Woohoo! New better sets released!

medib · Post by **medib** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 2:39 pm

I still think they are going to sell each for $30 Canadian or
both for $40 Canadian , if they reach the North American market.

But that's just my opinion.

Benjamin Medinets

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:08 pm

I agree partially with Mr. Medinets,

I think the individual sets will be $30.00 - $40.00, but I think the combo will be $50.00 - $60.00.

Canadian pricing on S@H is about 10-15% higher than the exchange rate would be. For example a bulk pack of assprted light grey bricks is $4.99 USD, Canadian Pricing is $6.99 CAD and the current exchange rate of 1.32 make sout to about $6.58 CAD. I know my last bulk brick order was more expensive than it would have been if prices had been in USD. Since bulk brick and Legends are all I use S@H for, I didn't favor the currency change.

So back to the topic, if prices are $20.00 Euro individually, and the Euro is about 2.2 CAD Prices could be considerably higher. $45.00 CAD a piece would not surprise me. Some of the old $29.99 sets are now $34.99 on store shelves. Hopefully they don't go this route, but my hopes aren't high.

Will

litenDavid · Post by **litenDavid** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:52 pm

Thanx for the heads up! This combined set will now invade my postbox in a few days.

The price is really good (especially when compared to the other KKII price tags), kind of makes you wonder what the catch is...

kajo163 · Post by **kajo163** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:34 am

Maybe they are really in microscale:D

Lord Resta · Post by **Lord Resta** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 2:58 pm

These are really good. Now, you only have to buy the small set (Vladek encounter) to get all the knights (red, black, green, blue, purple) and that's great.

The Seige Tower: Very nice. It's really sturdy and has the golden dragon headpiece. The figs are good, also, with the Shadow Knight and Vladek himself. Lots of dark red. Not much else to add!

The wall:Nice black doors, some rareish parts (black couldron, black goblets, Blue and Green knights) so that's good. The drawbridge on the srige tower lands on the correct hight for the wall. There is also a now small dish in gold. I hope to have pictures of the knights in a setting of outer space soon, as the Super Star Rangers battling 3vil agents. Well, good luck.

footsteps · Post by **footsteps** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:34 pm

wlister wrote:So back to the topic, if prices are $20.00 Euro individually, and the Euro is about 2.2 CAD Prices could be considerably higher. $45.00 CAD a piece would not surprise me. Some of the old $29.99 sets are now $34.99 on store shelves. Hopefully they don't go this route, but my hopes aren't high.
Will

Go to http://www.royalbank.com/cgi-bin/travel/fxconvert.pl and you'll find that the C$/Euro exchange is at its worst at about 1.62, not the 2.2 you mentioned, so the C$ price for a Euro 20 set would be in the C$33 range.

Alan

Lord Resta · Post by **Lord Resta** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:24 pm

LEGO has to be solid with their pricing, so they can't change with the xchange rates. Maybe the price lego is stuck at is closer to 2.2 than 1.62?

Post by **Formendacil** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:25 pm

footsteps wrote:
wlister wrote:So back to the topic, if prices are $20.00 Euro individually, and the Euro is about 2.2 CAD Prices could be considerably higher. $45.00 CAD a piece would not surprise me. Some of the old $29.99 sets are now $34.99 on store shelves. Hopefully they don't go this route, but my hopes aren't high.
Will
Go to http://www.royalbank.com/cgi-bin/travel/fxconvert.pl and you'll find that the C$/Euro exchange is at its worst at about 1.62, not the 2.2 you mentioned, so the C$ price for a Euro 20 set would be in the C$33 range.

Alan

That'c converting it dollar for dollar, with no change in price, but what guarantee do we have that they won't?

I hope they don't, but do they change the prices? (Changing means boosting them, of course.)

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:18 pm

footsteps wrote: Go to http://www.royalbank.com/cgi-bin/travel/fxconvert.pl and you'll find that the C$/Euro exchange is at its worst at about 1.62, not the 2.2 you mentioned, so the C$ price for a Euro 20 set would be in the C$33 range.

Alan

I realize my mistake now, I was using an older conversion rate for Pound Sterling, not Euro.

Will

footsteps · Post by **footsteps** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:47 pm

footsteps wrote:Go to http://www.royalbank.com/cgi-bin/travel/fxconvert.pl and you'll find that the C$/Euro exchange is at its worst at about 1.62, not the 2.2 you mentioned, so the C$ price for a Euro 20 set would be in the C$33 range.
Alan

Just had another thought. The prices we've seen are European prices for people in Europe. That should mean that the price already includes VAT (~25%), which is always included in retail pricing (i.e. it isn't added at the checkout**) in Europe. That opens the possibility that the C$ retail price will be even lower, as our taxes (GST 7%; ON PST 8%) aren't added until checkout time. Well, here's hoping

Alan

** I've noticed that European BL sellers advertise pre-VAT prices, probably in recognition that most buyers will be outside Europe (no VAT charged) and they want their pricing to be enticing to as many people as possible. It's probably easier to explain to European buyers the addition of VAT than to explain to non-Europeans a discount from high-ish advertised prices.