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(...) and interesting detail; the line going from bottom to top. Also I like the way it makes the window stretch cleanly from the floor to the ceiling. I remember this technique. Thanks, Chris (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Brown Bulk Bricks are in!
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Great news! We have received limited quantities of the brown bulk bricks to our US Shop At Home distribution! This inventory is limited, as it arrived by air. There is much more on the way via sea and will be here no later than March 30, 2001. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Web vs. Catalog product selection (was: Brown Bulk Bricks are in!)
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(...) <clip> (...) Dear Jake and LEGO Direct, Updates are as always appreciated. However, I'm curious why the brown bricks are "live" in the spring paper catalog and not "live" on the web site yet. Having been in the catalog business, I know that (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Web vs. Catalog product selection (was: Brown Bulk Bricks are in!)
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(...) Actually, the people in charge of the products on the site are also those same people responsible for the catalog. I am not exactly sure why the delay happened, but I assume that they haven't gone on the web site (therefore available to (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Jake: Does this mean that those of us who have already placed a brown-bricks order stand a chance of getting the pieces before March 30? Thanks, james (26 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I believe so yes. Basically, there are two shipments to Shop At Home of these products. One comes via air and arrived today or yesterday. The other is coming on a ship and is scheduled to be delivered to Shop At Home no later than 3/30. So you (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Excellent! Thanks for the info. Also, a brief word of thanks to LD for bringing us the brown bricks. james (26 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | the need for the RIS 2.0 release date
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First - to the people at LEGO Direct: I realize this is a long post, but please take the time to read it. Second - to everyone else: this is a reprint of some of the rampant speculation that has been going on concerning the RIS 2.0 release date. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | The mythical 3033 tub
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Dear TLC, I would realy appreciate it, when you would make the 3033 tub avalable in Europe, Australia and other parts of the world that still are deprived of this great source of building fun. Greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (26 years ago, 24-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Lugnet Promo Sets
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(...) Funny I was looking at all the local Shell stations and couldn't find them. I sure wonder why the didn't meet their "qouta." How many others ran into a similar problem? -Mike Petrucelli aka Lord Insanity (26 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Community to design new LEGO T-shirts
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There has been a long-standing demand for cool, especially iconic, lego clothing, which TLG has unfortunately failed to provide us with (usually sporting just the TLG logo, or Johnny Thunder shirts, etc.). So far as I've seen, in biggest demand is (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"John Neal" <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message news:3A8EF184.FD00A9...est.net... (...) be (...) designs (...) Godt", "I read (...) At least ONE person on Lugnet didn't know that John! Do you have any left?? -Kieran Brady (26 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: LEGO Cool Kids - looking for innovative kids
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(...) Arianne, Hi and welcome -- it's nice to see a new face. :) What's the URL of your new area? --Todd p.s. Please re-read point #15 in the LUGNET Discussion Group Terms and Conditions: (URL) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message <3a9ac877.62126493@l...et.com>... (...) (URL) is the section that's featuring my daughter Lizzie at the moment. The only way to navigate to it that I can find is to sign in as a Web Club member, then click on New Stuff. (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Check out LEGO, and it's not you guys
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I did a LEGO search on GOOGLE.com and look what I found. (URL) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hi Todd: Thanks for the welcome! The URL is www.lego.com/coolkids -two new kids will be up by Thursday. Please check it out! Just to follow all rules and identify myself to anyone reading, my name is Ari Vena and I am an associate producer with LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hi Ari - welcome to the group. Typically other LEGO Direct employees identify themselves by signing their name like so at the end of messages, its a bit less cumbersome than your sentence there ;) Name Position, LEGO Direct (or something (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Deja Vu 2002
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(...) Well, I for one won't have to wait until 2002. I just secured a nearly complete Ice Planet collection from E-Bay ;-) The white and trans-orange (gimme more trans-<any-color> anytime ;-) ) will surely find their places in my Space Shuttle (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
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First off, let me just say that she DID identify her self in her 1ST post: (...) Secondly, Welcome Arianne. I want to know about something i've heard regarding TLC. (the LEGO group) It seems that i've from quite a few people now about LEGO tech, or (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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I think the marketing department needs some help. Every time I hear "our market testing shows that kids and parents want juniorization" I am amazed at how large the gap between marketing and reality is. Parents and kids want the exact same things (...) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Train Show Flyer
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(...) !! Is this a LEGO sponsored train show? It sure as heck looks like one, but the legalese on the back says it isn't. Does anyone know more about this? James (cross-posted for visibility, follow-up back to .trains) (26 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Deja Vu 2002
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(...) Gimme more trans anything except trans anti freeze, that color is crap :) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Deja Vu 2002
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(...) In your next lego movie, put a blacklight near that transparent light green. That looks REALLY neat! NICK !^/ (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.space, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | TLC Lost $120,000,000
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Volgens het ANP heef t LEGO het afgelopen jaar een verlies geleden van bijna fl. 300 miljoen. Het verlies is groter dan lego in november had verwacht (100-150 miljoen). volgens lego had de gehele speelgoed industrie last van een teleurstellend jaar. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.lego)
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| | LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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from :(URL) Company announces poor performance in year 2000 Billund, Denmark -- The LEGO Company today announces it ran a deficit of about DKK 1 billion in year 2000. "Financially, the past year was extremely disappointing," says Poul Plougmann, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.announce) !!
