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Re: Soccer sets
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 5 May 1999 13:57:47 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> 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 mind, or
> (bummer, but better than nothing) release it outside of the U.S.
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 in any of its buckets -- even the Halloween bucket,
which someone pointed out would have been great had it included ghosts,
skeletons and bats, contained only "freestyle" pieces. I am guessing
that a Star Wars bucket would have enraged AFOLs because it would simply
have been freestyle parts with a Star Wars label. It's kinda like the
Star Wars toothpaste I saw yesterday -- just a company's attempt to
cash-in on a licensing agreement.
So, if the above scenario is plausible, be happy the Star Wars bucket
was cancelled.
--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
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Message has 3 Replies:
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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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| 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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| | Soccer sets
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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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