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Why wont you let stores sell online that want to unless they are really big? Also why wont you let all stores carry the train track and accessories? Also why wont you sell the train accessories stuff in australia (You cant get for example the train (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Stickers - Problems
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(...) I aggree, they vcould have made the engine better. How about making an anerical 440 class steam locomotive TLG? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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"John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:38C30982.EE4F5B...est.net... (...) problems. A (...) rule. This stinks. Lets hope TLC get tired of us calling up and asking for replacments - then they may sort the problem out. Why did you (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:38C28072.77256A...ger.net... (...) No. No. No. The 4559 is quite good. Sure it has problems, but these can mostly be sorted. My kids really like this set. So much so that they have 5 between (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Thank You to Shop at Home
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I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank the folks at Lego Shop @ Home. Some background information is in order, however: Back in early January (on the 5th to be exact), I placed a rather large order with S@H. My credit card was (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering Train windows... My Thoughts
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(...) Right, I'll do about a 50car freight train, but I'd like to finish the 20car grey 4558 and the 5-10 car black 4558 before diving deeply into the freight train ;-) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering Train windows... My Thoughts
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(...) Spoken like a man with terminal Train Jones. Thing is, I have it too, and I probably can hold off somewhat, because, while passenger is nice, FREIGHT is where all the action is. (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Ah, no. We've had that debate already. MOST sets have track and a power pack included but it's not required. I think I've been active in MR since before you were born. (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: an update -- and an apology
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(...) Right, TLC indeed lost money in 1998, but they got on their feet in 1999. (they attributed their renewed success to Mindstorms.) -Shiri (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Stickers - Problems
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I purchased 44 3225s last year and I'd say most had peeling sticker problems. A perfectly flat and well-preserved sticker sheet was the exception, not the rule. -John (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) 3225 is not a set it's a train - it deserves it's own category along with 4558 and 4565. A set in the model train world is something that can operate just using the components in the package. (...) It's been said before, 4561 would be so good (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: an update -- and an apology
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(...) I may be wrong, but I seem to remember reading somewhere, recently, that they experienced a loss in 1998. -Jonathan (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Last I heard they weren't. Ben Roller (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: an update -- and an apology
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(...) TLC is not a corporation it is a family owned buisnesss. Unfortunatly they run it like a corporation. i.e. they no longer seem to care about quality over cutting corners to save money. Now they wonder why they are losing money. (...) I prefer (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) rudeness. (...) No, I will not, and not because there aren't numerous examples. You obviously don't want to hear it, so it's best if you educate yourself. Very easy to do with the internet. We all love Lego, but you have to remember it's a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering Train windows... My Thoughts
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NO, they unfortunately have plain glass, not train glass. Otherwise, those vans would never make it onto the shelves around here, I'd buy them by the case. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) the (...) to. (...) the (...) I've had a similar problem with a 3225 too - at first I thought that the box had been returned to the shop after someon had opened it and pulled the stickers off the backing. They seem to stay on the elements OK (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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I have never had a sticker problem EXCEPT with #4556, the small red train station. Some of the stickers were curling up off the backing when I opened the box, and they have continued to curl up from the elements they were applied to. I wonder if (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Isn't the window glass used on the soccer busses coming out later this year? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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