March 12, 201411 yr Author The first set is also the smallest one and have 1160 pieces. For both company's the sets are only for inside and are already sold out . I hope and think there comes at second batch.
March 12, 201411 yr Can I buy one if you make a second batch? Edited March 12, 201411 yr by Alasdair Ryan
March 12, 201411 yr Author I am already sold out Alasdair Ryan . The price off these very exclusive sets are way up now
March 12, 201411 yr Author I think you can better wait at the next tug to come out .(i mean not the second batch, but the next ship) Edited March 12, 201411 yr by VFracingteam
March 12, 201411 yr It seems big companies found the gold pot that Lego has been using for ages. Design a set using Lego bricks, put your brand in it (but don't call it a "Lego set"), build a few, build no more, and then let its scarcity drive the prices up as people will get to know about the set and will want one copy due to its "exclusivity". Only big brand name companies can use this formula though. If a John Doe try to do this, nobody will want the "exclusive set" with John Doe brand in it. If enough companies started doing this, BL prices that are already too high and going ever higher, will skyrocket.
March 12, 201411 yr Author Best Vee, I can say that i have buy almost mine parts from only 3 sellers . 2 BL sellers and pick a brick from lego and have not bring the price up. For disign and bring out a set, you must not juse rear parts and the company's don't want to pay for it and don't understand that you said that only 50 sets is possible. I have a big discusion with one of them to explain to him, that it is a ask and demand market and not how bigger the order how cheaper it's, but more how more you want that the cost rise the price up. The other company knows me and also the lego market how it's works. Edited March 15, 201410 yr by VFracingteam
March 13, 201411 yr Edwin, thats you won the jackpot! Your building skills and love to details are awesome. You have a good time now: doing your favourite thing with almost unlimited budget:) My congratulations! Good luck;)
March 13, 201411 yr 58 replies and building isn't started yet. Nice to see so many people around this project.
March 13, 201410 yr Author These are the first photo's from the ASD Tug and the set is release next month at their intern webshop. Many thanks for the great reactions so far
March 13, 201410 yr Author Nope, because of the ugly hulls from the floated lego ships Edited March 13, 201410 yr by VFracingteam
March 13, 201410 yr I like this more traditional style compared to your usual technic hull type. If I understood correctly this wont be the only model design? On 3/13/2014 at 5:48 PM, Alasdair Ryan said: Nice boat. SCHOOL takes all my time and building one takes DAYS
March 13, 201410 yr Author On 3/13/2014 at 6:47 PM, skppo said: If I understood correctly this wont be the only model design? yep, this is the smallest one in parts.
March 14, 201410 yr Author On 3/13/2014 at 8:20 AM, rm8 said: Edwin, thats you won the jackpot! Your building skills and love to details are awesome. You have a good time now: doing your favourite thing with almost unlimited budget:) My congratulations! Good luck;) Thanks RM8, but as you now to bring out a set is not always fun and have a very strickly budget. Also to make a model that can be make for the age 8-99 is a challence and can only juse parts that are good available and it must be good looking at the real ship. For me it whas more the challence to see i can do some project this big and it's more for the honour, than i make a small profit of it Edited March 14, 201410 yr by VFracingteam
March 14, 201410 yr Are you sure you can discuss this project in the open ... while it is still in progress? Don't get me wrong ... I live in a country ruled by lawyers. Edited March 14, 201410 yr by DrJB
March 14, 201410 yr On 3/14/2014 at 2:13 AM, DrJB said: Are you sure you can discuss this project in the open ... while it is still in progress? Don't get me wrong ... I live in a country ruled by lawyers. You may have a point. But, I've come to realize that Lego hobby is like Cityville, the Facebook game from Zynga. I was very addicted to Cityville for almost six months, a couple of years or so ago, specially after I found about a bot that would help me play the game and a myriad of hacks that would allow me to progress in the game much faster than intended (both forbidden according to Zynga's Terms of Service but Zynga actually never cared much about it). What was the catch about Cityville? The catch was that you would go crazy to make your city bigger and more beautiful so that you could be proud of it, and being proud of it meant also knowing that your Facebook friends (which you need to play the game and they need you to play their game) were watching. It was a lot about showing off your "creation", your city. Lego hobby is similar, specially for MOC's and MOD's. What's the fun in creating them if you will not show them off? No fun! Showing our creations is the core thing about them. Imagine you alone in this world having all Lego bricks that you could possibly want, but having no one to show whatever you would come up with? No fun! This hobby is a lot about recognition. Lego knows it and that is why Lego encourages any kind of instrument (like this very own site, for instance) that would facilitate the "recognition" part of the hobby. But you may have a point. It all depends on the contract terms, if there is one, that he signed with the company. And I hate lawyers... lawyer =
March 14, 201410 yr I am all for sharing and recognition. It is, after all, one of the driving factors that keeps us on improving the next time around. My concern is not about what TLG would think of this .... but more ... the people/company who contracted you to do this. If this is an exclusive design/set and they're paying you to build them I'm not sure they'll be too happy about you sharing details on here. Might be a good idea to read your contract ... in-between the lines too. On 3/14/2014 at 3:36 AM, Vee said: You may have a point. But, I've come to realize that Lego hobby is like Cityville, the Facebook game from Zynga. I was very addicted to Cityville for almost six months, a couple of years or so ago, specially after I found about a bot that would help me play the game and a myriad of hacks that would allow me to progress in the game much faster than intended (both forbidden according to Zynga's Terms of Service but Zynga actually never cared much about it). What was the catch about Cityville? The catch was that you would go crazy to make your city bigger and more beautiful so that you could be proud of it, and being proud of it meant also knowing that your Facebook friends (which you need to play the game and they need you to play their game) were watching. It was a lot about showing off your "creation", your city. Lego hobby is similar, specially for MOC's and MOD's. What's the fun in creating them if you will not show them off? No fun! Showing our creations is the core thing about them. Imagine you alone in this world having all Lego bricks that you could possibly want, but having no one to show whatever you would come up with? No fun! This hobby is a lot about recognition. Lego knows it and that is why Lego encourages any kind of instrument (like this very own site, for instance) that would facilitate the "recognition" part of the hobby. But you may have a point. It all depends on the contract terms, if there is one, that he signed with the company. And I hate lawyers... lawyer =
March 14, 201410 yr Author Of course i ask for permission, to make some details public for you here on EB. Because only there customers can get ore buy some model of it and it will never be sold at the public. Other wise nobody wil ever seen this set in public and for mine ego it's also good that i haved put so much work in it. Also the right and copyright of the model, building instructions and the supply of the bricks are with me. Only they have the right that this set as it is, are only exclusive for theme.
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