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Re: 2001 rumours
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Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:48:29 GMT
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I hope that Pirates do come back, and the Islanders. I don't mind slight
juniorization (the armoured car from the 6566 Bank is pretty cool, IMO), but I
just hope they don't sport the absolutley hideous AGES 5 - 8 logo. (I HATE
THAT!)
In lugnet.general, Brian Lanning writes:
> I've seen examples of feedback from RTL on issues like this. When pirates
> went away, there was a lot of talk on RTL about pirates not going away
> forever. I guess there were several very good sources (I don't remember
> which, but it was something like s@h people or lego customer service) that
> pirates were not gone forever. They (the all knowing beings, whoever they
> are) said that the pirate theme was one of the most popular and best selling
> themes ever and that it would be back in a couple-three years. While 2001
> seems to match that time schedule, there was a lot of speculation on RTL that
> the pirate theme would be severely juniorized. That time (circa 1997) was the
> Dark Time when the town theme was dessimated, so there was a lot of
> pessimism. I think, while we're nowhere near recovering from the blight of
> juniorization, things are certainly looking better than they were then. I
> would definitly like to know what makes this person think that the new pirate
> theme will be juniorized. I suspect, though, that this person was lurking in
> RTL at that time and remembers all of the pessimistic posts about pirate
> juniorization. I've seen several examples of this. I've questioned store
> employees/managers as well as the lego reps that fill the shelves at TRU. And
> on more than one occaision, they've repeated information virbatim, sometimes
> little more than speculation, that was circulating on RTL at the time. I'm
> speculating, but I havn't heard anything since then to indicate that any of
> the pirate sets would be further juniorized. The pirate sets were already
> light on pieces since they made use of castle wall pieces and the hull
> sections. Here's to hoping they're wrong.
>
> Maybe TLG is early enough in the design process for the new pirate sets so
> that if we all complain, in unison, in a very loud volume, they may be willing
> to avoid juniorization in the new pirate sets.
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> BTW, TLG, could we please have brown ship hulls again?
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> brian
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> In lugnet.general, Rose Regner writes:
> > I heard a rumor from a store owner that Pirates was coming back. They
> > thought that it was going to be juniorized. If so I hope Lego has had a
> > change of heart.
> >
> > I would consider the source to be fairly reliable.
> >
> > Rose
> >
> >
> > Bradley Dale wrote in message ...
> > > Does anyone know (or care to guess) the new subthemes for 2001?
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