tigarooni

I'm sorry if any of this has been mentioned on this thread but a mate suggested I post this here.. Here's my point of view on the whole Porsche debacle..: Due to lego's consistent build towards higher and bigger licensing in their products, they are coming out to "quietly" tailor to the AFOL market. This includes thought out lines towards a heavier, more collector based, more disposable income based market. And this in turn, goes some of the way to hike up their prices. so in some respects, it's good, for exclusive parts, designs and presentation. One of the dilemmas, as far as a company like Lego is concerned, the still keeping the interest from it's prior market and the emerging one brought around through Said new models. On one hand, they raise profits from, car lovers, lego/collectible item owners, lovers/supporters of Porsche and other high end car companies. This allows them to expand their reach into known, semi know and unknown marketplaces at the same time, all the while releasing one model for a limited time, as the beginning of a new licence spout of "super cars". Quote: "From our very first meeting it was clear that Porsche shared the same passion for the vision of this concept and together we decided upon using the current 911 GT3 RS as the first vehicle in this LEGO Technic series." They don't to things in half, learnt some lessons from licensing success and failures in the past and are now reaching into the AFOL market directly by producing the next step of co-evolved builds, and heading boldly into clearly understood places. The one main issue this presents, is it starts to pull the focal point from amazing, price accessible builds. So Lego in these respects has to hold a fine balance between great cheap builds vs. price point excessive super dooper lush builds, so to give fans personal enjoyment in all builds to keep them, as they release more surreal and intricate builds. The understanding of markets in this instance, must be huge. Research at a premium and many years of compiled data. This leaves me to wonder how they will continue to unveil new streams of products to new markets and what product to release next, considering the level of awesome this model is and how the lego inclusive community sees it's pros and cons, so to speak. I'm devastated about the price but knew as soon as I saw the initial pics and knowing Porsche's attention to detail vs. them considering to let another company represent them, it was gonna have a hefty price tag.. So all in all, looks to be an incredible build, new bits, presentation and all, though I'm sad to say it won't see it reach my brick lab any time soon if ever.