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  On 11/11/2016 at 10:45 PM, c_rpg said:

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

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Everybody has got their price, maybe Trump has made them an offer as he's gonna need a lot of bricks soon!

 

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According to my filter there ar 580 sets on SAH right now and more than half are retiring "soon". There will be about 50-75 new sets coming out in 1H 2017 and maybe the same amount in the summer so that would leave about 450 by this time next year.

Guest TabbyBoy
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  On 11/11/2016 at 10:45 PM, Val-E said:

I guess this is the day the bubble burst.

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Quite the opposite, if LEGO call it a day, it's kerrrrrr-ching for a lot of us ;-)

Hopefully they've finally realised that they produce too many sets and need to consolidate a bit.

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  On 11/11/2016 at 10:47 PM, Ciglione said:

Why not? I know many people who sold their private company.

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Yeah, but it wouldn't be hostile then though? I don't know a lot about this kind of stuff, but doesn't a hostile takeover typically involve some party buying up stocks until they get a majority without the consent of the board / owners of the company.

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  On 11/11/2016 at 10:49 PM, Val-E said:

According to my filter there ar 580 sets on SAH right now and more than half are retiring "soon". There will be about 50-75 new sets coming out in 1H 2017 and maybe the same amount in the summer so that would leave about 450 by this time next year.

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TLG does their Springtime Cleaning in the November/December months. :D 

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  On 11/11/2016 at 10:50 PM, c_rpg said:

Yeah, but it wouldn't be hostile then though? I don't know a lot about this kind of stuff, but doesn't a hostile takeover typically involve some party buying up stocks until they get a majority without the consent of the board / owners of the company.

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Maybe hostile was not the right word. With hostile I meant a take-over by the competition. Like Mattel or maybe even Disney.

But it is quite logical that if they sell the company they want to show high sales. So the more they are gonna get.

Maybe Lepin made them an offer they couldn't refuse?

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I don't think this list is vastly different than the amount of sets that have retired in the past--but in the past they don't label all of them. 

Maybe it's just a new policy, label all the retiring sets. Seems a simpler explanation that all the conspiracy/foil hat stuff. 

Occam's razor, y'know. 

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  On 11/11/2016 at 10:55 PM, Haay said:

Well, I'd say that the Winter Holiday Train set (10254) which got just released recently is a really odd inclusion in this list.

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All depends on the definition of "soon". Maybe soon is something like February. It would make sense to cut production after the holidays and then bring it out of retirement again next year (if it sells well enough).

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  On 11/11/2016 at 10:52 PM, Val-E said:

There are no "weird" sets in the list. It´s all either old stuff or turds. Rationalisation.

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I hope so but something makes me feel very uneasy about putting any money into this brand these days. Something is changing and I don't know if it is good or bad for resellers. 

Guest TabbyBoy
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  On 11/11/2016 at 11:06 PM, biking_tiger said:

Didn't someone recently post that TLG was going to do a major makeover this year? Maybe cleaning house is part of that process?

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Pulling out of China would be a good start.

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