it was meant for kids, but that was the past. if you study the history of modular series, it is more towards adults or teen. I doubt lego will flood the market with rare sets, the best strategy for branding is to keep a distance from your fan to reach. else they wont have a section at LegoLand namely "hard to find", collectible would be still collectible if you can find them 24/7 at parkson/aeon?

eh RM15? i want some for MOC project need few stations, f1 for my sis to complete her set and maybe the red car for MOC parts hahaha...

Cannot blame LEGO ler, actually scalper-base is expanding. Back then not much people play LEGO even when 1st Shell release and all. The trend queue up trend came last year when t hanksgiving and halloween set started selling and next is bricktober.

more like when halloween and thanksgiving set release that timeline.

this one will be few years down the road where every "investors" are throwing their stocks. Thanks to newspapers nowadays that like to take article from social media is encouraging more scalpers to join the market.

now is scalpers that creating demands for the market because every new exclusive release they go sapu all. Then collectors thought walan sibeh hot, then all keep race to put name on the next to be call list. so if not much restock are taking place you will continue have short of supply issue for exclusive set.

This post has been edited by ilfort: Feb 2 2016, 12:49 PM

adult fans is always there, those fan-base on the other side of the world is way bigger. They comes out with great MOC. But like what u said maybe LEGO is still focusing on the kids market instead of adult and that is why we have shortages on large exclusive sets which is good for the kids when they can get their Friends, City and Ninjago set.

Bubble burst when your economy is shitty. Otherwise it will get more and more expensive and in early 2000's is due to LEGO set are badly design and too much of a customize parts.

LEGO set up so many brand stores across the globe, they definitely need to hold some specialty that only their shops has otherwise is hard for them to compete in the market.

This post has been edited by ilfort: Feb 2 2016, 12:55 PM

The collectible market keeps Lego popular and running. The adult fans are the crazy ones buying the big sets and I can understand that to a point, but the way LEGO is running locally is a big problem. Exclusive sets are limited in number compared to the other countries that have majority of the stock.

Scalpers aside, there's got to be a way for legitimate builders to get access to the sets without having to pay RM200-300 extra (on top of the RM200-400 you paid for the currency mess).

Sure, people are still buying from the scalpers so they're never going to go away but I'm just ranting because I'm getting annoyed I can't get a set released a few weeks ago because they bring in 10 per shop and never restock again (for example).

Why the hell should I go to Singapore, or to Legoland only just for a chance to find something which should be available in every damn Lego store around? It's not retired, it's not limited in any way, it should be widely available. Could be that LCS itself is playing some game here, keeping sets in the store while only selling a few. Who knows?



This post has been edited by refnulf: Feb 2 2016, 01:34 PM

I'm not sure about the one in KL though, as for Penang one, they have no choice but whatever sent to them from KL they just put up the shelf and hardly restock too.

Currency might be one of the factor for restocking, is like doing loss business now as ringgit tumbles. . . . that might be the reason. Just saying.

Walao just called ALL the LCS stores...and the valentine dinner set finished....finnito.

Why la a sudden surge of people buying Lego...

I agree bro...I heard no problem in other country to get those kind of sets...Guess lego has to open their own store over here or supply more to the retailers in this country...Hopefully once their factory in china we will have more supply..Anyway does anyone know whether there are ucs sets at legoland or do we need to go to singapore to get those..Planning for the ucs sets that is supposedly coming out this year.

That why after compare the price from bricklink and local store/scalper, I only decide which to go. For example, bought LaFerrari, Italia GT2, McLaren P1, and Porsche 918 Spyder from bricklink which cost around RM85 each. At local LCS/BoB/TRU store, they still don't know when will re-stock. Found one reseller shop,but sell at RM110, skyrocket price

Mini Cooper set price at bricklink now already RM400, yet to include shipping fees and probably import tax from custom. But get to buy from local seller at RM450. Therefore, I think is best to compare which sources to buy so that can save more money for more sets.

that one really limited unit la.

any lego shop in Tokyo and Osaka to treasure ? plan to see whether got modulars set or not.

Congrats on the new version...
I hope its still not too late..

Didnt see any F1 selling at that price. But yellow car and red car, yes.

This post has been edited by CalvinCLK: Feb 2 2016, 02:55 PM

congrats on new thread!!

This is my LEGO kampung

aiyo sleeping member

CNY around the corner...time to balik kampung...

in tokyo go to odaiba area...visit the lego discovery centre...try your luck

Go to facebook sell page and you will know why

want get the dinner set, last hope is LLM only.

too bad... i tot i wanna collect tat 1 too... but if too hard to get mostly im gonna pass too ~.~