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Subject:	Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping
Date:	Sat, 2 Jun 2001 01:01:42 GMT
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> > "This set [3033] was designed for availabilty in the American market. It was > launched in 1998 and, had it been available have been discontinued this > year. It has been available thoughout the Americas and was not launched in > Europe. Production for this item stops at the end of this month (May > 2001)." Just one min this set 3033 was and still is available in Australia, you know the country which is not part of the USA but that you can still get it in. This set is only in k-mart stores? don't know why ? So the bloke who wrote back to Eric FROM lego like most people who work at lego does not know about there product and never pasted geography in school. So just to reinterate yes the 3033 tub is available out the USA in Oz and that Oz is and never will be apart of USA and that only one shop sell it, Q. so what can you do if you want this set ? A, come talk to the boys and girls at loc.au and ask nicely if WE can get them for you since the British pound is a lot stronger then the ozzy lira you shouldn't have to go with out eating to support your lego habit. > I look forward to everyone's comments on Lego's decision to discontinue the set. > > > Robert "ex-Lego customer" Spinks

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		Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!?
From what I understand the blue tub only shipped to stores during the spring, most stores have received their final stock of the 3033's by now. So you shouldn't have any trouble finding them in stores, but come fall most stores will probably be sold (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)

		Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!?
(...) Indeed - I had spotted that, but given that 3033 is about to be discontinued, it did not seem worth fussing over Lego's poor grasp of geography. (...) In the unquoted portion of the letter to me, he said he researched the matter in depth. For (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)

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		Re: No more Blue Tub... And is this the kick in the pants that Eric dreaded!?
(...) I recently wrote to the Lego consumer services regarding the availability of Set 3033 (1200 bulk brick tubs) in the UK - wanted to find out whther 3033 would arriv in the UK, or not. I recieved a reply from the Global Consumer Service (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jun-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)

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