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Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
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Date: 
Fri, 6 Jun 2003 21:03:54 GMT
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Jason J Railton wrote:

In lugnet.general, James Trobaugh wrote:
I wonder why this set would be available in Europe but not the US:

http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?prod_id=10042

Not really a big loss I guess, I'm not that impressed with it to start with.

jt

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...

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



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  Re: Why would set 10042 not be available in the United States?
 
(...) 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?
 
(...) (URL) Ken (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.general)

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(...) 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)

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