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This may not be news to anyone, but it was news to me.
I just got an email back from LEGO-Direct saying the blue 32 x 32 baseplate,
though it says “Sold Out” on the S@H website, has been discontinued.
Though I should look out for other items that are similar, or maybe sometime in
the future it might come back with a different look!
BAH!
Bring it back LEGO! Please! How else are we to create the illusion of large
bodies of water?
Unless you intend for us to pay through the nose for blue plates to put on top
of other baseplates.
I realize that the blue 32x32 baseplate isn’t exactly a ‘power seller’, but I
mean, c’mon! It’s a staple! You need three colors of baseplates, grey for
industrial or rock, green for grass and blue for water! That’s just the way it
is! Everyone needs access to blue baseplates!
At least I think so...
I’d buy 1 or 5 if it was made available again...
Sigh...
--Anthony
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Anthony Sava wrote:
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This may not be news to anyone, but it was news to me.
I just got an email back from LEGO-Direct saying the blue 32 x 32 baseplate,
though it says “Sold Out” on the S@H website, has been discontinued.
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I realize that the blue 32x32 baseplate isn’t exactly a ‘power seller’, but I
mean, c’mon! It’s a staple! You need three colors of baseplates, grey for
industrial or rock, green for grass and blue for water! That’s just the way
it is! Everyone needs access to blue baseplates!
At least I think so...
I’d buy 1 or 5 if it was made available again...
Sigh...
--Anthony
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Hm...then how are they going to do that Doc Ock lab on the dock set? Didn’t the
picture show a lab built up on a dock on the water?
Maybe they aren’t selling it as an individual item anymore...
And would the baseplates be coming in the new gray or the old gray?
Scott Lyttle
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Scott Lyttle wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Anthony Sava wrote:
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This may not be news to anyone, but it was news to me.
I just got an email back from LEGO-Direct saying the blue 32 x 32 baseplate,
though it says “Sold Out” on the S@H website, has been discontinued.
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snip
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I realize that the blue 32x32 baseplate isn’t exactly a ‘power seller’, but
I mean, c’mon! It’s a staple! You need three colors of baseplates, grey
for industrial or rock, green for grass and blue for water! That’s just the
way it is! Everyone needs access to blue baseplates!
At least I think so...
I’d buy 1 or 5 if it was made available again...
Sigh...
--Anthony
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Hm...then how are they going to do that Doc Ock lab on the dock set? Didn’t
the picture show a lab built up on a dock on the water?
Maybe they aren’t selling it as an individual item anymore...
And would the baseplates be coming in the new gray or the old gray?
Scott Lyttle
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Probably the same way they are doing the new Pirate set, just a “play mat”.
At least that is my theory.
You know the company line... “it ain’t dead”.
(so you never really know for sure).
Ben M.
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Scott Lyttle wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Anthony Sava wrote:
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This may not be news to anyone, but it was news to me.
I just got an email back from LEGO-Direct saying the blue 32 x 32 baseplate,
though it says “Sold Out” on the S@H website, has been discontinued.
|
snip
| |
I realize that the blue 32x32 baseplate isn’t exactly a ‘power seller’, but
I mean, c’mon! It’s a staple! You need three colors of baseplates, grey
for industrial or rock, green for grass and blue for water! That’s just the
way it is! Everyone needs access to blue baseplates!
At least I think so...
I’d buy 1 or 5 if it was made available again...
Sigh...
--Anthony
|
Hm...then how are they going to do that Doc Ock lab on the dock set? Didn’t
the picture show a lab built up on a dock on the water?
Maybe they aren’t selling it as an individual item anymore...
And would the baseplates be coming in the new gray or the old gray?
Scott Lyttle
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Hi there,
I just got the new January - May catalogue her in Denmark. And set# 4856 Doc
Ock’s Hideout does indeed have a blue baseplate.
Kecia
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Anthony Sava wrote:
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This may not be news to anyone, but it was news to me.
I just got an email back from LEGO-Direct saying the blue 32 x 32 baseplate,
though it says “Sold Out” on the S@H website, has been discontinued.
Though I should look out for other items that are similar, or maybe sometime
in the future it might come back with a different look!
BAH!
Bring it back LEGO! Please! How else are we to create the illusion of large
bodies of water?
Unless you intend for us to pay through the nose for blue plates to put on
top of other baseplates.
