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Re: Soccer sets
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Date: 
Thu, 6 May 1999 00:44:39 GMT
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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 long as it had lots of
dark grey, green, orange, or purple pieces.

Thomas Main wrote:
> 
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > 
> > 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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(...) 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 (...) (28 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Soccer sets
 
(...) <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 (...) (28 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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