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Re: Sanity Check, Please. (was: Old sets being sold in new guise?)
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Mon, 21 May 2001 23:22:00 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse, The Voice of Reason :-) writes:
> My two bricks? Some guy in germany was cleaning out a warehouse somewhere
> and finds some dozens of boxes of a couple of particular older sets that
> didn't sell well (compared to other sets in those years). Atch! he says what
> will we do with them? Brighter manager says, oh! let's re-box them so they
> look like new sets and send them out to stores again.
I strongly suspect you're right, because (1) they're not that great/popular,
and (2) they're not that old. A set that only dissappeared from the shelves
in the last year or two can hardly be a classic, can it??
> But... Some complete goose posts to Lugnet and before you can say "old
> warehoused stock" theories of lost cities of lego filled entirely with
> silver bricks begin to circulate.
Now this is a good idea for the 2002 Adventurers theme! ;-)
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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