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Re: Some 2005 sets showing up already in regular stores.
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lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005
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Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:12:20 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Daniel Rubin wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Paul S. D’Urbano wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Bryan Wong wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Paul S. D’Urbano wrote:
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Out of curiosity I looked at Amazon/TRU for this set. I found something
titled:
Lego Radio Control Ferrari Enzo (8652)
(just go to http://www.toysrus.com and search for “Lego Ferrari”)
Is 8652 radio controlled?!?!?
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No I don’t think so. Here’s a picture of the box:
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Thanks for the pic Bryan.
Earlier today I went to a TRU and purchased one so I had already seen the
box in person. I almost didn’t buy it because I think the stickers used for
the headlights are very unappealing. I think they make it look like a cheap
toy at first glance and distract from the rest of the interesting details in
the design.
I plan to leave those stickers off and I’m expecting I’ll like the look of
the car much better without them. At least that’s the impression I get when
I hold my fingers over the head-lights while I look at the picture on the
box (go ahead, try it, you’ll see what I mean :-). I wish there was a way
they could have used smoke-colored slope bricks to represent the headlights
instead of the stickers.
Interestingly, in regard to my original post, I noticed that when the TRU
cashier scanned the box the name that appeared was something along the lines
of “LEGO RC Ferrari - Promo”. Somehow TRU got confused into thinking this
would be an RC set while of course we know it isn’t. Not sure if we should
read into that about the possibility of a real RC Ferrari set in the
future...
Regards,
Paul
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The headllights aren’t stickers. The headlights are printed slopes, and
everything else is stickers.
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Doh!
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It’s very weird. You’ve probably opened yours by
now, but thought I’d put it out there.
-Dan Rubin
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Thanks for the info Dan. I haven’t opened mine yet (won’t until X-mas). It
looks like those are ‘Slope Brick 18 4 x 2’. I have a couple plain red ones in
my collection so I guess I can still work around the ugly headlights. Do they
look any better in person than in the picture? (e.g. less distracting and
cheezy?)
Thanks,
Paul
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| snip (...) In person, they look OK, less cartoony anyways. It's a pretty decent model of a kinda ugly car. What it's really lacking are steering, suspension, doors, and for some reason, the window to the engine is build on an opaque plate, I will be (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)
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