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A couple of weeks ago I was watching an auction on eBay. There was no
pictures, just a description.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1631985687
From the description I thought it might be worth taking a shot on it
thinking the statment "Has the rail station and the crane to lift cars and
other things onto the train. The crane comes with an extra train car. " so
it might be a 4555. I forgot about the auction but I had put it in my watch
list. Seeing that it closed without any bids I contacted the seller and
asked about a direct sale. Seller said, sure, meet my opening bid. I
figured why not, every once in a while a gamble is worth taking.
Well today my box showed up.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70794
Right on the top you can see the train platforms and in it were lots of
yellow pieces. Hmm - MetroStation? Some more digging around, hmmm ... more
goodies. So I started a real quick rough sort of things I recognized.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70795
Parts from 4555, 4554, 4552, 4549, 4532, and 4564!
After the kids went to bed tonight I set it all out on the floor to see what
I really had. The box had no instructions with it which exactly what I had
expected. I had contacted the seller when the auction was running to get a
list of set numbers. Seller stated - "no boxes, no instructions, no idea as
to which sets they are".
Fortunately I have instructions for all of the sets that appeared to be in
the box. So I spent the evening building.
Here is what I ended up with:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=70796
4554 MetroStation - mostly complete, missing lamp posts, one sign and one
minifig.
4552 Cargo Crane - missing the small tool car (the one w/ small train
wheels)
4549 Road 'N Rail Hauler - missing four 1x2 red tiles (which oddly enough I
don't have any of)
4544 Car Transport Wagon - missing the white car
4555 Freight Loading Station - missing the building
4564 Freight Rail Runner - missing the truck
4539 Level Crossing (#1) - complete
4539 Level Crossing (#2) - missing the tower
6514 Trail Ranger - complete
6562 Gas Stop Shop - missing the tanker truck
All in all, a pretty good haul for $100. ;-)
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
http://www.nclug.net/ctb - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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Nice gamble/haul Mike.
Obviously a risk worth taking, Milissa would say no, too risky.
Enjoy! :-)
Thanx,
Mark Millère
LUGnet # 525
Visit Milissa's LEGO store, Millère's Spares
<http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?i=MMillere>
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> later. And certainly, LEGO addiction is a lot less harmful than alcohol
> addiction! (IMHO!)
Not really, you can still get killed if you're building and
driving.....
:-)
Matthias Jetleb
VA3-MWJ
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Way to go, Shiri!
This sort of realistic, creative feedback is exactly what LEGO needs to
hear. Because of the way this story came about, it shows a real-world
example of the feelings folks have for their LEGO toys. I think you should
print this out as a letter and mail it on to TLC also.
Matt
In lugnet.lego.direct, Shiri Dori writes:
> I think I'll take you up on that, right now actually. ;-)
>
> (I am not expecting a reply from anyone, so this fits in dear-lego, but I
> still hope someone will be listening. Anyway, FUTs to dear-lego.)
>
> Dear LEGO, and dear LEGO Direct reps.:
>
> To introduce myself, my name is Shiri Dori, and I am almost 17. I have
> always loved LEGO, as far as I can remember myself. At various points of my
> life I played with it less, or was ashamed to admit my hobby, but I never
> really put it aside or sold it.
>
> Right now I am active in lugnet and the LEGO community (as you may or may
> not know). I have heard about many people's experiences, how they got into
> lego, how they got out of LEGO, and how they got in again.
>
> In the past week or so I've been advertising around my high-school, in
> Newton, Mass, offering to buy used LEGO. I put up ads asking for LEGO, and also
> asked anyone in my classes, my teachers, all the people I know, and anyone I
> happened to see during my free classes and lunch, if they were interested in
> selling LEGO to me. I must've talked to anywhere from 150 to 200 kids. I
> handed out my phone number to at least 30-40 people, etc., and asked my
> friends to tell their friends. A *lot* of people said they have too much
> sentimental value, others said they have little siblings, or they moved and
> left the LEGO behind, or gave it away... you get the picture.
>
> But an absolutely overwhelming amount of people said they still play with
> them... I estimate that about a quarter to a fifth of the people I asked
> said that either they, or their teenage/adult children, still actively
> played with LEGO or where "obssessed" with LEGO. I was really amazed by how
> many teenagers (these are kids about 14-18) said that they *love* their LEGO
> and still play with it.
