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Subject:	Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle
Date:	Tue, 13 Feb 2001 19:39:28 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Rose Regner writes: > I just educate my son on not "collecting" stuff that is just a marketing > ploy to get you to buy a bunch of sets for some non-existent set. This is > nothing new in the world of marketing toys. I used to collect Magic cards (and play the game). I can assure you that you *can* collect a full set of these cards. It just requires patience, and a lot of money and/or hard trading. There's nothing uneducated about it. If you enjoy it, you enjoy it. If you don't, you don't. eric

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) Eric, I also love collecting all these things. I enjoyed when I saw LEGO coming out with disks, then wheels and now masks. I spent a lot of money on the disks, then I had them complete one day. A little later, even more special disks came (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer, lugnet.technic.roboriders)

		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) I believe it's true for Magic. I would not be too surprised if it wasn't true for Pokemon, though. But I suspect it's against the law in at least the US, as it would be false advertising to claim something is available if it is not ever (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) ...Related to Magic though was the big disaster they had with Antiquities (at least I think it was Antiquities), where the distribution of cards was not random. Apparently someone at the card plant screwed up and the sorting didn't work out (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
Michael Edwards wrote in message ... (...) Can you say Pokemon. I refuse to allow any pokemon stuff into our house due to the blatant marketing of a .05 card. I just educate my son on not "collecting" stuff that is just a marketing ploy to get you (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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