Lego Legends

[Joe H]

Hi,

New to the forums here (as you can tell by my post count!), and I was wondering - anyone know what happened to the Lego Legends sets - as in, are there any plans in continuing the line, or was it said at some point that it was done? Haven't seen any recent ones, which made me wonder.

Thanks!

[CP5670]

The last Legends came out in 2004 and the line was dropped after that, seemingly due to poor sales. The Legends were a casualty of the gray color change that year, as the new colors made the sets much less attractive to their main target market. This is probably why the 2004 Legends were selling at discounts in the Lego catalogs a few years later, and you still see big price differences between the 2001-2003 Legends and the 2004 Legends on ebay and BL.

[Reaper052]

This has been discussed before and I think the general opinion is that the line is dead and will not be coming back anytime soon. I would suggest using the search function if you want to find the old topics and see what was said.

Reaper052 :skull:

[Tom Bricks]

I personally would love to se the line come back, but the closest things we have now are the vintage minifig packs.

[Joe H]

This has been discussed before and I think the general opinion is that the line is dead and will not be coming back anytime soon. I would suggest using the search function if you want to find the old topics and see what was said.

Reaper052 :skull:

Yes, I'm familiar with using Forums, and did just that. Sorry, but I must've missed the threads if there were any.

Thanks for the answers everyone, makes sense now.

[avoidz]

Yes, I'm familiar with using Forums, and did just that. Sorry, but I must've missed the threads if there were any.

Thanks for the answers everyone, makes sense now.

Any chance of posting the link to the previous discussion? Would save me and maybe others searching for it. Cheers :)

[salty tbone]

The last Legends came out in 2004 and the line was dropped after that, seemingly due to poor sales. The Legends were a casualty of the gray color change that year, as the new colors made the sets much less attractive to their main target market. This is probably why the 2004 Legends were selling at discounts in the Lego catalogs a few years later, and you still see big price differences between the 2001-2003 Legends and the 2004 Legends on ebay and BL.

According to Lugnet and Peeron, the only Legend set released in 2004 and had the new gray was the 10151 Hot Rod. Am I overlooking something? That one set couldn't have killed the line, could it?

Edited August 10, 2009 by salty tbone

[Nikola Bathory]

This has been discussed before and I think the general opinion is that the line is dead and will not be coming back anytime soon.

Not a big loss in my opinion, but still a bit sad.

[CP5670]

According to Lugnet and Peeron, the only Legend set released in 2004 and had the new gray was the 10151 Hot Rod. Am I overlooking something? That one set couldn't have killed the line, could it?

That was the only one with the grayscale box art, but there was also 10159 (re-release of 6597 Century Skyway) and 10156 (of 2148 Lego Truck). 10159 is the best example of this, as the original is a highly regarded classic that routinely goes for $250+ MISB on ebay, but in late 2006 it was still in the catalogs at marked down prices, so they were evidently having trouble selling it. You can also see big differences in the ebay and Bricklink prices of this set and something like 10001, released in the old gray period.