Except the fact that you don’t buy LEGO’s new products as much as the old ones.
Let’s not forget how many of them resulted in complete failures. Angry Birds Movie, Lone Ranger, Prince of Persia etc were complete disasters in terms of selling just because they were based on movies that didn’t perform great either.
I watched Nick on Planet Ripple’s latest Lego Rewind were Eljay was actually the main guy talking, were he looked back at “Dragons” an old retired Mego Blocks theme:
(Skip to 2:10 for reference)
I was shocked to see how cool this Mega Blocks theme actually was, that heck, It sparked my interest in becoming a Mega Blocks Fan! But nowdays Mega Blocks is almost 100% licenced and look what has become: Just a almost completely irrelevant toy brand. If licenses are indeed to future for LEGO, than I tell you, it would become nothing but a completely irrelevant toy brand, that has nothing to stand out compared to other toy brands. Mega Blocks has already been ruined by this mistake. I don’t want it to happen the same to LEGO. A lot of licenses might not necessary bankrupt the company, but it would sure do one thing: make it irrelevant.
So if you think that sounds like a bright future, than it’s your choice. Slowly more and more people will abandon LEGO, and it would be just a regular, irrelevant, toy brand, that nobody except the kids will care about.
Excuse me, but, what? You don’t what I buy, so how can you assume that? Most Lego sets that I buy are actually Lego star wars sets, so what you said just isn’t true. I’m really confused about that.
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Let’s not forget how many of them resulted in complete failures
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I actually think there were more non-licensed failures than licensed failures, but I would need to look more into that to really claim that for sure.
EDIT: Also, I owned some of those dragons sets, they were cool, but the figures were super brittle. As @Holi said, their newer figures are far better.
You don’t have any proof for that. But I do have proof for the ones I stated above. G2 was the only original theme we know for sure that actually flopped.
Listen, I love original themes but the fact that Pharaoh’s Quest, Alien Conquest, Power Miners, Agents, Dino (2012), Dino 2010/Dino Attack and Atlantis only lasted a year kind of shows something, doesnt it? That combined is less than Star Wars!
Hmm, I think I can argue against that, LEGODavid please step forward to argue against LEGODavid
That wasn’t because they didn’t sell, that was the way they were going at the time: made short-lasting themes instead of focusing on "big bang’ themes like they do nowdays. They made all those short themes and then shortly the replaced them with something else. So just because a theme was short-lived doesn’t mean it didn’t sell.[quote=“TheMOCingbird, post:194, topic:46770”]
Galidor lost Lego a lot of money.
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Znap didn’t do so well
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This is probably the only “original” (I say “original” because it was actually just a K’nex rip-off) that we know for sure that didn’t sell.
Oh, I thought it was just a Lego theme they made a show of. But, the show was partially funded by Lego, so I’m not sure if I would technically call it licensed.
