Comments on: Track hunting http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:02:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: ChrisGoodall http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3290 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:19:11 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3290 I bought one yesterday. I was putting it together last night (after putting both kids to bed) when my wife came home. I told her that Dan said I had to buy it. Apparently, that was enough. Also, it's even better that I was expecting. I bought one yesterday. I was putting it together last night (after putting both kids to bed) when my wife came home. I told her that Dan said I had to buy it. Apparently, that was enough.

Also, it's even better that I was expecting.

]]> by: Itsacon http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3239 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:51:58 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3239 Just one question: How do you explain these expenses to your SO? I'm still having a hard time doing that... Hey honey, I just spend another 100 bucks on "kids' toys"! Just one question: How do you explain these expenses to your SO? I'm still having a hard time doing that...

Hey honey, I just spend another 100 bucks on "kids' toys"!

]]> by: rndmnmbr http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3236 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:39:28 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3236 I'm still waiting for the company that'll just let me have a one-gallon scoop of random Technic parts from a mixed-Technic-part bin. Seriously, let me have a gallon-sized scoop for $50 USD, and I'll blow every cent I can lay my grubby paws on in your store. I'm still waiting for the company that'll just let me have a one-gallon scoop of random Technic parts from a mixed-Technic-part bin. Seriously, let me have a gallon-sized scoop for $50 USD, and I'll blow every cent I can lay my grubby paws on in your store.

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3229 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:44 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3229 Lego actually do have a "<a href="http://us.factory.lego.com/pab/?warning=false">Pick A Brick</a>" section on their shopping site, which lets you buy bags of just one kind of brick. The lineup is relatively small, though, and doesn't currently include track pieces. There's also the <a href="http://shop.lego.com/Product/Factory/Default.aspx?cn=364">Lego Factory</a>, which lets you use software to design a model and then hve the parts sent to you. I don't know whether track parts are available there, but I'm pretty sure the price-per-piece of your "model" that's just a pile of ten thousand track pieces wouldn't be very exciting. Lego actually do have a "Pick A Brick" section on their shopping site, which lets you buy bags of just one kind of brick. The lineup is relatively small, though, and doesn't currently include track pieces.

There's also the Lego Factory, which lets you use software to design a model and then hve the parts sent to you. I don't know whether track parts are available there, but I'm pretty sure the price-per-piece of your "model" that's just a pile of ten thousand track pieces wouldn't be very exciting.

]]> by: phisrow http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3228 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:53:46 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/10/06/track-hunting/#comment-3228 Since lego bricks are manufactured on a high volume injection molding process, and most parts would be difficult or impossible to duplicate in the right material with the right quality by any of the trendy new "rapid fab" methods, Lego obviously can't offer individual purpose of just any part from their catalog. I wonder how large an order would have to be to motivate them to fab a specific part specially, and how much one would pay for that(or if they wouldn't do it at all, in an attempt to drive sales of the other parts in kits that contain a particular scarce and desireable piece)? If a group of lego enthusiasts, or one fanatic, wanted 10,000 of a part, would they run it? 100,000? Since lego bricks are manufactured on a high volume injection molding process, and most parts would be difficult or impossible to duplicate in the right material with the right quality by any of the trendy new "rapid fab" methods, Lego obviously can't offer individual purpose of just any part from their catalog.
I wonder how large an order would have to be to motivate them to fab a specific part specially, and how much one would pay for that(or if they wouldn't do it at all, in an attempt to drive sales of the other parts in kits that contain a particular scarce and desireable piece)?

If a group of lego enthusiasts, or one fanatic, wanted 10,000 of a part, would they run it? 100,000?

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