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Re: Soccer sets
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 6 May 1999 00:42:13 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.general, talonts@vfaq.com (Tom Stangl, VFAQman) writes:
> > 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 bucket being cancelled - TLG, YOU ARE BRAINDEAD
> > IDIOTS!). I'm not about to spend 1/4 of my Lego budget on shipping for the
> > sets I can't get in the US.
>
> Yeow -- Having a bad day, Tom?
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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.
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> Speaking of releases outside of the U.S. :) Soccer is a lot bigger of a
> sport outside of the U.S., right? Isn't it fair to say that they probably
> would have flopped pretty hard here? Maybe baseball of football would have
> worked here.
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> Still, we can probably all agree that the soccer sets -should- have been
> available via S@H at the very least.
Yes, and they weren't. Braindead marketing decision, IMNSHO.
--
Tom Stangl
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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 (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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