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Subject: 
a few 8448s soon available in US - was Re: found 8448 pictures with gear lever view...
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Date: 
Mon, 10 May 1999 20:50:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Adrian Egli writes:
?G. Benedikt Rochow ?rochogb@eng.auburn.removethis.edu? wrote in message
?news:FBBv7K.5tF@lugnet.com...
??
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?? http://www.ansuz.demon.co.uk/Lego/supercar.htm
?.
?? Hmm. So when's 8448 being released, again?
??
?? -gbr

According to S@H (US), they'll get a shipment of ~200 (or was that <200?)
units at the end of this month; they are taking back-orders starting today.
$139.
(BTW, if much of the punctuation above comes out as question marks,
  it's a new malfunction in my netscrape installation. No idea why...)

I just backordered mine and was told there was one backordered already.
I wonder for whom. (And I wonder just what percentage of that initial
shipment will be ordered based on this announcement, as opposed to folks
getting one of those small technic catalogs and calling in hopes
of early availability.)

-gbr



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: a few 8448s soon available in US - was Re: found 8448 pictures with gear lever view...
 
Any idea on # of pieces? alex G. Benedikt Rochow <rochogb@eng.auburn....ethis.edu> wrote in message news:FBJB7J.9Is@lugnet.com... (...) today. (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: a few 8448s soon available in US
 
Also, keep in mind that the fact that this set appears in the in-box Technic catalog, and not the in-box Lego Direct Technic catalog, suggests that it will be available through retail outlets (though probably not Target, K-Mart, WalMart, etc.; (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)
  What are these technic parts?
 
The cockpit of the 8450 Cybermaster add-on airplane model uses what looks a a small variety of bent or flexible crossaxles. Are those the flexible Znap axles, or something entirely new? (URL) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: a few 8448s soon available in US
 
(...) I just got a letter saying that it is backorderd (I knew that) and expected out June 29. I called to see if that was just a generic form letter and didn't really apply to those first 200 orders... They thought I was insane ("I don't know who (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-99, to lugnet.general)

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