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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 23:37:04 GMT
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Ray Sanders <rsanders@gate.net> wrote:
> 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.
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.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) One reason that LEGO is constantly inventing new pieces is to make sure that as many elements in a LEGO set are patent-protected. The re-released old sets would not have that advantage. I wouldn't mind if they modified the sets to make them (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) 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 (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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