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Lego will not sell accesories to retailers! Wow, Rob, that is infuriating. I
always guessed that it was the otherway around; that is, retailers couldn't move
the trains so they stopped carrying all the train stuff. My guess was always a
bit suspect because around Christmas all the trains are gone from the stores
Letter witing campaign?
Chris
Robin Werner wrote:
> All,
>
> The GFLTC was going to organize a LEGOFest at the H & R spring show(1), but
> it’s not going to happen. I met with the owners of H & R Trains for more than
> an hour. I showed them my plans for the event and they thought it was great
> idea, but there is one big problem! They don’t sell LEGO products in their
> store any more and don’t want to promote them. It seems that TLC won’t sell
> them train track or accessories, only the one starter set. They have tried to
> work it out with TLC people (upper management) for years with no success. They
> returned their stock to TLC and told them that they will not sell their
> products if they don't support retailers. And it’s not just the little shops,
> a friend of theirs they met at last weeks toy fair that is with Target can’t
> get track either. The Target rep seed that they probably wont sell LEGO trains
> much longer. The H & R people claim they really like LEGO trains, but not the
> TLC people that market them.
>
> H & R Trains still would love to have us(GFLTC) at the show but wish we used a
> different type of trains in our display.
>
> I bet if H & R trains sold LEGO trains. They would sell more LEGO trains at
> the show than the LEGO store in Orlando sells in one year.
>
> (1) H & R Trains is one of the southeast largest hobby train stores with a
> large stock of model trains. They have two train shows a year with model
> railroaders and manufactures with no flee-market style table sales, just
> layouts and it’s free to the public.
>
> I wish LEGO would stop going backwards! And market all train sets in stores,
> design better train model, add more 9V accessories (remote points, lights,
> parts, etc.) and stop this crap! S@H and LEGO Direct are not enough! The
> public needs to see this stuff in stores for it to become mainstream and not
> just a novelty.
>
> Thanks for your time, just my two cents...
>
> Robin Werner
> Greater Florida LEGO Train Club
> http://members.xoom.com/gfltc
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| (...) When I was last at The Construction Site, Crispin (person who runs the store) mentioned that Lego allows them as a privilege to order this year's train station, weighing station, etc. and they get a limited quantity. Something to do with the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) move (...) That was my guess as well, but like you sed after Christmas the train stuff was sold out (at H & R). And LEGO never sold all of the train stuff in stores in the U.S. And at the TRU in my area (back in 1992-95) the LEGO Train stuff (...) (25 years ago, 27-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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