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Hello everybody. I was thinking about how great this site is and came up with an idea for the owners of the site. If you guys read this could you possibly find a way to place a RETIRED logo next to the set as they retire. So when we are checking our brickfolio's we see which set just retired. Maybe even have a category within our portfolio that shows a retired section. Just food for thought. This site is fantastic and I use it almost everyday to feed my addiction for collecting legos.

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I suggested a similar thing the other day. :)

 

Whilst the presence or absence of a link to the Lego store works in some ways, it doesn't for people non-US.  The absence of a link to Lego shop might just mean it is not sold in this country.  Having a Retired Product sticker on listings would be really helpful.

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No way to really track it without somebody manually scanning the sets daily.  There are hundreds of sets that get retired at all different points through the year.  Some set go out of stock, sold out or whatever, then come back into production or inventory.  LEGO never declares a set "retired."  This is very difficult to track unless you have manpower doing it.  It is quite possible as the site develops, more and more people will be willing to volunteer their time to keep information like this updated.

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No way to really track it without somebody manually scanning the sets daily.  There are hundreds of sets that get retired at all different points through the year.  Some set go out of stock, sold out or whatever, then come back into production or inventory.  LEGO never declares a set "retired."  This is very difficult to track unless you have manpower doing it.  It is quite possible as the site develops, more and more people will be willing to volunteer their time to keep information like this updated.

 

Don't they mark it on lego.com?

 

e.***. Just search the set number and it will show Retired Product under the ones that are retired.  I did it the other day for Weathertop and then some Disney Cars vehicles.

 

I'd be happy to set up an auto-scraper for it, if you want, and put the results somewhere for you to easily grab from.

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Here's a quick example of what's possible:

for a in `seq 9470 9499`; do echo $a; lynx --dump http://search2.lego.com/?q=${a} | grep "Retired" ; done
9470
9471
9472
     * Retired product
9473
9474
9475
9476
9477
9478
     * Retired product
9479
     * Retired product
9480
     * Retired product
9481
     * Retired product
9482
9483
     * Retired product
9484
     * Retired product
9485
     * Retired product
9486
     * Retired product
9487
9488
9489
9490
9491
9492
9493
9494
9495
9496
9497
9498
9499
 
I'll leave it running overnight churning through all the 7xxxx and 4xxxx too.
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