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Re: Item suggestions for the 200x LEGO System Collection.
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:07:18 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, James Jackson writes:
    I would like to see your company produce an Ilyushin IL-62M passenger
plane (with minifig-scale windows, thus making it shorter than a scale replica
:{ ). DC-10s and DC-9s are easy but have you ever made an MD-11 (Since TLG is
Dutch-originated, give it Northwest Airlines/KLM Royal Dutch decals. They have
a shared route from Memphis to Amsterdam.

LEGO is Danish, not Dutch.  Denmark, not the Netherlands.

And, you'll find their standard response is "we do all our developement in-
house, we do not accept designs from people outside the company"...  (And
since a good friend of mine worked for LEGO Futura designing sets, I've heard
stories about how sets were cancelled because they would have cost 2 cents too
much to produce!)

Too bad, because there are a *LOT* of great designs being produced by AFOLs
around the world...

<sigh>

John G
  (you can probably guess to remove the ".nospam" to reply...)



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  Re: Item suggestions for the 200x LEGO System Collection.
 
(...) replica (...) have (...) Thanks for the information on the Dutch-Danish mix-up. However, The MD-11 is worthy of the classic Flight collection as is the Il-62M. (Think of a DC-9 with a second set of engines fused on the sides of the first two (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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  Item suggestions for the 200x LEGO System Collection.
 
To whom it may concern: I was thoroughly disappointed by the lineup of building models made available for LEGO System in 1998 and 1999. Based on what I found out from other Lego fans on the Internet, The LEGO Group (TLG) released models with less (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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