 | | Next year —Kevin Zwicker
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| | | Hello all, I went to TRU this morning to see if I could get the UCS X-wing. They had one left but the box was opened and taped and generally looked bad. I asked an employee, that was restocking the Lego shelves a few feet away, if they had another (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | Re: Next year —Bradley Dale
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| | | | | (...) Castle didn't go away, it just swung halfway around the world. I like the Ninja sets. I haven't really bought much Knights Kingdom, is it like Castle Jr. or something? A new subtheme would be great. I hope its the next genration of forestmen. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | Re: Next year —Daniel S. Allen
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| | | | | | | (...) You know what I wished they'd do, is to make sets like Guarded Inn, etc, where it's just like a building from a medieval village. They put way too much emphasis on catapults, trapdoors, etc. They need more realism! (...) hockey (...) Well, its (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Kyle Henneberque
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| | | | | | | | (...) I believe the last time there was a library was in 19- oh wait, they never have. So, are you trying to say that a real town isn't chock full of rescue and construction things while being totally devoid of any houses or retail stores? Kyle (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Nick Cameron
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Me & a friend were discussing the new town sets once. We both agreed that what we need is a subtheme called "Real Life". The town sets look to happy. The happy looking construction workers apperently love their jobs, the PRISONERS in the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Mark D. McKean
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| | | | | | | | (...) As much as I like the idea of a LEGO library, I doubt that they'll ever release anything like that (or stores or museums or other sedate structures) outside of Belville. Rescue units and construction units are exciting to pre-pubescent boys (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Ben Roller
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| | | | | | | | | (...) ...and girls. Generally, girls seem to like these kinds of toys better than the race cars and action-packed police chases that little boys like. Ben Roller (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —John Neal
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| | | | | | | | | | Hey Ben- Wanna borrow my asbestos suit? <gotta go>...INCOMING!!!!! :-) --John (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | | (...) Not really - if they want to make inroads to female sales, they need more buildings. Girls tend to gravitate towards building more permanent structures (just read through all the posts here on Lugnet, you'll see it's basically true). -- | Tom (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Alex Farlie
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| | | | | | | | (...) And TLC/TLG?Futura needs tomove way from the pale pink/lime green of the Belville era. IMO I feel that range was misguided.- Lego(R) has never been Mattel or one of any of others of 'fad' US toy manafacturers. Lego(R) in the 1980's early (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Michael Edwards
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| | | | | | | | I think the ELC (Early Learning Centre) find it cheaper to purchase Megablocks in bulk than Lego, also Lego is expensive compared to Megablocks - also its a hit with parents on low income. -- Michael - - - Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk - - (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | Re: Next year —Alex Farlie
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| | | | | | (...) Castle Jr would be a VERY ACURATE description of Knights Kingdom. I won't buy it or town jr. (...) hockey (...) at (...) they (...) UCS Star Wars-14+, Mindstroms 12. (...) seven! (...) Altoguh take a look at the Racers line. That is defintly (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Rob Drechsel
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| | | | | | | (...) it? (...) Whoa, would anybody do this? Rob (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | | (...) I can't find the thread, but there was a large discussion on this about a year ago (maybe a little less, I forget exactly). At any rate, several different propositions were made including the meta-boycott of juniorized sets, boycotting ALL (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Stephen A. Campbell
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| | | | | | | (...) If you want Town LEGO(R) do this: Buy a boatload of bricks, some from retail, some specialized pieces from LEGO Direct. Don't forget to get some widows and doors. Assemble them is interesting ways. Bingo: Town! Ta DAA! Isn't that sort of the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Steve, Now this is odd because I agree with everything you had to say but I still feel a need to play devils advocate. I will admit that I could care less what model is created out of a certain set of parts packaged as a set. All I care about (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Alex Farlie
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| | | | | | | | (...) More (...) Castle (...) abut (...) it? (...) But what about the more specialised parts in town? at the moment the bulk seems to only be the 'very' basic bricks. Perhaps I lack imagination? I would like to see Jr remain but not soley. Perhaps (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Stephen A. Campbell
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Perish the thought! And I'm working on an article. Art takes time, you know... :-) SteveC (URL) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Kyle Henneberque
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hey, it's all good. You are still using your imagination to design with the greatest toy on earth. Besides, what do you do if you have a wonderful idea that makes extensive use of a part you don't have too many of? You use Ldraw or MLCAD or (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | | | (...) for (...) You probably didn't recognise it as being Technics. All those Roboriders and Slizers are supposedly Technics sets. I guess it is "Technics Junior". (...) I think 14+ for UCS Star Wars is a "marketing device" to suggest they have a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | Re: Next year —David Simmons
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| | | | | (...) AFOL (...) This explains why Arctic flopped. (...) More (...) years, (...) It will go away quickly if they don't stop with the damn catapults! Could we have another inn and some real town-oriented buildings, ferchrissakes? Oh, and BTW, we hate (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Next year —Bradley Dale
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| | | | | | (...) I have built a dog sled for Arctic. Here is how I made the dog- Body is a 2x3 grey brick. Hind legs are a 2x1 white brick. Front legs are a 2x2 white inverted roof brick. Chest is another 2x1 white brick, in front of the grey 2x3. They are (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Dogtail —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | | Bradley, Is the tail of the doga 2x1 curved brick with plate, aka PartsRef # 6091? (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Dogtail —Bradley Dale
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| | | | | | (...) Yep, that's it. (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: Next year —Kevin Zwicker
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| | | | (...) Hello again, Sorry about replying to my own post, but I remembered something else that the rep told me. TLC gives stores permission to put their products on sale. It seems that when store discounts or deep-discounts our favorite toy, TLC takes (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.technic, lugnet.sports, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | Re: Next year —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | In lugnet.general, Kevin Zwicker writes: <snip> (...) OK I have a question because something in this does not make sense to me. When does TLC give persmission to put thier products on sale? Do they just give blanket permission (Unlikely but I could (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: Next year —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | (...) Interesting... the toy guy in our local Zellers (not the Lego rep, the store employee) told me that TLC really loves it when they have a sale on Lego because the store takes the hit, they still pay TLC the same price for the sets. Maybe it's (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: Next year —Kevin Zwicker
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| | | | | | | In lugnet.market.theory, Kevin Wilson writes: <Snip my own message> (...) I'm also in Canada (Montreal) so I doubt that it is a factor. The rep told me that, at most, the retailer took a 10% hit on his margin during sales. The rest of the discount (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Next year —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | | | | Kev z --- your store employee or Lego Rep is wrong. Think, for a minute, about the number of transactions involved...even given computers, and we all know that the big chain computers are not always right, how could a retailer POSSIBLY track all the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | | Re: Next year —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) This squares with my experience (which is mostly on the back end, not the retail floor per se). Unless a manufacturer gives out some sort of special promotion, inventory costs what it costs. It's up to the store how much or little to charge. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Re: Next year —James Brown
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| | | | In lugnet.general, Kevin Zwicker writes: <snip> (...) Hmm. Interesting. I would *guess* that this is only partly right. It seems reasonable to me that if LEGO tells a store to put set X on sale, then LEGO takes the hit. But at the same time, there (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | | | | | Retailing (was Re: Next year) —Andreas Stabno
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| | | | (...) margin (...) I wouldn't be surprised if LEGO retailing is similar to the automobile industry. The manufacturer sells the sets/cars to the retailer/dealer for a specified price and provides pricing stability through the MSRP. Retailers/Dealers (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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