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[phoinix]

i was checking lego shop@home and i cant find the green grocer anywhere!!
is this a mistake of the site or is this set gone for good?

[Rick]

Indeed, in the Netherlands it's gone as well...

(btw: this should go in Town, not Train Tech)

edit: 'Hard to find' may be indicating inventories are getting low...

This post has been edited by Rick: 01 February 2010 - 09:09 PM

[roamingstudio]

Green Grocer was there (on CH site) yesterday - and this morning - but I confirm has also disappeared now from the 'Exclusives' page. It is under the 'Hard to Find Items' page. It seems someone is cleaning up the website / db before perhaps releasing more?

In this case; Roses and Hearts for Valentines day (4004 and 852786 )

This post has been edited by roamingstudio: 01 February 2010 - 08:32 PM

[The Eye]

It's still in Canada, but it's Hard to Find. Looks like they're pulling it soon...

[roamingstudio]

Pulling soon? I hope not. In CH it has always only been listed under 'Exclusives and Hard To Find'...

Is this normal procedure for items which are going to be pulled soon? having just bought other models... pulls hair out in frustraition (wait - the other order could be amended... I hope).

It also appears under 'City' 'Town Essentials' http://shop.lego.com...aspx?cn=356&d=9 - so perhaps just some tidying. The links work(ed) for most European countries and were always listed as 'Available Now' with 'Hard to Find' logo.

This post has been edited by roamingstudio: 01 February 2010 - 10:14 PM

[Legoist]

Doesn't "Hard to find" on TLG website actually means it's easier to find than "Exclusive"?

Exclusive = can only be bought from S@H or Lego brand stores
Hard to Find = as above, plus can be found in special chain shops (e.g. Toys'R'Us)

It's got nothing to do with the amount of copies left. Shortage is reflected in the status "Call to check product availability" and "Sold out", which can be temporary and not necessarily a sign of discontinuation of the set.

[Badsneaker]

Legoist, on Feb 1 2010, 06:14 PM, said:

Doesn't "Hard to find" on TLG website actually means it's easier to find than "Exclusive"?

Exclusive = can only be bought from S@H or Lego brand stores
Hard to Find = as above, plus can be found in special chain shops (e.g. Toys'R'Us)

It's got nothing to do with the amount of copies left. Shortage is reflected in the status "Call to check product availability" and "Sold out", which can be temporary and not necessarily a sign of discontinuation of the set.

Absolutely correct Legoist.

[fyparr]

Lucky me I guess, I bought it yesterday from my nearby LEGO store. Buy 'em up before they reach Cafe Corner prices!

S@H for the US no longer has Green Grocer listed under exclusive and hard to find items, but Grand Emporium has been added with a scheduled release date of February 20th.

[TJJohn12]

fyparr, on Feb 1 2010, 11:02 PM, said:

Lucky me I guess, I bought it yesterday from my nearby LEGO store. Buy 'em up before they reach Cafe Corner prices!

S@H for the US no longer has Green Grocer listed under exclusive and hard to find items, but Grand Emporium has been added with a scheduled release date of February 20th.

Beg to differ, there...

http://shop.lego.com...?...cn=52&d=100

It's there and "Available Now" in US.

Although you are right about the Grand Emporium. Check out those zoomable pics!

-John

[fyparr]

I stand corrected. It is indeed under hard to find items (I looked in the exclusives category, where it was before).

I just got into the modular series and cannot believe the secondhand prices ($300+) of Cafe Corner, so I am happy to have purchased Green Grocer given its seemingly near fate. Eager to add the others.

This post has been edited by fyparr: 02 February 2010 - 07:27 AM

[TJJohn12]

fyparr, on Feb 2 2010, 01:00 AM, said:

I stand corrected. It is indeed under hard to find items (I looked in the exclusives category, where it was before).

I just got into the modular series and cannot believe the secondhand prices ($300+) of Cafe Corner, so I am happy to have purchased Green Grocer given its seemingly near fate. Eager to add the others.

Frankly, you're better off with Green Grocer. I own CC and it sits in a few pieces in a box gathering dust and being slowly cannibalized for parts. It just is TOO colorful and too hectic. GG has a much more realistic and much better unified color scheme than CC. The chief drawback with Green Grocer, as well as all of the more recent CC-standard buildings are the interiors driving up the price. Interiors aren't really necessary on these models, but I digress.

-John

[roamingstudio]

When I spoke with a nice lady at LS@H today, she said their systems currently list GG as available until the end of 2010. Fire Brigade is listed until the end of 2011. The Imperial Flagship is currently on Backorder, with a large batch due in March; It is scheduled to continue throughout 2010.. although getting scarcer.

Of course this is their systems. If everyone goes out to buy a GG thinking it will end because of new Emporiums, then perhaps it will become self fullfilling. Perhaps not. I suspect that the offline popularity of Market Street and Cafe Corners, especially on places like Ebay and BL where their price doubled because of limited availablity may mean that Lego are more pragmatic about GG. Of course this is pure speculation.

[Six Wide Bob]

roamingstudio, on Feb 4 2010, 05:12 PM, said:

When I spoke with a nice lady at LS@H today, she said their systems currently list GG as available until the end of 2010. Fire Brigade is listed until the end of 2011. The Imperial Flagship is currently on Backorder, with a large batch due in March; It is scheduled to continue throughout 2010.. although getting scarcer.

Of course this is their systems. If everyone goes out to buy a GG thinking it will end because of new Emporiums, then perhaps it will become self fullfilling. Perhaps not. I suspect that the offline popularity of Market Street and Cafe Corners, especially on places like Ebay and BL where their price doubled because of limited availablity may mean that Lego are more pragmatic about GG. Of course this is pure speculation.

Having said that, GG will always be worth AT LEAST the money spent on it - it's a FANTASTIC parts pack. I got mine just before Christmas having missed out on Cafe Corner. I just managed to get a Marker Street.

Yesterday I bought an extra Green Grocer which I intend to use sell at some point in the future to help aquire a Cafe Corner.

I can't see GG being IN PRODUCTION as well as FB and GM - if they could produce and stock 3 modulars simultaneously, I don't think that they would have deleted CC so suddenly.

[MAH4546]

Six Wide Bob, on Feb 4 2010, 06:35 PM, said:

Having said that, GG will always be worth AT LEAST the money spent on it - it's a FANTASTIC parts pack. I got mine just before Christmas having missed out on Cafe Corner. I just managed to get a Marker Street.

Yesterday I bought an extra Green Grocer which I intend to use sell at some point in the future to help aquire a Cafe Corner.

I can't see GG being IN PRODUCTION as well as FB and GM - if they could produce and stock 3 modulars simultaneously, I don't think that they would have deleted CC so suddenly.

Large sets like Green Grocer sell propoitionally better during the holidays, between October-December.

The key to these sets is to sell them for three holiday selling seasons. That is what was done with Cafe Corner, and that is what will be done with Green Grocer. It still has the rest of 2010 left, but expect it to dissapear right before Christmas.

Even if LEGO has ended production, they likely have significant stock to keep it through the year's end. These sets sell very slowly outside of the holidays.

[booga-b]

so sad that the cafe corner's sold out. Anyone out there seen it in the wild? Really wanna get it.