From: blank@nothing.com   
      
   Netrunner wrote:   
      
   > Stranger things have happened.  I'm pretty sure they would easily sell   
   > thousands of them if they just offered them.   
      
   The thing is... there are sites where you can buy any individual pieces.   
   Lego could do a kind of thing that was almost... Cafepress for Lego.   
   Someone sets up a profile for a model of something - maybe it's   
   something anyone could do, submit their own designs, as well as official   
   ones done by the Lego company - and then you go to the site and order it   
   and it's packed and shipped to you in a plain box with instructions   
   (designs would be submitted via something like one of the Lego CAD-type   
   programs you can get, from which the instructions would be derived).   
   Instructions wouldn't even have to be printed, the could be digital.   
      
   So basically you can do away with fancy packaging and toystore   
   distributuion, and it's all done on-demand, meaning something that might   
     not be feasible for the normal distribution method because it's a bit   
   niche would be viable   
      
   Of course, for something like the Spinner it'd have to be properly   
   licensed, a fan or the Lego company couldn't just start selling it.   
      
   LH   
      
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