They didn't stop selling it. I think they never will. I'm going to be storing this enormous box of Lego forever.
Still an amazing Lego set.
Still, I'll be interested to see if you're right and it vanishes from the shelves in 6 months!
Our wives must use a shared Gmail calendar.
If demand warrants the manufacturer will just start pumping out more identical sets, like Lego is doing with their Harry Potter sets.
The only true collectible has to have some sort of natural limiting factor, like made in a specific year, or serial number sequence.
Harry Potter LEGO sets have a long life because Harry Potter has sustained popularity -- but even so, LEGO would rather issue N different sets, so LEGO fans buy multiples, than try to see N times as many copies of one set, since most consumers won't buy duplicates.
Really doubt it. JK Rowling is the Enid Blyton of our time. How many kids read Enid Blyton now?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton#Commercial_success
"The Twins at St. Clare's", in Germany known as "Hanni und Nanni" is so popular, the movies in 2010, 2012 and 2013 were some of the most popular German movies at the time, and the reboot in 2017 also was extremely popular.
And even in Britain, another author continued the "Twins at St. Clare’s" book series into the 2000s.
So, if Rowling does equally well, and her works are also continued by other authors after her death, we’ll have decades of new Potter movies and books ahead of us. The Fantastic Beasts trilogy is already a taste of what’s to come.
Collectors often aren't that rational and will value otherwise [functionally] identical sets much higher simply because they were released previously.
I bought a few with the idea of keeping them until 2069.
> inside their delivery boxes [...] two layers of pond liner [...] several bags of drying granulate [...] wooden boxes [...] in the dry attic
hackernews definition of "just" :)
http://phillipecantin.blogspot.com/2013/02/legos-magic-numbe...
When I was a kid, I had that "medieval" Lego set with knights and castles. My nephews still play with this set.
It's a bit sad that it's long been discontinued. I liked the simplicity of it all: just knights, horses, castles, etc. It wasn't tied to a franchise. I think it was "Lion" knights vs "Horse" knights or something like that (I found it on a database once many years ago).
Also sad: many of my Lego pieces have bite marks. I wish I could travel back in time and tell my younger self one thing or two about taking care of cool toys...
Now they have excellent orange lever pieces that work even better, and are included in nearly every Large set. (I wish I had them as a kid.) . I also discovered that the pointed end of a cheap spudger also works, but not as well.
I'm not planning my retirement around this or anything, it was just a relatively inexpensive thing to do, and seemed to be a fun thing to sell on the 100 year anniversary of the moon landings, or alternatively to give it to a child or a grandchild.
However, I already had one, as I like to try and 'hold' a copy of any sets that I think are special.
I tend to collect what I like, mainly Lego Technic, but I think my most valuable set right now is the big Star Wars AT-AT walker, but I have one of the older Ferrari F1 cars, the big Technic crane 42009, etc.
This article caused me to look into the kit. According to BrickLink[0], the average selling price is $148.83 One sold this month for $193
[0]: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=2100...
Hell, even the American building brick competitors aren't as good. You can tell Lego from any of the competitors by feel. By the way they don't hold together as well, etc.