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Re: Lego Factory sets released
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:08:47 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bryan Kinkel wrote:
> According to a posting on Jake's blog, the Lego Factory sets are available.
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> http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/blog/index.cfm
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> And check out
> http://shop.lego.com/Factory/
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> At the bottom it reads -
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> Experience LEGO Factory Today!
> Use the LEGO Factory website and Digital Designer to create your own
> incredible models! Then, coming in August to North America, you'll be able
> to order the bricks and elements to build your custom LEGO Factory creations
> in the real world - just like the Factory sets shown here!
I'm practically *drooling* at the thought of this...
One question, tho - does anyone have any idea how this might affect Bricklink
sellers? If I can create my own custom model and have Lego send me the parts,
that makes me less likely to look for those parts on Bricklink.
Of course, Lego might charge more for the parts than they sell for on Bricklink!
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.
JohnG, GMLTC
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| (...) It depends on how the models are priced. If it's a flat X cents per piece, it will probably be overpriced for everyday pieces, but cheap for odd pieces. I'm guessing we're going to see a pretty restrictive palette on these things, though - (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) John- TLC makes 1000s of elements in 100+ (hopefully to be cut in half) colors. That's a lot of theoretical permutations. In any one year, they hardly manufacture a few percent of the possibilities. If they don't make it, we can't buy it (and (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| According to a posting on Jake's blog, the Lego Factory sets are available. (URL) check out (URL) the bottom it reads - Experience LEGO Factory Today! Use the LEGO Factory website and Digital Designer to create your own incredible models! Then, (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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