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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.general, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> > Though perhaps not the primary reason, I think TLC may enjoy their LL
> > parks having a unique edge (expanded colors and pieces) for their models
> > -- a reason to visit.
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> To follow up on the point of uniqueness... I think a further advantage of
> the uniqueness (beyond wow factor for visitors, etc.) is that it becomes
> virtually impossible to duplicate the experience. You could never probably
> go out and duplicate Disneyworld attractions, but if you had enough pieces
> in enough of the cool colors, you _could_ kinda duplicate the LEGOLAND
> experience, albeit on a much smaller scale.
But that whole attitude seems to be contrary to the signs which are all
over the place saying "these models are built with the same bricks
available to you [the customer].", which to me implies that the only
difference is that TLC can afford more bricks than I can. Now perhaps
TLC doesn't see any difference between "I can't afford that many bricks"
and "I can't afford to convince TLC to sell me light blue dingwabbies".
I certainly do. The scale AFOLs have gone to has proven that it isn't
absolutely out of the question for us to get enough bricks to build in
TLC model builder style. I have very little hope of ever being able to
get the same variety of bricks the model builders have access to (though
I think things will improve).
What would be sort of neat is for the model shops to sell some of the
unusual bricks after they have finished the planned models which use
those colors, though I'm sure that some models are planned based on what
they have in stock, not on what they can order. On the other hand, maybe
that would be a bad plan (it could create a lot of bad will as someone
with an angle to get by the model shop on a regular basis could make a
killing getting the vast majority of the leavings and then putting them
up on eBay [and note that there is a difference between my accepting
this type of activity as OK and my accepting that it will piss off a
large number of folks, and even will upset me]).
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) But that's a bloody blatant lie -- or at best a half-truth. (I don't mean that you're lying, I mean LEGOLAND is.) I mean, LEGOLAND can get: * colors that aren't available to the public * older pieces (in some cases) that are no longer (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Why Gary cannot go to Legoland.
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| (...) To follow up on the point of uniqueness... I think a further advantage of the uniqueness (beyond wow factor for visitors, etc.) is that it becomes virtually impossible to duplicate the experience. You could never probably go out and duplicate (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland)
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