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Gone Cardboard: Le Havre, Coming to the U.S. Courtesy of…
Lookout Games. Yes, the publisher that released both German and Australian English versions of Uwe Rosenberg’s most recent game will also be the publisher for the version to be sold in the U.S. later in 2009. According to Lookout’s Hanno Girke, “The first print run of (Australian) English Le Havre is sold out, but we’re re-printing at the moment. With Alliance as our U.S. distributor, we expect a nationwide distribution in FLGS.”
No word on when the game will be available and what the price will be. We’ll have to wait and see what the exchange rate was like at the time of printing. This game has been added to Gone Cardboard.
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Feb 20, 2009 at 11:30 PM in Game News, Game Announcements / 1233
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I’m honestly surprised to see that eventhough they also went with an English version from the get go (as opposed to Agricola’s release), it still took a loooong time to even hear that this was officially going to make it to the US. Based on Agricola’s succes and the original announcement that this was coming out in english too, I would have thought that it was going to make it to these shores from day one. Is the US market really that small? Or was it an issue of Lookout having a hard time finding a local distributor (or not having looked for one at all)? a problem of local distributiors in judging the potential success of this game? Posted by Robert Ramirez on Feb 21, 2009 at 12:08 PM | #
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On the Alliance Distributors web site, it has a MSRP of $70. Posted by Bobby Warren on Feb 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM | #
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I would put the length of time down to lookout formalizing ties with US distribution instead of US manufacturing. I think Lookout set a goal of trying to make more money from Le Havre in the USA than they did with Agricola, and by working directly with Alliance, they remove one company from the production chain. Or Z-man could have had the offer to do another co-production and turned it down. I’m not certain. Posted by Aaron Lawn on Feb 22, 2009 at 01:32 PM | #
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I’m quite sure Z-Man would have done it if he was offered it. Posted by Surya Van Lierde on Feb 24, 2009 at 04:19 AM | #
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I must admit that I *really* wish that companies would stop going exclusive with distributors.
Posted by Lee McLain on Feb 24, 2009 at 07:13 PM | #
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