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| | Re: TLC Lost $120,000,000
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Here's the press release on lego.com: (URL) Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Lego auctions: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths: (URL) Lego Web page: (URL) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Corrected distribution of Kanohi Masks (8530)
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(...) Are you sure you got a GREEN Kaukau and not a TRANSGREEN one????? (...) I just hope we get an answer from Lego SOON!! It can't be that difficult to find someone who is actually responsible for the bionicle line......... (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: New Bulk Ordering Newsgroup?
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(...) James, could you give some examples of non-marketplace bulk ordering topics? Do you mean things like selection, quantities, colors, wish lists, etc., or things like speculation, excitement, etc.? (...) Once upon a time there was a thread about (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Corrected distribution of Kanohi Masks (8530)
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(...) With 'Green' I meant Transparant Green , not 'Untransparent Green' (like Lewa's mask). It's a slightly lighter shade than 'Onua's Eyes Green', but it is still a very 'dense' transparent green (not like the transparent brown Kaukau mask). But I (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | What Kids really want. Not Juniorization.
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I find it very hard to belive no one had anything to comment on about this. Then I relized it was only posted to lugnet.general. (URL) certainly found my results intereting. -Mike Petrucelli (26 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:G9Lq9C.8L0@lugnet.com... (...) As did a lot of us. I really really really would like to seriously look into doing a survey (as scientific as possible) of people who purchase LEGO in toy (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think a third party survey would be very good for TLC to conduct. Of course they would have to conduct a very serious survey and accept the results for it to mean anything. Maybe that Enigmatic "we lost money and will revert to our core (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:G9LsFJ.Cu3@lugnet.com... (...) I'm not so sure I'd be that optimistic, really. From what I've learned about the company, its hard to effect policy which is decided in Billund. The (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO Company Teams With Skateboarding Pro Andy Macdonald
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From: (URL) Company Teams With Skateboarding Pro Andy Macdonald Company Aligns with Professional Skateboarder to Promote New Line of Action Heroes for Kids New York. February 13, 2001 LEGO Systems, Inc., the division of the LEGO Company that serves (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic.bionicle) !
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Mike Petrucelli wrote in message ... (...) I think that it was interesting, but this topic has been discussed numerous times. One Lego employee wrote about it (URL) you might imagine, the lack of time is one of the significant factors that hinders (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yet this "marketing reasearch" directly contradicts that which I observed as an Assistant Manager at KB Toys. As my original post stated many parents and kids thought Mega Blocks sets were the good Lego sets. Most of the people that know the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:G9qJwF.Gqu@lugnet.com... (...) an (...) kids (...) know (...) How sad, but true. (...) YES!! We *are* the ones making sense here, those who have observed the decline of LEGO products and (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:G9qJwF.Gqu@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) that like construction toys. [snip] Mike, you have gotten to the core of what bothers me about LEGO's marketing strategy and direction over the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think you're missing something here. Nintendo and Sony are in the positions they're in because when someone said, back in 1982, "The lesson here is that there are already companies out there (Atari, Mattel, etc.) who will always be heads and (...) (26 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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