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Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:24:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
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> I'm not clear on where this set is coming from -- is it an airline-only
> promotional set? If so, which airline? The box looks like NA-issue; it
> has the piece count on it (and English/French/Spanish captions).
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> As a promo set, the airline may have wanted TLG to cheap-out. Stickers and
> simple plane-walls would be cheaper than plane-window parts. Especially if
> TLG had a stock of white thin-walls pieces.
Steve,
If I had to guess which airline, I'd put my money on ValueJet...
[insert rimshot here]
On a darker note, I think what it says is that thinwalls are still in
production, while window walls are not. The difference in manufacturing costs
CAN NOT be that much different. The only extra costs would that they would
have to put window walls back into production.
Fittingly, it is rainy and overcast here,
Gene @ The Brickyard
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| (...) Hmm. For the window-walls, they have to run two different molding productions, one for the white wall, and another for the transparent window. That would double the cost of producing window-walls. Then there's also the cost of assembling the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
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| (...) I'm not clear on where this set is coming from -- is it an airline-only promotional set? If so, which airline? The box looks like NA-issue; it has the piece count on it (and English/French/Spanish captions). As a promo set, the airline may (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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