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Re: Brad's talk
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Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:25:43 GMT
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FYI: Telling from the pictures, the Swedish boxes are the same (both box and
type of pieces) as those at LEGO WORLD. Also, the boxes were specially printed
with full-color art.
So appearantly, this wasn't a singular opportunity, but it's a new marketing
concept of TLG and boxes may very well appear in severa countries and places
soon, I guess.

We have now "inventoried" three sets of these boxes and for the major part they
are the same. Some contain other elements though.

For instance, the two I have been digging in has plenty of both rats and frogs
while a third one, dug by Tore Eriksson, does not have neither frogs or rats but
owls.

Of the two boxes I've been digging in only one had 1 x 16 bricks (and it _had_
close to 100 of them :) ).

At least five stores spread out over Sweden has been reported to carry these
boxes so it's likely they will appear in other contries as well. Hope it
restocks with a different set of parts later, a hope that is not shared by my SO
- she found it rather boring to watch two grown (?) men digging in a cardboard
box for about an hour :)

According to a salesperson in one of the Swedish stores (loosly translated):

"All stores have access to the boxes, they (TLC) tests if this is a good way to
sell basic parts since a lot of people/customers ask for that."

He also says: "There are about 50 different bricks and colors."

I'm doing my part to show TLC that this is a good way to sell parts in Sweden :)

--
Best regards,
/Tobbe
<http://www.lotek.nu>
(remove SPAM when e-mailing)



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  Re: Brad's talk
 
"Tobbe Arnesson" <StPnAtM@lotek.nu> wrote in message news:Hn5JIv.812@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> - she found it rather boring to watch two grown (?) men digging in a cardboard box for about an hour :)</snip> She should have been at LegoWorld: entire (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Brad's talk
 
(...) Just one hour ? Yesterday I was at a Toys R Us in Den Haag (The Hague) where I met somebody who was digging the box from 12:00 till 20:30 !!!!! The shop's employees gave him food and drinks ;-) I only spend two hours filling up two liter bags, (...) (21 years ago, 31-Oct-03, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Brad's talk
 
(...) FYI: Telling from the pictures, the Swedish boxes are the same (both box and type of pieces) as those at LEGO WORLD. Also, the boxes were specially printed with full-color art. So appearantly, this wasn't a singular opportunity, but it's a new (...) (21 years ago, 22-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.legoworld)

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