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(...) I completely agree. I don't think anyone at LEGO will lose their job for this. I also don't think "that Lego was trying to sneak the color change in the back door". This statement implies that they actually thought the color change was (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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You are absolutely right Bryan. Look at what happened to the 4400 tubs that came on S@H for a VERY short time. A few BrickLink sellers were able to order tons and many that would have liked a few missed out. Availability of classic grey and/or brown (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Even if they made 10k bags of various parts, I can still see a small number of people buying up HUGE quantities of the bags. So we are still left wanting more of the original colours. Either way, the problem will be un-resolved. *sigh* -Bryan (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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I wouldn't hold my breath for this to actually happen. This sounds like something to make us AFOL think they care about our concerns, but it will never materialize. I seem to remember something a while back about Lego having too many SKU's already. (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Yea, I got to dig those out sometime. Frank (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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<snipped> (...) this (...) I would be willing to bet not a single one. The ones that will lose their jobs are the line workers. The first to go when a company runs into a financial downturn. (...) research (...) mistake (...) Could not agree with (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Well, at least we'll all have a chance to get at those 10,000 bags. One question I've been wondering of and no mention was made of it(?) was what will happen to 9V track? Will they also be of the "when they are gone they are gone"? Adr. (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Had I beed at BF PDX, I would have wanted to ask the following questions: 1. How many staffers lost or will will lose their jobs as a result of this color chage fiasco?? I know if I were KKK, I would discharge the entire marketing team, the (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Ack! Did not expect this... Previous unveilings at similar conventions: Santa Fe Super Chief MOC Santa Fe Cars Wright Bros. Plane Train Engine Shed Designer Sets Space Shuttle Discovery Lunar Lander Cloud City etc. etc. Brickfest PDX: a couple (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) That is a let-down. It might mean less incentive to go to the Brick Convention, especially for those who are sitting on the fence on whether to go or not (if they haven't been to one already). However, (having been to two Brickfests already), (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) One thing to add to this, Jake passed around a couple of the new Harry Potter minifigs. This was the extent of the "new set revealing" that was done. I suspect we will not see as much of the new set revealing. In one way it's a bummer to not (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Frank, what happened to the pics from this year's (Brickfest 2003) Pirate Game? Are they going to be posted somewhere? Just wondering. Thanks, Ben (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) I expect we will see more pictures today and tomorrow. Most of the locals were pretty tied up with fest activities, and most of the others are travelling today. There may have been issues with the wireless feeds, preventing people who might (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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We had a great pirate game this past weekend. I will be posting more later, including the winners. What I would like to do in the meantime though is to collect pictures. As might be understandable, I didn't have a chance to take a single picture (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hello! (...) Huh? Never heard about this before. (...) That I am aware of :) Though the 1000steine-Land in Berlin has not been the first event. But that's a different story. (...) In my case it's a relationship over 25 years, if I count Duplo in ;) (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) (all snipped) Thanks for your efforts, Larry! Always extremely kind of you to spend time bringing this to everyone unfortunate enough not to be able to attend. --Dave (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) [...a lot of positive things...] • We lost some of the primary building colours. (...) A "leap off the cliff", in some regards. (...) Regardless of how honest your answer (and the whole affair) was, it was communicated in a way that left way (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Grr. I lost the rest of the questions that I was going to post and we are out of time.... this was a pretty short question time. (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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Here are the first few questions Colors: A: Jake is answering the color qiuestion: We had to (see text) but we did not communicate right. They are NOT coming back. but... we are going to try to produce some old colors in bulk... 10000 bags of each (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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