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Re: What Happens To Returned Legos?
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:25:25 GMT
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I don't know the exact dimisions of the K8 boxes, from what I understand
they are packed by wieght, 42lbs to be exact.

jt

In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> "Jonathan Mizner" <mizners@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:G78Eyo.Cou@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.general, Tim Courtney writes:
> 
> > > They do not resell them, instead LEGO buys them back and puts them into large
> > > boxes called K8's.  They use these boxes for play area LEGO at events around • the
> > > country.  That's what I understand happens to the returned LEGO.  At • Brickfest,
> > > LEGO Direct sent a few K8 bins out for us to play with, what a treat! :)
> > > 
> > > -Tim
> > 
> >   Interesting.  I would like to purchase a few "K8's".  Maybe we can get
> > Lego to bulk sell K8's to the Lugnet community?  It would be nice to buy
> > bulk amounts of relatively current sets at extremelly discounted prices.  Do
> > you know if Lego Direct would even respond to the request?
> 
> They probably wouldn't sell these -- they use them for events only, as far as I
> understand.  A K8 would have a few hundred dollar value with all the pieces in
> one - they're huge (anyone know the dimensions?), so it wouldn't be worth their
> time to market them.
> --
> 
> Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com
> 
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> http://www.zacktron.com - Zacktron Alliance
> 
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"Jonathan Mizner" <mizners@aol.com> wrote in message news:G78Eyo.Cou@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) Brickfest, (...) They probably wouldn't sell these -- they use them for events only, as far as I understand. A K8 would have a few hundred dollar (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego)

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