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Posted by Chris Daley
on 11/4/2009, 9:48 pm, in reply to "Re: An alternative view"
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My understanding was that the Dragon models sold very poorly. They were comissioned by the cruise line which did offer them on board but at 2 or 3 times the list price of $39.95. They didn't sell well on board so Carnival dropped them and didn't take up the option of doing the sister ships.
The primary consideration for on board sales is profit cubic foot of space because storage space is limited. The ceramic model Thad showed probably makes them more money than the Dragon model did because they paid next to nothing for it in bulk and if that is the case and it sells out then Carnival sees no reason to pursue more expensive but accurate models.
Because the first two models flopped Dragon pulled out of the ship model market. I saw at their US distributor the pre-production model of the USS Arizona but it never went into production due to the lack of sales of the cruise ships. In fact last time I checked Dragon still had the cruise ships in stock at the distributor level. That is a disaster considering those models came out years ago.
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