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(...) Are they sold out, or just discontinued? I bought two packs earlier this week. John (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) They are no longer able to manufacturer them. LEGO found some old molds and produced all of the cypress trees that they were capable of producing (i.e. "We used all the shots in the molds"). Molds have a finite life. There were never any plans (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) just to add to the discussion, Lego Direct's business plan is to never (unless ABSOLUTELY required) to develop new molds. It saves on development costs, and thereby increasing the overall bottom-line for TLC. Ben (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) You did? I called a week or two ago and was unable to order any. (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) week. (...) They sent the cypress trees on Monday and I received them Wednesday. They sometimes (usually?) tell me when they have a low stock of something that I order, so I assumed that they had some more left. Did anybody else order some (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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"Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message news:GzMozz.6vx@lugnet.com... (...) [snip] (...) and (...) (i.e. (...) Interestingly, Brad mentioned in his discussion on Saturday morning that the original LD directive was that they (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) However, one could reasonably interpret "no new molds" as "no newly designed molds" rather than "no newly manufactured molds". They already have the Cypress Tree mold designed, so it would be a matter of manufactureing new molds rather than (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Good point, I forgot about that...I was made aware of this in a follow-up message by Jake. Benjamin Medinets (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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