 | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —John Kelly
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| | | Lucas's group had final creative authority on the Star Wars sets. (A former model builder friend of mine I still talk to was on the design team.) With any luck, even TLG will see the viablity of high quality sets again. -john (...) (25 years ago, 13-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) More likely, TLG will attritube the success of the Star Wars line entirely to the fact that they are Star Wars. They'll ignore the fact that the quality of the model designs are head-and-shoulders above anything else they've done recently. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —Christian Holtje
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| | | | | (...) Where can I write them to tell them otherwise. A Snail-Mail letter would, I think, be most effective. Does anyone know which address would be appropriate? I didn't see any obvious addresses on their web-site. Ciao! (25 years ago, 15-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) For people in the US & Canada, letters can be addressed to Consumer Affairs (address is in the catalog/flyer included with every LEGO set). Worldwide, addresses can be obtained from www.lego.com. From the homepage, click the "About Us" item on (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —Tom Stangl
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| | | | I bought one of every Lego SW set out there just because it was Star Wars Lego. HOWEVER, I bought the manymany further SW sets for PARTS, because the PARTS in them just flat out ROCK in most cases. I have seen many people post in RTL or (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) And how many part sales/auctions sprang almost immediately after the SW sets were released? There were a some people parting-out sets they must have bought at full-price. I personally think most of the model designs for the SW sets are (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —John Kelly
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| | | | It was interesting to hear him talk about the designs. The orginal snow speeder design had a working tow rope that was pulled for $$ concerns. All of the models have to fit the price point to a fraction of penny. -john (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.[Star Wars Question] —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) That makes sense--profit (the money the owners get to keep) is earned on the margin. If they earn a few pennies from each set, and they can shave a few pennies off the cost of producing the set, and not impact projected sales, they've (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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