>
> My theory is - the LEGO Company doesn't take care of its audience as they
> grow up. TLC would be well off to stop putting ages on the boxes,
> *especially* cutting off the boxes at twelve. Kids get the "aren't you too
> old?" comment once they pass 12 and so TLC loses its chance to keep an
> audience that would,
> oncreasingly, be able to pay for sets from their own pocket. Instead of
> pampering these kids with bigger, more challanging sets, that aren't limited
> in age (1), or rather are *targeted and marketed towards* early teens. If
> they create a market image that LEGO is cool - that LEGO isn't just for
> "kids" - people will be a lot more inclined, and less ashamed, to continue
> their childhood hobby. The teens who just now start making their own money
> can start buying things on their own... and as time goes by they will be
> able to afford more and more sets, letting the hobby become an addiction,
> and that can only be a good thing for the company...
>
> All I can thing of is the Driver's Ed. video I just watched the other night
> - talking about how alcohol and beer companies create a popular image for
> their drinks, that attracts young or heavy users. The video also showed how
> they rely on heavy drinkers for most of their income (one of the factoids
> was: 10% of the drinkers purchase about 50% of the alcohol manufactured in
> the U.S.). Not to bash anyone at all here, I'm just suggesting that by
> encouraging heavy buyers you will increase your profit much more than by
> trying to recruit more customers and then sending them away, a few years
> later. And certainly, LEGO addiction is a lot less harmful than alcohol
> addiction! (IMHO!)
>
> These are obviously simply suggestions. But I think they would benefit your
> company, and many individuals who lose out on the fun.
>
> Good luck,
> -Shiri
>
> P.S. a lot of this is c&p'd and edited from my post:
> http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=30506
>
> (1) The 6-99 age "restriction" on the HP computer game is a good start, I'll
> say. But definitely *just* a start.
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I think I'll take you up on that, right now actually. ;-)
(I am not expecting a reply from anyone, so this fits in dear-lego, but I
still hope someone will be listening. Anyway, FUTs to dear-lego.)
Dear LEGO, and dear LEGO Direct reps.:
To introduce myself, my name is Shiri Dori, and I am almost 17. I have
always loved LEGO, as far as I can remember myself. At various points of my
life I played with it less, or was ashamed to admit my hobby, but I never
really put it aside or sold it.
Right now I am active in lugnet and the LEGO community (as you may or may
not know). I have heard about many people's experiences, how they got into
lego, how they got out of LEGO, and how they got in again.
In the past week or so I've been advertising around my high-school, in
Newton, Mass, offering to buy used LEGO. I put up ads asking for LEGO, and also
asked anyone in my classes, my teachers, all the people I know, and anyone I
happened to see during my free classes and lunch, if they were interested in
selling LEGO to me. I must've talked to anywhere from 150 to 200 kids. I
handed out my phone number to at least 30-40 people, etc., and asked my
friends to tell their friends. A *lot* of people said they have too much
sentimental value, others said they have little siblings, or they moved and
left the LEGO behind, or gave it away... you get the picture.
But an absolutely overwhelming amount of people said they still play with
them... I estimate that about a quarter to a fifth of the people I asked
said that either they, or their teenage/adult children, still actively
played with LEGO or where "obssessed" with LEGO. I was really amazed by how
many teenagers (these are kids about 14-18) said that they *love* their LEGO
and still play with it.
My theory is - the LEGO Company doesn't take care of its audience as they
grow up. TLC would be well off to stop putting ages on the boxes,
*especially* cutting off the boxes at twelve. Kids get the "aren't you too
old?" comment once they pass 12 and so TLC loses its chance to keep an
audience that would,
oncreasingly, be able to pay for sets from their own pocket. Instead of
pampering these kids with bigger, more challanging sets, that aren't limited
in age (1), or rather are *targeted and marketed towards* early teens. If
they create a market image that LEGO is cool - that LEGO isn't just for
"kids" - people will be a lot more inclined, and less ashamed, to continue
their childhood hobby. The teens who just now start making their own money
can start buying things on their own... and as time goes by they will be
able to afford more and more sets, letting the hobby become an addiction,
and that can only be a good thing for the company...
All I can thing of is the Driver's Ed. video I just watched the other night
- talking about how alcohol and beer companies create a popular image for
their drinks, that attracts young or heavy users. The video also showed how
they rely on heavy drinkers for most of their income (one of the factoids
was: 10% of the drinkers purchase about 50% of the alcohol manufactured in
the U.S.). Not to bash anyone at all here, I'm just suggesting that by
encouraging heavy buyers you will increase your profit much more than by
trying to recruit more customers and then sending them away, a few years
later. And certainly, LEGO addiction is a lot less harmful than alcohol
addiction! (IMHO!)
These are obviously simply suggestions. But I think they would benefit your
company, and many individuals who lose out on the fun.
Good luck,
-Shiri
P.S. a lot of this is c&p'd and edited from my post:
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=30506
(1) The 6-99 age "restriction" on the HP computer game is a good start, I'll
say. But definitely *just* a start.
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