  
| Author: | dragonm  | | Posted: | Oct 4, 2021 14:54 | | Subject: | Re: Announcing Round 2 Projects | | Viewed: | 138 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, Actionman1964 writes:
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| | Dear Members, what they dont tell you here is once you have bought a project it can take up 8 months to come what use is that
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You say that like 8 months is a long time. You realize the Quest Builders LEGO
Idea was posted in 2017, right? We've already waited years for some of these
sets. I'd happily wait another year if that's what it takes for them
to treat this as actual crowd funding and simply fill all the orders that they
get. As it is, the scalper bots are far too fast and aggressive so I never got
the two best sets from Round 1. I expect rounds 2 and 3 to be even worse, especially
since round 3 is full of so many very large sets.
The limit of 1 will help a tiny bit, but only a tiny bit, and it's a damn
shame. LEGO is leaving money on the table. Big heaping piles of money on the
table. Quest Builder in particular is literally designed to be bought in multiples.
I could see devoted tabletop gamers buying 10 sets and legitimately using them
all. If they quietly coordinate for another celebrity endorsement like the one
that pushed the original Idea to 10k votes so fast, they'd have a real winner
in sales.
Given how incredibly time-consuming setting up a production line apparently is,
The LEGO Group failing to utilize each one to the utmost boggles my mind. Once
it's up and running they should be running it every day until they exhaust
however many orders they get. This custom ordering technique means they can
know with exactitude how many will sell, essentially eliminating the problem
of excess inventory. Instead they're going to all the trouble to put together
the army of robots necessary to bag all the elements for a set, then tearing
it down after 5000. I don't know what math they're using that says this
is their most efficient use of those robots, but it seems erroneous to me.
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