| Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | SylvainLS  | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 14:00 | | Subject: | Re: CMF: No more bags to feel for characters... | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, yorbrick writes:
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The other reason for it is to make less desirable figures sell
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Simple solution: don’t make less desirable figures!
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that leads to disappointment when you get one of the less popular figures, even
worse when you get two!
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Tell me about it: I bought one CMF22 on S@H to reach the amount to get the Hideout
(thanks prices in —9.99) and got the Bird Watcher, meh….
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| Author: | roball1956 | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 13:54 | | Subject: | Re: CMF: No more bags to feel for characters... | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, LegoMath writes:
| | As we know, some people like the ability to determine the minifigure inside by
feeling the bag and some people like the surprise of not knowing which minifigure
is inside the bag. To satisfy all, TLG could simply add a code on the box (I
believe TLG used to do this as I recall coded dots on each bag of the earlier
series).
Those people who want to know which minifigure is inside a box can learn the
codes (either themselves as a fun challenge to deciphering the code or by going
online to learn which codes correlate to which minifigures). Those people who
want to be surprised have the choice of not looking at the faintly printed coded
dots (or slightly indented dots) on a box.
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When series 1 came out in 2010 you could determine the figure type from the barcode
pattern. Various sites published a cheat sheet (Search on Brickset). As this
series included a Spartan warrior this caused it own problems and that figure
sold online at a premium price, it seemed lots of people wanted a Spartan army!
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 13:37 | | Subject: | Re: CMF: No more bags to feel for characters... | | Viewed: | 38 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, LegoMath writes:
| | As we know, some people like the ability to determine the minifigure inside by
feeling the bag and some people like the surprise of not knowing which minifigure
is inside the bag. To satisfy all, TLG could simply add a code on the box (I
believe TLG used to do this as I recall coded dots on each bag of the earlier
series).
Those people who want to know which minifigure is inside a box can learn the
codes (either themselves as a fun challenge to deciphering the code or by going
online to learn which codes correlate to which minifigures). Those people who
want to be surprised have the choice of not looking at the faintly printed coded
dots (or slightly indented dots) on a box.
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The downside of that is all the popular ones disappear so random pickers get
the less desirable figures only. I remember seeing people with bar code scanners
going through a S2 box of 60 in under 10 minutes, stripping out all the Spartans.
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| Author: | iprice | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 13:36 | | Subject: | Re: CMF: No more bags to feel for characters... | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, LegoMath writes:
| | As we know, some people like the ability to determine the minifigure inside by
feeling the bag and some people like the surprise of not knowing which minifigure
is inside the bag. To satisfy all, TLG could simply add a code on the box (I
believe TLG used to do this as I recall coded dots on each bag of the earlier
series).
Those people who want to know which minifigure is inside a box can learn the
codes (either themselves as a fun challenge to deciphering the code or by going
online to learn which codes correlate to which minifigures). Those people who
want to be surprised have the choice of not looking at the faintly printed coded
dots (or slightly indented dots) on a box.
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The article states that there will be no such markings/codes on the boxes to
identify the contents...
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| Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Jun 27, 2022 13:33 | | Subject: | Re: CMF: No more bags to feel for characters... | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | LEGO products | |
| In LEGO, SylvainLS writes:
| | In LEGO, yorbrick writes:
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Not being able to feel for them is a game changer for me. If I want just a specific
one, I don't want to gamble with an 8% chance of winning.
No doubt others
will feel the same, and boxes will get "accidentally damaged" by customers in
store like they were for the Vidiyo blind boxes.
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“While similar to the aforementioned Bandmates, the final concept is slightly
different and should be more secure, avoiding the widespread theft that affected
the Bandmates in 2021.”
I never got the surprise thing… except as a trick to make you buy more. As if
TLG needed that. And is that really efficient when you account for the damage?
It’s just a source of frustration.
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I understand the blind bags, as they want purchasers to need to buy more than
a complete set and keep chasing them to get a complete set (like Panini stickers).
Whether encouraging kids to gamble is a good thing is another matter, but clearly
LEGO don't have a moral issue with it.
The other reason for it is to make less desirable figures sell but of course
that leads to disappointment when you get one of the less popular figures, even
worse when you get two!
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