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Re: Soccer sets
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 5 May 1999 20:03:11 GMT
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In lugnet.general, main@appstate.edu (Thomas Main) writes:
> 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.
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> So, if the above scenario is plausible, be happy the Star Wars bucket
> was cancelled.
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 none at all.
Would've been good pieces in it no matter what.
--Todd
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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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| (...) <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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