entremet
Member
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-lego-job-cuts-sales-drop-20170905-story.html
Cut the prices, Lego,
Cut the prices, Lego,
Lego to cut 1,400 jobs and 'reset company' after sales drop
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SuperBanana
Banned
An $800 Millennium Falcon will save the company.
Netherscourge
Banned
I love LEGO, but that plastic is way too expensive.
AlexFlame116
Member
Lowering the prices might help. Just saying.
entremet
Member
Those are doing well actually. Based on the article, they have too many unperforming product lines. Star Wars is not one of them.
Vital Tundra
Member
Im sure many would be more inclined to buy LEGO's if they weren't so god damn expensive. I would definitely buy more if they dropped the price. As it stands I get a few for my son every once and a while. Like come on don't cut jobs because you refuse to do the most logical thing.
TheCochese
Banned
Cut prices. Also fucking chill on the police stations.
Nevah!
thekonamicode
Member
Lego Dimensions toys were a mistake.
Karsticles
Member
Maybe stop overpricing your shit.
Wafflecakes
Member
Good.
Overpriced as fuck. Hope they go bankrupt.
Overpriced as fuck. Hope they go bankrupt.
Well that's not spiteful or anything.
Princess Viola
Member
idea: drop your prices
TheCochese
Banned
Tag quote.
Sunster
Member
I almost did once because I was in a mall and they were having a mini presentation thingy but then I saw the prices.
disappeared
Banned
Hell, Disney will probably buy them up at some point.
Lego will outlive us all.
1,000,000 years from now when Man is long gone and aliens set foot on Earth for the first time they will step on a Lego brick.
Vital Tundra
Member
Very true. Also their Minecraft Lego sets are super basic and incredibly expensive to boot. None of this helps them.
bonesmccoy
Banned
I was on a bit of a Lego buying streak for a while, but I basically picked up all the sets I wanted. The sets since 2012/13 haven't really interested me at all. The Medieval Village, and then the LOTR and early Hobbit sets were sooooo good.
Gimme more detailed medieval stuff!
Gimme more detailed medieval stuff!
20cent
Banned
Their entire collection is already copied by Chinese manufacturers anyway, time to move their production there.
Licensors royalties percentages are too high, some more greedy than others. I'd stick to create Lego City sets; but at the same time that's all this licensing that has saved them in the past.
Licensors royalties percentages are too high, some more greedy than others. I'd stick to create Lego City sets; but at the same time that's all this licensing that has saved them in the past.
Permanently A
Junior Member
Do they have knockoff bionicles?
I mean the market has just changed. It's like wondering why puzzle and gameboard sales fell when Tiger Electronics handhelds could be had for cheaper.
How many kids beyond the niche collectors or prior Lego fans are dying for the sets now? My 6 year old shithead cousin is asking for a Nintendo Switch and Splatoon 2 and not a lego set.
How many kids beyond the niche collectors or prior Lego fans are dying for the sets now? My 6 year old shithead cousin is asking for a Nintendo Switch and Splatoon 2 and not a lego set.
Sectorseven
Member
Mega Bloks, time to go in for the kill!
This right here is a huge reason I think.
nephilimdj
Member
More shocking is they have 20,000 employee's, are 90% just sales/marketing?
seems like only time I see a lego ad on tv is the next bionitcal/ninja-o/whatever lineup or paid news story about some dude who built a 100,000 lego piece item
seems like only time I see a lego ad on tv is the next bionitcal/ninja-o/whatever lineup or paid news story about some dude who built a 100,000 lego piece item
Funny enough I heard my Mother comment about it the other day while she was watching the news and she said the samething, Lego sets are too damned expensive!
BattleMonkey
Member
They would do even better with a price cut. The idea of the Star Wars TAX is also stupid as licensing fees aren't per product and especially not charged per brick. They paid for a license, there is no reason for them to have a higher per brick price, yes the licensed product is gonna cost more to help compensate for the license, but to calculate per brick is stupid.
ThreePiMatt
Member
A police station was like the largest set I got as a kid. #BlueMinifigsMatter.
entremet
Member
I do think 800 is rather insane as well, but isnt it a special collectors thing?
always crazy bacon
Banned
Too expensive, too many one use custom parts and focus on licensed properties. I used to love Lego as a kid and now I can afford to buy sets, even normal city ones I can't justify the price compared to what else I could buy for that money..
Allforce
Member
B-b-but it comes out to 10 cents a brick which is actually a really great value for this *insert Licensed Property* set! /LegoGAF
If my kid asks for LEGO it's a big "NOPE" from both of us, which is a shame. Just way too much money for some of these sets. If he's really got his heart set on one particular set we'll just go to AliExpress and buy the LEPIN version for 1/4th the price.
If my kid asks for LEGO it's a big "NOPE" from both of us, which is a shame. Just way too much money for some of these sets. If he's really got his heart set on one particular set we'll just go to AliExpress and buy the LEPIN version for 1/4th the price.
always crazy bacon
Banned
Lego have been chasing wales for many years now.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
They charge way too much on the decent sized sets.
AlexFlame116
Member
How about a compromise LEGO? You bring back the OG Bionicle sets and story, continue expanding on it and make it good, and I will buy every single one of them and never question y'all again.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
That is actually rare nowadays. Custom one use parts is what led them to near bankruptcy in the early 2000s. They have many special bricks now, but those bricks are actually widely used across most of their products for a year or so. And while they introduce new brick elements each year, they also retire some so they don't fall into the trap they did before.