 | | Re: Extinct Castle pieces (Re: July surprise for castle fans!) —John Carroll
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| | | (...) Extinct and out of production are two different things. When the whole LEGO direct discussion started (about a year ago?) a Lego representive said something about reusing old molds and that they don't get rid of the old molds. but some really (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Extinct Castle pieces (Re: July surprise for castle fans!) —Mike Timm
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| | | | | On Fri, 25 May 2001 16:07:05 GMT, "John Carroll" <johnc@digitalacropolis.com> wrote: <various bits snipped> (...) From what I remember on the discussion of the molds is this, LEGO wasn't going to remake certain old molds just for bulk ordering or (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Extinct Castle pieces (Re: July surprise for castle fans!) —David Eaton
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| | | | (...) Huh... I guess I was never told that this was "top secret" information or anything, and I'm not even sure it's true, but what I had heard was that the molds are destroyed if they're not going to be used-- And from what it sounded like the (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Extinct Castle pieces (Re: July surprise for castle fans!) —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) I think they only destroy molds which are no longer useable. Remember, we just had a re-introduction of a part not seen in ages, the Yellow Castle bib style armor (in the Women's Soccer Team). (...) The plastic cape was recently used in the (...) (23 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Extinct Castle pieces (Re: July surprise for castle fans!) —Kevin Salm
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| | | | (...) A lot of discussion here seems to be centered around if Lego still has molds for certain parts. Even if they do not have all of the molds they need, creating more is just one of the costs of producing Lego elements. TLC seems to bear the cost (...) (23 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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