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(...) My thinking on this was even broader than just AFOL's. I was thinking of the lack of marketing to the masses. When laundry detergent or toothpaste or automobiles or shampoo or razors or pizza are changed, the marketing departments and (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) For all who might hear: In a recent talk with a very nice (and honest) person at Customs Service, this person told me that the major reason for this color change was to match Mega (...) (21 years ago, 17-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Now THAT would be a pleasant surprise. I've brought up such an idea briefly before, but like you said, it won't be very likely. Even if they had a minimum order amount, that wouldn't be too much of a problem when groups can combine their (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) what EuroBricks is about: (URL) it as a kind of knowledge center platform where newer LUG's can profit and share the experience from the longer established LUG's, for instance in the field of participating with events. It's an initiative by (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general)
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It would be more accurately stated: Nobody goes home happy! How could anyone possibly go home happy when the answer is TOUGH, maybe we will offer some limited availability elements but after that too bad we could are less. It is wholly and (...) (21 years ago, 16-Feb-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego)
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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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