xenologer Posted December 25, 2009 Posted December 25, 2009 I used to love LDD, but have been away from it for some months now. Upon revisiting I find that... everything costs 4 times as much as it used to. To the point that it is no longer practical to purchase designs. So, having been away, I guess a gradual set of updates seems rather abrubt to me... How has everyone else responded to it? Anyone still use it? Whens the last time you ever purchased a design? I have to wonder about the future of this product... I suspect the purchasing aspect of it is no longer popular, is it still profitable for TLC? Quote
AllanSmith Posted December 25, 2009 Posted December 25, 2009 I emailed them when the current version came out as all my designs had jumped up by $ NZ 15. LEGO said that they added that amount on to cover the box and instruction printing. Quote
DLuders Posted December 25, 2009 Posted December 25, 2009 I dowloaded a black "Custom Truck" from the LegoDesignByMe Gallery webpage http://designbyme.lego.com/en-us/gallery/d...|custom%20truck , and was shocked that it would have cost ~$174 US to get the parts for this model. So, I just ended up reverse-engineering the Building Instructions. I went page-by-page, wrote down a list of the needed parts, and ordered them from 4 different Bricklink stores. This was very time-consuming to do for a 700-piece model, but it saved me some money. I was able to buy all of the parts for about $80 US (which is more reasonable), and one can build the model by just looking at the step-by-step building instructions on a computer screen. Quote
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