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| (...) Just heard a version of this on NPR news. Today is the day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! -Hendo (17 years ago, 29-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Dear lego, please make a service pack with the new windows & doors in it
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| In lugnet.dear-lego, Jonathan Wilson wrote: snip (...) This is true. An element currently in production will usually be more affordable for an accessory pack than making the same element in another color. Some plastic colors are more expensive than (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: Dear lego, please make a service pack with the new windows & doors in it
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| (...) I didnt say new moulds. I said new mould runs. They already make the parts in white, they dont make them in black. Ergo, its more expensive to put the black parts in a set than it is to put the white parts in. (17 years ago, 17-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: Dear lego, please make a service pack with the new windows & doors in it
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| (...) They did make the service pack already, it is the (URL) Beach House>, it also contains a few yellow and black peices too. ;-) Seriously, why would they require new molds for a different colour? Would they not just change the colour that they (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Dear lego, please make a service pack with the new windows & doors in it
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| Please make a pack containing the following parts: new 1 x 2 x 2 window with glass new 1 x 4 x 3 window with glass 1 x 4 x 6 door frame with new glass door 1 x 4 x 6 door frame with new non-glass door 1 x 4 x 6 window frame (with and without the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) Hungary has Flextronics Duplo operations. Not sure what they make for System sets. In the CR - printed parts, manual assembling and packaging Austria - I'm not 100% sure, but I think they make the plastic cans (and again, I think this is made (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) That's all true, but the underlying fact is that they still sell more total volume to the EU than they do to all of North America, and between the US and Canada there is more geographical area involved. In other words, even though distribution (...) (17 years ago, 6-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) You are right. For example, S@H doesn't ship to the Czech Republic. (Is it a bureaucratical issue? Is it a trade-off for lower taxes?) The prices also differ among countries. (17 years ago, 6-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) Well, yes... that's why I called it the biggest market. (...) IIRC, LEGO regards the various EU countries as seperate markets. It certainly has different distribution strategies between them. But I could be wrong. Cheers Richie Dulin (Please (...) (17 years ago, 6-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) Is it? I knew it couldn't possibly be ABS (due to the fact that natural ABS has a translucent milky-beige color, and clear ABS is supposed to be EXPENSIVE), but I'd always thought it was acrylic due to how easily the transparent parts used to (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) Remember that they were originally planning to move production to China. Reportedly there were two main considerations with abandoning that idea. The first was that there was an intense backlash concerning quality issues (which would only have (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) The USA is the largest market only in the sense that we barely buy more total product than Germany since the debut of the LEGO Star Wars line. Germany still has the highest per-capita sales by a massive margin, and the EU (which was comparably (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) Well, they do... you provided a list above - "Components made in Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Mexico and the Czech Republic". Now, I'm guessing that the first two (at least) are not really cheap labour markets - but I could be wrong. (...) Well, (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) I live in El Paso and that is the wage in Juarez, or less. I would doubt that it is too international. Nothing is made in the US, Germany, England, New Zealand, or Australia. Though some things are made in China. I would say that the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) (Note that I don't know, and that I'm not wearing my Ambassador's hat here). I would guess that costs are a major consideration, and that the NAFTA has had a bearing on this - keep in mind that the USA is LEGO's biggest market. (...) Well, (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) Perhaps it is due to Flextronics not having the quality control that Lego did. Why they moved production to Juarez Mexico is beyond me. Perhaps very cheap labor, less than $2.00 an hour might be the reason. Shades of overseas clothing sweat (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) The same "color issue" is visible on the grey (and presumably red although I dont own any of those) porthole pieces from the Santa Fe Super Chief set. (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) One issue may be the application of orange paint on a different material. We all know LEGO elements are made of ABS. However, windows are not made of ABS, they are made of polycarbonate(PC). As PC and ABS are different materials, application (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Four sets reviewd, but only one good one, so be warned!
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| (...) Indeed, they do! I raised this issue in a previous post when commenting on this set which I'd purchased: (URL) the picture, the front wheels are shown turned to the left, which is physically impossible as they are fixed on the model. I really (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| So I got the newest catalog tonight, and flipped through it . . . And suddenly, "What the [lenghty diatribe, of the flavor that got Marchetti banned, snipped]???!!!!!????!??!" Okay, I realize that there's been inflation, and it's been maybe a decade (...) (17 years ago, 1-Jan-08, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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