checking BL the price is still suppressed, granted it’s recently retired. It’s price would be tempered by the UCS version. Is it too much to expect $300 this Xmas?