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Re: Color Change - Final Update
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Wed, 5 May 2004 19:48:34 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz wrote:
> > I would like to see TLC issue a bulk tub which contains a good assortment
> > (not a tub of 1x1s like 4407 is) of bricks, plates, slopes, in the new
> > colors.  I don't know how well these would sell on the shelf at Target,
> > probably not well at all.  If they were augmented with some castle walls,
> > turets, and some castle figs, they could be marketed as a Castle "Designer
> > Set".  For those of us who are not castle people, we could still get a good
> > quantity of bricks and plates and probably find "homes" for the other stuff
> > we didn't want.
> > 
> > So I am asking TLC to help me make lemonade out of what is now a small
> > basket of lemons.  If you want me to embrace the new colors, make them
> > readily available in a broad palette of elements and I'll get on board. If
> > I need to part sets out to get them, then it will be years before I have a
> > suitable supply to build with.
> 
> This is definitely true. If I could buy tubs with a wide variety of parts in
> the new colors at 5 cents a brick or less (at least 75% greys and brown, but
> hey, if you want to throw in some of the other colors, that would be cool
> also), I would buy a  bunch of those right off the bat to be able to create
> decent constructions in the new colors. Heck, price them right, and I might
> acquire more brick in these colors than I have in the old colors.
> 
> Frank

I'll add my voice in with Frank and Mike on this one. The bulk tubs in the new
color (as some suggest, maybe even with Castle-specific parts) would be an
excellent way to get the new colors into circulation. Maybe as a S@H exclusive
or something. I'm not a castle builder, but I wouldn't turn down all the nifty
castle pieces if I got them with a bunch of other useful pieces in the same
color themes. Bulk is bulk, and bulk is good.

- Kelly



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Color Change - Final Update
 
(...) Adding my voice to this, a new bulk castle tub would be fantastic. Bulk as in 3 cents per part, or lower mind you. Also, if adding the cost of the tub made the set prohibitive, I still think it would sell if packaged otherwise. Those tubs are (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
  Re: Color Change - Final Update
 
(...) Yes! The 6 packs that were done for us recently used up 6 SKUs. We've been told in the past that there's an SKU shortage. Bulk tubs use up a LOT less SKUs than their equivalent in service packs, ne? Run off 2 or 3 bulk tubs with a decent (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)

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  Re: Color Change - Final Update
 
(...) track (...) Hmm, BURPS. Actually, I think you could almost get away with the rectangular ones. The triangular ones aren't that useful in bulk. I did use a bunch in my cliff scene, but only because I wanted to conserve rectangular BURPS. If I (...) (22 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

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