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THANK YOU for saying something! I got my eToys order last week, and didn't even open it - I ordered 3 sets of roadsigns. Sure enough, there were 3 white sub-boxes in the order, so I only got ONE QUARTER of what I should have! I called, complained, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) How about a McDonalds drive-thru window. Or a metro station train schedule! :-) brian (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) ok, now you guys got me paranoid, checked my order, mine was fine... i even opened the brown dacta box to make sure i wasn't missing something :) oooo.... road signs.... :) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Tom McDonald writes: <snip> (...) A dangerous attitude if they don't get the picture right. :-) (...) I bet, in the end, the names will be dropped. We have a naming convention that works well... in english. I'd hate to have to (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Not all of them. I know, at 8, I would have noticed as you probably would have also. And my six year old daughter would probably notice also. But my eight year old daughter would probably be oblivious. (...) I think it's much less sinister (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I just got my order for 2 sets, and found 2 small plain white boxes. opened one of them and thought it didn't look like 172 pieces. I was impressed on how quick they got my order to me. 3 days, standard shipping. they did upgrade to priority mail at (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) OK, go ahead. Everyone knows I'm arrogant anyway. Personally I think it would be shrewd of them to target the market exclusively to AFOLs with mundanes as a secondary interest. We're the heavy users (1) who are going to buy bunches (is there (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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This is particularly worrisom also. I know I'm right because their website advertises 172 pieces, which is the count on the outside of the larger box. But when I call, I worry that they'll think I'm trying to pull a fast one. The sales rep I talked (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) here (...) And (...) Good point. Only the serious would want those quantities. (...) It wasn't really meant to be a sound line of reasoning. I'm just being annoying. However silly it is, while viewing the big picture, to call it a train (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) As opposed to the naming conventions that LEGO has used internally for years? How about, instead of suggesting that LEGO change the way they refer to parts, why not ask them to share *their* naming conventions with the AFOL community? JohnG, (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Do they have an internal naming convention? Is it in english or danish? Why are the thin walls train windows according to them? They were used in a lot of places. I doubt they have anything that formal. If they do, I'd certainly like to hear (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hey, that'd be great... if they provide pictures to go along with the part names, like Partsref. In the meantime, Partsref seems to me to be the most useful thing out there to make sure we're all talking about the same part. Lego can call (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Except for one problem - has there EVER been a set with plain clear 1x4x3 thinwalls? No printing at all? What about a set with red-framed, GREEN-paned doors? I don't know of one. Quite a goofup if the accidently cast red frames instead of (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) They could have short-circuited the production process to skip the painting of the thin-walls. (...) Quite a (...) instead (...) I'm not sure what happened there. Maybe they goofed before this and bulk ordering was a way to unload the doors. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I dunno, as kids my sister and cousin and I used to use all the (red) weird shaped roof pieces to make complicated roofs with right angles, L's and dormers. Nowadays though, kids might not since the required weird shapes are less common. Kevin (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) What about if we restrict the sample to "8 year old kids who would order from Lego Direct"? I bet MOST of those would notice. (26 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) You hit the nail on the head, they are almost certainly not making the train glass for the window. (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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In that case, those weird shaped roof pieces are exactly what TLG need to consider including in the next LEGO Direct update. Also, I would consider adding a test of sorts if I were TLG, and have inward and outward sloping low corner bricks made up (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That would be fine too... IF it was one rather than many, and IF it was shared with us. ++Lar (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That would be nice but I think new tooling is out of the question. Very expensive, and this has to be done on a shoestring so it's only incurring minimal fixed costs or it will not make money. I'm hoping that they will use tooling not (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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But they obviously easily COULD - 5542 had train glass for the windows AND doors. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Well I just got my order (And it was what I expected to get thanks to all the messages here) but there was a problem on the packing slip. I looked it over briefly and noticed that I was not credited the 10 percent bulk discount for ordering 10 or (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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I thought I didn't get the discount, but then i noticed that the prices were different, ie: instead of $7.99, it showed up on the slip as $7.19, etc... (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd guess molding and printing are two, very separate, parts of the production process. They (probably) don't run a single line to mold and print, all in one shot. Instead, they do all the molding in a run, warehouse the pieces for a bit, and (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yeah, all 10 of them. Steve (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Okay then. :) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Get enough town window parts into Lego Direct production, and you will be seeing some Town folks will wow the "mundanes" with "show stopping" skyscrapers and downtowns as well! (Or do like I do and build a European city with a castle, city (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) What about red frames with green glass? ;) --Bram Bram Lambrecht.........Br...L@JUNO.com (URL) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | OT: Larry P - Was Re: Does anybody actually know Mr Justus?
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(...) snip... ^^^^^^^^ (...) snip.... ^^^^^^^^ Anyone else suddenly picture Larry as looking like Bestor from Babylon 5? :) No offense intended. Just haven't seen that word applied so freely anywhere else. Mark (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Same here. Mine arrived today, yippee! :) LFB (26 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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<rant> I tried to place a $200 order in the evening, the day or the day after LD came online. Big mistake, one foulup after another and I still don't have it. The guy I talked to originally had different prices than the ones on the web site (5.39 (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: OT: Larry P - Was Re: Does anybody actually know Mr Justus?
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(...) would (...) a (...) the (...) Lego Corp is your Mother. Lego Corp is your Father. Lego Corp teaches you to play nice with others, and not hoard your bricks. (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Pedant's note: The service known as LEGO Bulk Ordering[1] makes no mention of LEGO Direct; the LEGO Just Imagine Bulk Pak offerings are from LEGO Shop At Home. Thus, LEGO Direct is not online. --Todd [1] (URL) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego)
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| | what is the min production run #?
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I wonder what the min production run is? Could we submit custom orders yet? I can imagine that if we (LUGNETers) come to some concesus on say window (2x2 or train) colors that there would be plenty of orders. I would love to see: 2x2 windows in (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Brian Lanning wrote in message ... (...) way, (...) we (...) we (...) that (...) More specifically, what name do we call these things that will get some mundanes interested in buying them? I mean, what mundane is going to buy something called a (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Just crossing the post into the train group as well... (...) SteveB www.PNLTC.org (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Steve your on the right track....... If I had my choice, here's what I would like to see as the next group of items offered by LEGO Direct: 2x2 round bricks in white 2x2 quarter circles (macaroni bricks) in clear, white, yellow. 2x2 windows (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, the day crew (evidently the Lego company itself) has redeemed itself in my opinion: the second order I made (with the Priority mail) shipped out the day I made the order, and a hold was put on the first (*almost* identical) order. I (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Hey Gary, don't wait for LEGO Direct on those babies-- order from Poindexter Direct! He's got more of those than TLC does! (...) Everyone forgets about my favorite window-- the 1x2x2 clear and/or light blue thin wall! You can go back to (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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| | News from LEGO Direct
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I have been swapping some e-mail with one of the folks at LEGO Direct and they asked me to post the following on their behalf as one of their folks is having trouble registering with LUGNET. Mike ------ Hello, As you all are probably aware of by (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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