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A: that is from a creator bucket. b: havent found one yet unfortunatly...

i understand that we are not the only country to be getting ripped off. but that dosent excuse TLC.. i am just saying we should all be getting the same prices..(the good prices) and the same treatment and services... Thow it must feel even worse if you are from the lego country and have lego problems... :-/

(sorry to double post) well the answer i got from TLC didnt really answer my questions.. so i replied with this: The terrible prices i mentioned in my previous email are not the prices of any given store or kiosk.They are the prices of Lego-Greece.This are the prices of the lego catalog in Greece.So they are official company prices and not random retail market prices. let me give you another example set no 4953- 19.99 euro for Germany 24.99 for Greece set no 7784- 94.99 euro for Germany 119.99 for Greece set no 7659- 64.99 euro for Germany 79.99 for Greece and ofcourse there are many more examples i could mention. The prices at most stores are even higher than the catalog-official ones. I understand you are not to blame for the store prices. But the prices in the catalog are lego official ones and somebody should really tell us what is wrong with your Greek market. Wages in Greece are some of the lowest in the EU, and those of Germany are trully high.So how do you decide on what everything will cost for every country? If Lego whants to increase its sales in Greece they should show more respect to the customers and handle their prices better. Unless you dont care about the Greek market because you sell so few sets here compared to other countries and in order to make a profit you have to have such high prices. Even if this is the story you should open the S@H market to everyone so that those of us who love lego could continue on with our hobby. I have another question for you. How do you decide which sets are sent to which country.. We got the batman sets this year but there are two sets missing from the catalog.The batcave and the set with cat-woman..Why are these sets NOT coming to Greece?Who decides for this? i wonder what their answer will be... 8-|

all bionicle looks the same to me :-P

you are right on that one. the more i see the castle images the more i like them!! the more i see the space images the more i hate them!!

thanks for the link! well everything is not really here..i dont see city or creator :-(

could i hate the US more? >:-( i say us europians send as many angry emails as we can to TLC if c3po is only for the US.. ;-)

thank you for another great review hinckley! i always enjoy them and im looking forward for your new one.. im not really sure about this set... i am deffinetly not getting it for many reasons its too ecxpensive its not coming to Greece this year im not really into this theme but still i feel there is something missing from the set.. maby its because i dont really like this creature i would rather they had the crab in this set...and not the squid.. it just dosent look very good to me. its like "invasion of the alien transparent man-eating squid" *wacko* the base looks very nice to me..thow i would apretiate more space on the inside.. this set would fit very nicely with the shipreck one... imagine the shipreck outhere!that would give them a reason to go out of the base and be eaten by the squid :-P

the first set that comes to mind is the new airplane... that in my book is a lot more <insert that tiresome argument> that any other lego airplane.. the word "<insert that tiresome argument>" for me also means a set with a lot of "special" big pieces that cant be used for anything else but for the reason they are made for.. like the new duplo pitares..the whole boat is only made with a very few pieces and almost all of them are designed only for that reason.. and no i am not saying that a lego horse or a lego system boat is <insert that tiresome argument> but the cockpit of the new airplane is..

i was hoping for new city pictures and pictures of the 10182-corner cafe set :-( maybe they will turn up..

well then i think its going to be 140 for Greece!! :-X

thank you for your sympathy :'-) do you mean if there are any other good selling brick build brands? well there are megablocks but the sell terribly the bad think is that these are the official greek prices and not some stores bad pricing. and not all the sets make it here.. a lot of them arent even mentioned bionicle and star-wars seem to be very popular and so not all city sets make it here (like the new hospital) and if you can find a set in some small store the price will be huge (airport-140 euro) i tried to go through bricklink as many of you sugested but it looks like absolute chaos to me i cant find my way in all those stores and pages!! can any of you sugest a few good sellers?

8 pages of chating in one day? more than 3000 hits on this theme! WOW!!! this set is truly amazing but SO SO SO SO ecxpensive... :-X

no it really dosent.. because these prices are also in the Greek lego catalog so its not a metter of retail shop but the whole greek lego company branch (whatever its called) and they have been promising to ecxpand the S@H for almost 2 years now... so its just a standar reply....

so i got an answer from TLC on my prices question and complain this is the first time it took them so long to answer an email!! and this is what they say: Dear Mr ...... Thank you for getting in touch with us and so carefully and precisely letting us know the situation in Greece. I am really sorry to know about such speculation of prices and I can understand your frustration but the prices through the Shop At Home Service and our Web site are determined by suggested retail prices, plus a shipping & handling fee for consumer convenience. As you have experienced, actual retail prices are dependent on the market such as where you shop, or seasonal sales. At any time, you may find LEGO toys in local stores or kiosks at prices higher or lower than the suggested retail. The prices charged at the retail level are at the discretion of the retail store or kiosk and we do not compete with those prices. We hope to be able to ship to Greece soon as we are actively working to expand and include more countries soon. Best regards, Eduardo Barbosa LEGO Direct

actually this has already been posted http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/eurofo...?showtopic=8040

If you live in the US my friend you dont know what "expensive lego" means.. and yes lego has always been expensive but im just comparing the prices from my country to others. Im not saying 32 euro is too much for the batmobile (price for germany)...im saying 55 is (price for Greece) people in the US pay 30 dollars for this set..how would you feel if you had to pay 60?

i think you are right sne about lack of demand.. i heard that lego in Greece sells about 5% of the whole German market... Its just that wages in Greece are really low compared to other european countries.. so Lego is not really affortable by everyone.. and as it dosent sell all that well the prices get higher and so on.. i just hope there was a way to buy Lego directly from TLC like in other countries (today i went to a store that has the kids lego-wear.They had the new airport for 140 euro!!!! :-X )

i think ebay is starting to seem really appealing.. i used it a few times for old sets but i guess i should start using it for new ones

there is no S@H for Greece.. :'-( >:-( these prices i think are the same for the whole country..not only for one shop the same prices are usually in the catalog...

so the new sets began to arrive today at my local toy store and while i was happy the new sets were finally here i couldnt help but notice...THE PRICES! we are really getting ripped off over here! some of these prices are unbeilivible! 55 euro for the hovercraft when its only 32 euro for germany 75 euro for the fire station when on S@H its 60-65 for most countries 55 euro for the batmobile with two-face when in germany its 33 14 euro for the new yellow creator car when its 10 euro for everyone else 8 euro for the small creator sets when its only 5 for everyone else 13 for the off-road fire resque when it is 10 125 euro for the UC batmobile when its 95 for Germany *sing* im really kind of mad right now...i got the creator car and the fire off-road resque and paid 27 euro when in every other country you would give about 20 >:-( ( i just copy pasted this page and sent it to TLC..cant wait to here an answer on these prices)

found pictures of the new dacta sets for 2007 on brickset and i must say they look pretty good!! town developers set .contains 1860 pieces! micro building set. contains 1641 pieces there are also many duplo sets like this hospital this shows that lego can actually make a decent hospital!! if only they could do this for city.. more sets can be found here http://brickset.com/search.aspx?show=New

well they also made a hair piece just for Ermione from HP.. but lets hope this comes in other sets cause this set is one i am deffinetly not getting!

like they do with the new city cars and trucks...no door? no problem! but still at list they dont just give you one that dosent open to use for your truck!...they just forget to put one.. ;-) now they are giving us a door that dosent work! *wacko* its a shame really...otherwise that set looks very nicely done... great dark blue roof and light blue windows!!! *wub*

new pricess comes with a new(?) hair piece! (thank you for the new info sam!!!)