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Re: TLG investigation 1st answers
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Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:45:53 GMT
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ones.  Another similarity is that car companies do not go back and make
another production run of 1957 Chevy convertibles or
1963 Corvettes, just because a group of old customers, "that grew up
with them/wish they had never sold it", now want them
again.  That covers the - Re-releases of old sets topic.  Get over it
guys!  Nostalgia is fine for those who live in the past.

Um, Nissan/Datsun 240ZX  ;-)

Nissan is buying all the originals they can find, and rebuilding them and
selling them.  They have to buy old ones to rebuild because too many of the
molds/stamps are GONE.  I don't think TLG would have that problem.

That being said, I think most people would agree that if NEW sets had decent
parts, instead of the CRAP they do now, or more parts packs were released,
there would be no need for reissues.


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(...) Absolutely. But what puzzles me are people who act as if the idea of re-issuing a set is something that would be totally alien to TLG. If that were the case then what was 2150? Some computer glitch that caused it to be rerun, albeit with (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: TLG investigation 1st answers
 
Kaere Jeroen, So I start another novel. I am not at all surprised by the number of responses to your initial inquiry. Its a bit like opening Pandora's box. Many (adults) in the online community feel that TLG pretty much ignores them, rightly or (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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