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Re: Sanity Check, Please. (was: Old sets being sold in new guise?)
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Date: 
Mon, 21 May 2001 13:50:23 GMT
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> > 2. My two bricks: Billund is located in Denmark. These sets will appear • with
> > new set number and new box and reissued under the label "classic". This • is
> > definitely no decision of a 3rd class Black Forest store manager, but • will
> > be a new Lego line.
> 
> You seem very assertive about these statements, Arnold.  Does the • Brickhead
> have inside information?  How do you know this is so?  I ask because if • you
> are correct, the advent of this new line is momentous for both TLC and • AFOL
> alike -- AND it is no small thing!

Well, I have read the news on 1000steine.de - when Réne announces that these
sets will be issued in fall I see no reason at all to be suspicious. As I
said, as a dealer he has information to the forthcoming releases. That's it.
These sets will be available in Germany (and I bet at least in the entire
EU) in autumn, that's for sure.

> No, if what you say is true this is a huge and correct (in my estimation)
> step in the right direction. If they would just cycle a handful of sets
> every year that would satisfy most AFOL eventually.
> It would have been
> better to choose more beloved sets though...

That's right... if there's a pirate ship that is NOT regarded as "classic",
it's 6289.....

> A reissue "classic" line of products would be TOO COOL!!! It's one of the
> things I have been wanting from TLC for a long time!

They really seem to listen....... unbelievable, but true.

> This is HUGE news and the results could be amazingly amazing...!!!

Let's wait and see if you don't end up with a reissue of 6079 or the awful
witch swing.....

brickhead



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(...) You seem very assertive about these statements, Arnold. Does the Brickhead have inside information? How do you know this is so? I ask because if you are correct, the advent of this new line is momentous for both TLC and AFOL alike -- AND it is (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-01, to lugnet.general)

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