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[Zeya]

He mentioned legislation. I wonder if this has to do with the law here in the US where they have to print the number of pieces on the box. If it's not that, hopefully they can clarify what legislation is the problem, so I can track down who not to vote for this election season. (I'm 96% joking about that.)

[Blondie-Wan]

Zeya, on 02 October 2012 - 01:01 AM, said:

He mentioned legislation. I wonder if this has to do with the law here in the US where they have to print the number of pieces on the box. If it's not that, hopefully they can clarify what legislation is the problem, so I can track down who not to vote for this election season. (I'm 96% joking about that.)

Is that an issue? I'm aware the non-US packages don't generally include the piece counts, but the Minifigures also lack piece counts, even here (naturally, as the piece count for one of these sets will vary depending upon what specific figure it is). How could they do the Minifigures without piece counts while being unable to do grab bags?

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I must admit I'm disappointed. I never got a grab bag; I don't think I've ever seen one in a LEGO store to begin with. That might have something to do with the fact the one I get to visit most frequently is the Downtown Disney, Orlando one, which is always insanely crowded and anything "special" like that would probably get scooped up within moments of hitting a shelf, but I don't remember seeing any at the couple of other LEGO Stores I've ever been to, either. Oh, well.

[NiceMarmot]

Well, that's a bummer. I liked grab bags. Never knew what you were going to get, and sometimes you really got some great stuff, including pieces you never knew existed. One time I bought two or three bags that must have had most of a Town Hall display set in them. Just last week we got a grab bag with about half an Orc Forge set in it, including some orc minifigs!  Broken down display sets and returns were the best grab bags, but recently they seem to be mostly populated with leftovers from the PAB wall. Well, jeez, if I wanted stuff from the PAB wall, I'd have gotten a PAB cup.  That said though, grab bags in general were great, and probably the cheapest you can get LEGO outside of a garage sale. Grab bags, RIP.

[501st Commando]

That's sad to hear.    I loved buying grab bags, almost more than PaB. There were so many great finds, such as exclusive Lego Land Florida bricks and parts of the Tower Bridge. Even though I'll miss the grab bags I'm sure Lego will come up with another great idea that will get us AFOLs to spend our money.  

[TheWarden]

Sadness. I love grab bags.

I saw a grab bag with a neat windscreen in it once, but I couldn't place it. Turns out as I reasearched the next day, that it was a Millenium Falcom top part of the windscreen! I should have gone back and bought it, really...

Here's hoping they can come back in some form...

[Faefrost]

Did this also effect the sales of damaged or open box deals at the Lego stores? I just noticed my local store has done away with my beloved damaged box discount table

[The Blue Brick]

These will be missed by me also. They were such a bargain for me. I've gotten parts from Superhero sets, Grand Emporium, and the Maersk train. Also, most of the other bricks were of random, but such a good deal.
Hopefully, they will come up with a better solution that will still please us.

[Ludzik]

From what I hear (and partially see in the stores now) bigger pieces that would have made it to the grab bags end up on the "play table" and the smaller parts are supposed to be shipped back internally :(  This is really sad because grab bags for me were a great source of building material.  

I got plenty of car bottom pieces, cockpits, some minifigs (those were never supposed to be in grab bags, but through the years I got probably close to 200 minifigs), rollup doors and tracks, plenty various doors and windows, general building blocks, wheel wells, wing pieces (the angled plates) and part of a dinosaur ;)

[RaincloudDustbin]

I think it will be that a band-aid or plaster was found inside one of the bags...