 | | Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!? —Eli Donati
| | | | (...) Just one min this set 3033 was and still is available in Australia, you know the country which is not part of the USA but that you can still get it in. This set is only in k-mart stores? don't know why ? So the bloke who wrote back to Eric (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!? —James Trobaugh
| | | | | | From what I understand the blue tub only shipped to stores during the spring, most stores have received their final stock of the 3033's by now. So you shouldn't have any trouble finding them in stores, but come fall most stores will probably be sold (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!? —Robert Spinks
| | | | | (...) Indeed - I had spotted that, but given that 3033 is about to be discontinued, it did not seem worth fussing over Lego's poor grasp of geography. (...) In the unquoted portion of the letter to me, he said he researched the matter in depth. For (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!? —Timothy Gould
| | | | | Perhaps they shipped some of the remaining tubs to Australia in order to partially compensate us for a complete lack of anything bulk/interesting/useful like Shop@Home. Ha! Ha! I'll bet that K-Mart imported them themselves in order to rid themselves (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jun-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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