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Re: Soccer sets
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 6 May 1999 12:11:41 GMT
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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.
Simon Robinson wrote:
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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.
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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 on the sets in the catalogue.
> Where are those colours? If they've got bricks in those colours then I
> probably will start buying the sets up.
>
> Simon
> http://www.SimonRobinson.com
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> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Tom Stangl
> > ***http://www.vfaq.com/
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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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| (...) 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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