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Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —James Trobaugh

I wonder why this set would be available in Europe but not the US: (URL) really a big loss I guess, I'm not that impressed with it to start with. jt (21 years ago, 5-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Jason J. Railton

(...) LEGO interntional PR pulls off a corker again! I can see the whole of Europe rushing out to buy these to hang in streamers next time Dubya decides to demonstrate his international diplomatic skills to the UN... Jason R (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Frank Filz

(...) So what is this set? All I see is an orange "this product not available in this country" banner, even when I change my shopping cart to another country. I'm guessing it's an NBA set. Frank (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Maggie Cambron

(...) Good try, but its something you would never have guessed. An American flag. But don't worry, IIRC the stripes were just stacks of red and white (1 x n?) plates and the blue area seemed to be more plates with probably six headlight bricks to (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Jason J. Railton

(...) Everyone still calls it that. I don't think anyone would be upset by what you call it, apart from the highly pedantic... ;-) Okay, so technically, it's the 'Union' flag. A 'Jack' is the national penant hung at the rear of a ship, so it's only (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Aaron West

< Snip > Quote previous: And Apple Pie is a German recipe, not American. < Snip > Ah. But they immigrated here and brought their strudleie goodness with them. My wife's family is 100% German and Americanized quite well, which I think is the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Simon Bennett

(...) Have you seen the one I did to liven up the loc.uk sidebar a bit? I've been meanign to tell you about it since your the big mosaicist. I plan to get a better lit pic soon and I've spotted one small error which I have to fix first. This is the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Jason J. Railton

(...) I had seen it. It's a good one. I've only done a tiny one for the back of my piggy-back train car - about five studs by 8 plates. There's no real detail, but you can just about tell what it's supposed to be. It's the French and Germans that (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Maggie Cambron

(...) I suppose we can blame one of your countrymen for perpetuating that misconception: "There was an Old Man of the Cape, Who possessed a large Barbary Ape; Till the Ape, one dark night, set the house all alight, Which burned that Old Man of the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —James Stacey

Maggie Cambron wrote: <snip> (...) Too late The name "Jolly Roger" is thought to have originated from a nickname for the devil, "Old Roger". However, it is more likely to have gotten its name from the French word for "pretty red", "Jolie Rouge". The (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Jason J. Railton

(...) I think it's from before that, but it doesn't help. There's a vague rule that monkeys have tails and apes don't, but a lot of macaques have really really short tails that messes that one up. Generally apes hang and swing, so have longer arms (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Ken Dowd

(...) (URL) Ken (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Huw Millington

"James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message news:HG0wo8.19os@lugnet.com... (...) Huw (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Ronald Vallenduuk

Had to look it up at Lugnet, 'cause overhere in the Netherlands it's not available.... The only reason I could see to get this would be the white technic half pins.... Duq "James J. Trobaugh" <james@ngltc.org> wrote in message (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Thomas Stangl

It doesn't look like haf-pins to me - it looks like it uses 2 1x4 blue technic bricks with white 1x1 round plates pressed into them. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Ronald Vallenduuk

Nope. Have a closer look. They're definitely 1/2 pins. Duq "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message news:3EE16440.300DB8...faq.com... (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —Bert Waters

(...) My guess is that it will be introduced for July 4th in the US. Bert Waters (21 years ago, 8-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States? —David Gregory

I emailed LEGO and just got a reply that the USA flag set IS now available for delivery in the USA. As far as I know, it's only available through their call-in odereing system though. Here's their exact reply to my message: Dear LEGO® Builder, The (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)