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Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 13 Dec 1999 23:41:05 GMT
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rsanders@gate*ihatespam*.net
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Will Hess wrote:
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> Yes, but they'd have to take something offline to produce these parts, and
> there's no guarantee that the molds are still useable (or even exist). It's
> also pretty clear that most of the "special" parts are made overseas
> (Billund or Sweeden I think...certainly not the US of A) so they'd have to
> be shipped to wherever set packaging takes place.
Or to put a different way: Are the molds (that were used originally to
make those parts) compatible with the current state of the art molding
machines used by TLC ? A negative answer would imply the need to make
whole new molds.
Ray
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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| (...) But that doesn't seem prohibitive to me anyway. They're certainly inventing new pieces all the time these days, and that takes new molds. And at least they'd still have the basic engineering done for retro pieces. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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| (...) The large radar dish recently re-released in grey in set 4533, (and it looks like a pair of tan ones any day now in 7115) show that old pieces *can* be reintroduced, if there is a desire to do so. By the way, THANK YOU, LEGO, for doing that! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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| (...) Well, it depends. One, if they update their machines. Most molds can be run on different machines, it is just a matter of setting up the machine for the specific mold (core temperature, shot size, etc.) I know somebody posted they put all (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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| (...) Yes, but they'd have to take something offline to produce these parts, and there's no guarantee that the molds are still useable (or even exist). It's also pretty clear that most of the "special" parts are made overseas (Billund or Sweeden I (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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