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Re: Another Q for the Ambassadors to ask TLG, please?
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lugnet.ambassadors
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Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:59:40 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Jean-Marc Nimal wrote:
> In lugnet.ambassadors, David Simmons wrote:
> > Why have textured slopes been arbitrarily abandoned? The last few retail
> > purchases of Lego sets that I made disappointed me greatly in that the pieces
> > I'd most desired, 2x2 medium-slope corners and 2x2x3 extreme-slope bricks, both
> > in dark red, were no longer textured. They are now smooth. This means that
> > they will not match all the hundreds of other textured slope bricks in my
> > collection.
> ...
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> Well, as said, we asked again, and here is what we've been told to answer: TLG
> is switching back to textured slopes.
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> So it turns out I was wrong about molds wearing off (and as some poeple pointed,
> it didn't quite fit anyway); apparently there had been some kind of decision
> involved, but that decision has apparently been reversed, and there will be
> textured slopes again in the future.
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> Of course this only prompts more questions, to which we don't quite have answers
> yet, such as whether slopes which have never been textured to start with will
> get some textures; how long will it take to get rid of untextured slopes, etc...
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> We don't know that; only that TLG understood the importance of textures to fans,
> and acknowledged they had to return.
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> Jean-Marc Nimal
> LEGO Ambassador
Hooray! Good work, guys. I'll sure be looking forward to the textured slopes
coming back. Now, just bring our 9V Trains back, too!
-Jordan Schwarz
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| (...) ... Well, as said, we asked again, and here is what we've been told to answer: TLG is switching back to textured slopes. So it turns out I was wrong about molds wearing off (and as some poeple pointed, it didn't quite fit anyway); apparently (...) (17 years ago, 11-Sep-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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