Technic Product Range 2015-2017

[bitbamboo]

Hi

As I am a visual person I put together this image. Prices are in euros and images are not at scale. If you spot any error just say it, please

At a first glance, I am frankly surprised to see so little "old" yelow, red and blue around.

The main motivation was the people complaining in the 2017 thread about a dissapointing year for Technic and I wanted to see the full picture.

I had the feeling that there were less sets at the mid-range price, but it is not the case. I think that people just dislike each of this year's sets over 80 € because looking twice, the overall offer looks good. 

A point I dislike is that we are getting more sets in the expensive side than before

[Ngoc Nguyen]

The 42069 Extreme Adventure is 129.99 Eur, so it should be in a lower tier.

[Vectormatic]

I think your 50 category is waaay too wide, the yellow dump truck was €26 over here IIRC, 42036 €40, 42037 €55, as was the fire plane.

Looking at the pic, two of this years mid range sets are really similar, one is a reach-loader, the other is a slightly smaller reach-loader with a container truck.. I might be alone in this, but i really dislike compound sets, id much rather have one big vehicle/machine then two smaller ones, as you really lose a lot of complexcity.

And if you group the 50 and 80 categories as mid range, we've gone from 6 very distinct varied sets, to 4, two of which cover very similar subjects, and one of which is just a PF parts pack with no mechanical complexity.

 

Also, 42000 and 42039 getting a (poorly proportioned) jet as a succesor kind of saddens me

[suffocation]

Several prices look off - the Porsche's RRP, for instance, was €300. Same goes for the Arocs, the Volvo, the BWE, the Claas and the ship.

[Cwetqo]

Shown are upper limits of price ranges. Porsche is in price range with prices from 250 to 400 euro.

[Nequmodiva]

Nice graphic, but as others mentioned the prices ranges are bit misleading as there's a big difference inside the groups, and between sets in groups next to each other sometimes a much smaller difference. Maybe you could make a continuous scale for price and place every set on the exact high? But sure it already shows that we are not getting less this year.

[suffocation]

  On 2/2/2017 at 1:59 PM, Cwetqo said:

Shown are upper limits of price ranges. Porsche is in price range with prices from 250 to 400 euro.

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What's the point of putting €400 if the RRP is €300 and most shops sell it for less? Incidentally, there are plenty of chances to get it for 1/3 off.