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In lugnet.general, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Johann [mailto:hardcoredj@techie.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:43 PM
> > To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com; lugnet.build.minifigs@lugnet.com
> > Subject: Re: legos biggest mistake is...
> >
> >
> > > Their biggest mistake is to treat one country
> > > like the only market that matters, and to more-or-less • ignore the rest of
> > > the world.
> >
> > This coming out of the continent the had Rock Raiders a year
> > before anyone else?
> > Interesting....
>
> And here I was thinking rock raiders were released last year
> everywhere...The only set that I thought wasn't was the mini-fig pack
> [4930?] which I'm not sure if it was released in the US [but the US is
> restricted to sets produced in the US (which has more 'general release' sets
> than any other country)
>
> For the record, the Rock raiders were released in Australia in
> August/September last year [according to the catalogue]. I was sure they
> were released several months earlier in other countries.
>
> [Anyway, if they were released here a year before any other country, then
> they must only be available here still, as it's not a year since they were
> released yet]
>
> Benjamin Whytcross
> BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
> Ph: (03) 9856 5282
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> 1/436 Elgar Road,
> Box Hill, 3128
>
> Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
Odd. Very odd. Why was TLG-Aus advertising them on there website in February of
'99 then? I didn't see them on TLG's main site until months later. Even then, it
took them quite awhile to be released here.
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