Master Yoda, what do you mean by harming parallel markets such as eBay and BrickLink? I acquired all my Legends and re-releases off eBay much cheaper than I would have buying them from LEGO Direct. It seems Legends give more products for sellers to offer on these parellel markets, providing they know to sell them in such a way that makes them profit, which is usually what the sellers I buy from fail miserably at :-D
That's quite true! However the people on e-bay are now selling a Legend for maybe a fifth of what the original old set went for! Those on e-bay selling the older sets are effectively between a rock and a hard place, their set lost most of its value!