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Yeah, and F(*$*($*($ TLG didn't release them in the US! Sometimes I'd like to walk into Billund with a freshly laundered white glove and slap some people silly (and sometimes I'd like to slap them dead, like when I just saw the post about the SW (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Uh, don't hold back, Tom. Tell us how you *really* feel... (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeow -- Having a bad day, Tom? We don't know for -sure- (like officially) that the SW bucket is for-sure totally totally cancelled. Just that LSI in Enfield told retailers that it was being pulled. TLG may still (God, let's hope!) change its (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) I believe the cancellation of the Star Wars bucket may have prevented a lot of TLG flaming. Why? Did anyone ever consider what the contents of this bucket would have been? As far as I know, Lego never included "theme-type" pieces (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I could see these sports sets being big. They could sell them at the stadiums and have team-connected sets. More crossover business for Lego. I can just imagine the Michael Jordan minifig selling like crazy at Chicago Bulls games. (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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Oh no!! It sounds like another one of those do they make the minifig with yellow skin threads. Christopher L. Weeks wrote in message <37305F0F.772008A7@c...ri.edu>... (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That Star Wars toothpaste is absolutely *essential* if you want to brush your teeth wearing your Darth Vader Underoos. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) It sounds plausable to me (not their reasons for cancellation, but the fact that it may have been a FreeStyle bucket because of the name that S@H had for it: "3+ Star Wars Bucket"). But I'd still rather see a sucky juniorized SW bucket than (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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Yeah, well, they ARE braindead idiots. The ONLY logical reason I can think of for cancelling the SW bucket is they realized they didn't have enough production capacity for it AND the SW sets. Gee, maybe they shouldn't have closed Brazil last year? (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, and they weren't. Braindead marketing decision, IMNSHO. (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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I won't be happy if it is. Think about it - the SW sets are heavy in dark grey plates, and orange, green, and purple bits. A bucket would have parts in colors we've never seen in buckets before. I could care less if it had any minifigs at all, as (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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the problem with TLG is that they are trying to lower the mena target age for its line. look at primo for babies. look at all the new duplo sets. look at the town jr crap. look at the emphisis on playsets e.g. adventurers... TLG: introduce more (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They are? I haven't bought that many SW sets as I couldn't see many bricks in them I wanted. I only bought the landspeeders because of that intriguing light green plate and all the brown bricks. But I don't recall seeing any orange or purple (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Simon Robinson writes: [sniper] (...) Orange: in de Snowspeeder among others.. HtH Mark "working on Ep1-sets to come to Europe" de Kock (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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The Mos Espa Pod Race has tons of new orange pieces, some new green pieces, and a couple new purple pieces. If it weren't $90, I'd have several by now. (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes: <SNIP> (...) <SNIP> How is it that I, an AFOL, can spend $500 on Lego's in a single week and TLG doesn't feel that we are a viable target market? The reason SW sets have done so well is due to the theme and (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, I have to say, that this is what my 4.5 year old DOES want. I have witnessed him slowly drifting away from this and more toward building, but it's more on the order of swapping out details etc. of one truck, ship, etc. with new ones. We (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It could have been a purple bucket with a SW label on the front and no other difference. We would have railed at that as being stupid and opportunistic. (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree wholehearedly. Unfortunately, my other half won't let me do it the apartment. :') (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yea, I bought two based on price per part. Judging from Sebulba's racer (haven't built the others yet) I would say its a good buy. Assuming the Star Wars bucket followed some of the color patterns of the Star Wars set, it would be awsome. It (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) !! I think that's a BIT of an exaggeration. I know I would. Especially since the shortages seem to be a thing of the past (knock on wood). So I'll put it to the group. If there is anyone that wants a Gungan Sub, I've got an extra one, and (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't see how this is age-related, though. As a child, I never had all that many new sets with instructions, but rather just a lot of parts, from which I built mostly cars. Then and now, the main attraction for me is the ability to make (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In my experience, kids buy the nicest looking model they can afford and do not usually consider the number or selection of pieces included. This is not an argument for Town Jr, though, because Town Jr. models are uglier than everything else (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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No offense, but I disagree with nearly everything you wrote. And your shift key is in need of repair, as is your spell checker. jonathan wilson wrote in message ... (...) for (...) the (...) I think it makes sense that TLG is trying to aim at a (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Jonathan's assumption may be false, but the data you give below doesn't support the opposite. (...) Large sets are much more worthwhile for a store to ship back to the manufacturer, where they would get blown out of S@H over a number of years (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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Oh boy, Todd and I at it again! Seems no matter where I post... there's Todd - like he owns the place or somethin! Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Twin (...) Okie dokie. Let me support big sets some more. First, it doesn't seem to me that (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I can hear it now..."Dude, did you see that in AucZilla VL, Old Man Lehman uncovered a bunch of city-center sets and he has those cool old 2x10x2 double sloped arch thingies with the 2x6 on top? It's sooooo uncool that TLG stopped making those (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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