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Re: Eccentric Slope Packs!
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 20:16:54 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Thomas Garrison writes:
> There is a clear need for service packs of small quantities of unusual slopes.
> LEGO itself has provided evidence: Page 31 of the January S@H catalog has
> building suggestions for Bulk Paks (incidentally, the suggestions are a great
> idea) for a bus stop and a school. The roofs look---weird. Why? Well,
> clearly the bus stop needs to be finished with two 1/2 pyramid red slopes and
> the school needs a 2-stud long roof topper for its bell tower. But the
> pictures cannot include those pieces, because Lego does not currently offer
> them (certainly not in service packs, possibly at all).
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> The solution: introduce a successor to <set:5151>, the 45 degree slope pack.
> Currently, 25 of the pieces in 5151 are available in Bulk Paks in Red and
> Black (not Brown, yet. . .). A *new* set, consisting say of the remaining
> types of pieces in 5151, with perhaps two more of each type of piece (to bring
> up the piece count to around 50) would be an excellent $4.99 service pack.
this is almost exactly what I was trying to get across in another thread. I
would suggest that the current 2x4 and 2x2 slope and 2x4 peek packs are great
as they are. I would suggest that a possible assortment of the "Supplementary"
roof pack might include the following:
10 1x2 slopes
10 2x2 Concave corners
10 2x2 Convex Corners
6 Half Piramids
6 Gable End connectors
6 2x2 Roof Peeks
4 1x2 Roof Peeks
I know I left out the 2x3 slope but I don't find it to be a mandatory part. If
others think it necessary maybe there could be some reshuffeling of the
quantities above.
I love the fact I can do a brown roof but with the parts currently available
(In Bulk or in Sets) you can't do more than a standard 2 sided roof with no
dormers etc. Now I can be paitent so I can wait but a pack similar to the one
listed above would be great.
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> Disadvantage: Probably a lot fewer units sold compared to most Bulk Paks.
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> Advantage: These pieces are probably too uncommon to justify a package of
> 25-50 each for most consumers, so they will not be available in Bulk Paks. On
> the other hand, they greatly enhance the attractiveness of existing Bulk Paks,
> probably resulting in greater sales for those units.
This is a very good analysis of how it would go. As it stands I might only get
a couple of the brown slope packs but if I could get the suppliment shown above
I, like you, could see my self spending a few hundred dollars on Brown Slopes.
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> For example, although I have not yet purchased any Bulk Paks, I can see myself
> cheerfully dropping a few hundred dollars on a light gray version of
> <set:3497> (2x4 45 deg slopes)---if a set of unusual slope pieces such as I
> have described above were available. Otherwise, why bother? The slopes
> available in Bulk Paks would be useless to me without spending *thousands* of
> dollars on X-Wings and Slave Is for the concave and convex corners.
While true I would argue that at least it is possible to get a good variety of
Grey slopes (Except for peeks, the only peek I know of currently is the 2x2
peek in the Gungan Sub). With Brown many of the different slopes arn't
available anywhere. Like I said I can wait and TLC will wait for most of my
spending on Brown slopes until I can have the variety needed for complex roofs.
Just to reiterate, I am thrilled that we are getting these packs at all and
this is just one of my hopes for future packs.
Eric Kingsley
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