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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Johann [mailto:hardcoredj@techie.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:08 PM
> To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com; lugnet.build.minifigs@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: legos biggest mistake is...
>
>
> In lugnet.general, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dave Johann [mailto:hardcoredj@techie.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 2:43 PM
> > > To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com; lugnet.build.minifigs@lugnet.com
> > > Subject: Re: legos biggest mistake is...
> > >
> > >
> > > > Their biggest mistake is to treat one country
> > > > like the only market that matters, and to more-or-less • ignore the rest of
> > > > the world.
> > >
> > > This coming out of the continent the had Rock Raiders a year
> > > before anyone else?
> > > Interesting....
> >
> > And here I was thinking rock raiders were released last year
> > everywhere...The only set that I thought wasn't was the mini-fig pack
> > [4930?] which I'm not sure if it was released in the US [but • the US is
> > restricted to sets produced in the US (which has more • 'general release' sets
> > than any other country)
> >
> > For the record, the Rock raiders were released in Australia in
> > August/September last year [according to the catalogue]. I • was sure they
> > were released several months earlier in other countries.
> >
> > [Anyway, if they were released here a year before any other • country, then
> > they must only be available here still, as it's not a year • since they were
> > released yet]
> >
> > Benjamin Whytcross
> > BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
> > Ph: (03) 9856 5282
> > Directory Technology Pty Ltd
> > 1/436 Elgar Road,
> > Box Hill, 3128
> >
> > Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
>
> Odd. Very odd. Why was TLG-Aus advertising them on there
> website in February of
> '99 then? I didn't see them on TLG's main site until months
> later. Even then, it
> took them quite awhile to be released here.
Who knows...The website is done in the US [and therefore biased towards the
american market wittingly or unwittingly], and even then the US pages aren't
always acurate. The major problem I see with the pages [eg
'australasia'/asia pacific, europe, North America, south america, japan [why
does this country have its own section?]] is that they cover a wide area and
hence are error prone. After all, some areas in this region get a bigger
range than others [NZ gets a range considerably better than
Australia's...and they are supposedly both supplied through Lego Australia]
I know I've seen sets on the webpage that aren't available in Australia and
that the webpage indicates are. [I've also seen sets listed there that have
been discontinued for several months]
Anyway, didn't someone spot the micky mouse [and other] sets on the european
online catalogue earlier this year [jan/feb]...To the best of my knowledge
they haven't been released there yet, either.
[I personally don't think they care about this area really...after all how
long have they been saying that you can't order from the pages YET?]
[this is on the assumption you're talking about the on-line catalogue [which
lego australia has no control over...it's totally run in the US by Lego US
for the US], and not some site run by Lego Australia (which I obviously
don't know about)...If you're referring to the prices being available, lego
Aus sends out 'complete' price lists to toy stores at the start of the year,
and I was lucky enough to get a copy and post the info.]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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