I realize that the blue 32x32 baseplate isn’t exactly a ‘power seller’, but I
mean, c’mon! It’s a staple! You need three colors of baseplates, grey for
industrial or rock, green for grass and blue for water! That’s just the way
it is! Everyone needs access to blue baseplates!
At least I think so...
I’d buy 1 or 5 if it was made available again...
Sigh...
--Anthony
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ARRGH! I’ve needed several of these for months, and been waiting for them to
return to SAH, there are barely any on bricklink already. This is terrible. A
new look! Psssh!
-Daniel
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Anthony Sava wrote:
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This may not be news to anyone, but it was news to me.
I just got an email back from LEGO-Direct saying the blue 32 x 32 baseplate,
though it says “Sold Out” on the S@H website, has been discontinued.
Though I should look out for other items that are similar, or maybe sometime
in the future it might come back with a different look!
BAH!
Bring it back LEGO! Please! How else are we to create the illusion of large
bodies of water?
Unless you intend for us to pay through the nose for blue plates to put on
top of other baseplates.
I realize that the blue 32x32 baseplate isn’t exactly a ‘power seller’, but I
mean, c’mon! It’s a staple! You need three colors of baseplates, grey for
industrial or rock, green for grass and blue for water! That’s just the way
it is! Everyone needs access to blue baseplates!
At least I think so...
I’d buy 1 or 5 if it was made available again...
Sigh...
--Anthony
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It lends itself to a bigger problem with S@H: they continue to display things
that are sold out (discontinued)...while it’s noble of them to let us know that
there will be a restock, far too often they leave things up which they know have
been discontinued....it’s not unlike the infamous color change...they’re ****ing
with us, leading us on.
Sorry to be so cynical.
Play On!!!!
M
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Michael Harrod wrote:
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It lends itself to a bigger problem with S@H: they continue to display things
that are sold out (discontinued)...while it’s noble of them to let us know
that there will be a restock, far too often they leave things up which they
know have been discontinued....it’s not unlike the infamous color
change...they’re ****ing with us, leading us on.
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I think this happens because the item is NOT sold out all over the world.
Remember that by setting your shipping location, you get different Shop At Home
websites--North America, Europe, Australia, etc. They are NOT actually different
websites, however, just different text and data behind them.
Okay, that exlanation is a bit muddy.
What I mean to say is, just because Blue baseplates are sold out in USA shop at
Home warehouse does not mean they are sold out in other fullfillment center
warehouses in other parts of the world. So the item actually exists somewhere
and the listing on the website remains so they can sell the stock that is left.
Make sense?
Of course, the programming for the website could be better to disallow such
things to occur....
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Kevin Salm wrote:
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Michael Harrod wrote:
> >
> >
> > It lends itself to a bigger problem with S@H: they continue to display things
> > that are sold out (discontinued)...while it's noble of them to let us know
> > that there will be a restock, far too often they leave things up which they
> > know have been discontinued....it's not unlike the infamous color
> > change...they're ****ing with us, leading us on.
>
> I think this happens because the item is NOT sold out all over the world.
> Remember that by setting your shipping location, you get different Shop At Home
> websites--North America, Europe, Australia, etc. They are NOT actually different
> websites, however, just different text and data behind them.
>
> Okay, that exlanation is a bit muddy.
>
> What I mean to say is, just because Blue baseplates are sold out in USA shop at
> Home warehouse does not mean they are sold out in other fullfillment center
> warehouses in other parts of the world. So the item actually exists somewhere
> and the listing on the website remains so they can sell the stock that is left.
> Make sense?
No, because...
> Of course, the programming for the website could be better to disallow such
> things to occur....
...it does. There are many Europe-only sets that will not show up when you choose
the US as your country - you'll get Not Available.
So if they are pretty much permanently out of stock of something for the US, they
CAN blank it from displaying.
Example:
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=7044 - available in the US
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=2585 - USED TO BE available in the US.
--
Tom Stangl
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Yes, the 32X32 blue as a single item has been discontinued for a while now. The
glimmer of hope is that Pitsco Dacta still sells a pack of baseplates (4 or 5 I
think) that includes the 32X32 blue. You have to buy large gray and regular
green with it, but they're useful anyway. There's also that playtable at Sam's
Club for $150 that includes a 48X48 blue baseplate.
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