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Subject:	Re: What's going on with all the back-ordered sets???
Newsgroups:	lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.market.shopping
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:08:24 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Dave Sterling wrote:

He also felt that TLG and S@H would be ramping up production and making sure to have good stock for the holiday season.

Ah, so unlike last year, when they decided that the best time to shut down production in Enfield and move everything to Mexico was just in time for the holiday season (leaving many stores, including the Lego brand stores, fairly bare of bricks during December)? :)

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		Re: What's going on with all the back-ordered sets???
(...) Yep:-). Demand was also higher than previous years for sets too. I should also point out that production for sets is a lot like printing - there's a lot of lead time needed to get a set production run done. So what seems obvious now in terms (...) (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)

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		Re: What's going on with all the back-ordered sets???
(...) Hopefully, Joe doesn't mind me posting and paraphrasing his info. He could only speculate, but his thought was that we recent back-order problems were related to... 1. Outsourcing - since the brick production (but not Technic or Bionicle) is (...) (17 years ago, 24-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)

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