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peeron update
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lugnet.inv
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Wed, 2 May 2007 02:15:32 GMT
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Just to update on Peeron and to answer some emails I have received, Peeron has
been adding set pictures at breakneck speed. Somewhere around 70 that I have
submitted in the last 3 or 4 days. They are also making inventory corrections
at about 20 or so a week. Part pictures go up about the same day I submit them.
I think that they are doing an excellent job. And I thank everyone that sent me
an email. Those that wanted updates I will let you know when I get to a set or
sets you asked about.
One thing that I wanted to mention is that the sets with granulated trees and
bushes seem to come in both ways. Granulated and then the flat trees or bushes.
I believe it was Gary I. that mentioned that they were withdrawn rather quicky
do to kids eating the granules. I believe that some with the graulated parts in
the instructions and on the boxes never came out that way. Once Lego printed
the boxes and the instructions they used them. Larger print runs means cheaper
per copy costs. I had some correspondence with a lady at Lego in Denmark that
said they would do an initial run of printing and that would be it as long as
the sets did not sell very quickly. Only sets that had extremely good sales
went to a second or third printing (much like the 10152.) They would plan for
the set to sell out in 2-3 years based on experience with like sets. That was
the basis for the size of the print run. So when they changed parts (trees,
bricks 1x1 round, tiles) the insturctions would still show the old part. She
told me that they would mix parts in the sets, for instence solid stud round 1x1
bricks with hollow if they had a lot of the solid ones in a color until they ran
out. Waste not want not. The same with the 1x1 plates with various
modifications. She had no idea when I asked how a Mega Block piece got into a
MISB that I bought at TRU. Her best guess was an unhappy employee. How could
anyone not be happy working at Lego?
John P
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) John, This matches what I've seen in several of the Samsonite sets. Gary Istok calls this "LEGO Mayhem". Thanks for the information, and I'm glad to hear that Peeron is getting updated so quickly. Eric (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.inv)
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