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| (...) Phone conversation -- January, I believe. No request, explicit or implicit, to keep the information private. I just remembered it yesterday. It's not a new or novel idea, so it didn't stand out at the time. (...) I just found a sheet of paper (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Bulk Ording Downside?
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| (...) I don't really consider discounted sets as any sort of competition for bulk. In part, I think that what we are seeing is a bubble which is going to burst. To some extent, right now we are flushing out a bunch of excess, poorly distributed (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Right. And this is because everyone loves Rock Raiders, the new and vastly overpriced AND vastly juniorized town sets, arctic, castle, etc? Guess again. I am not touching that large castle set except at deep discount. In fact, I won't touch (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Custom MOC kits (was: Re: Brickmania calls it quits on custom model kits)
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| (...) For the record, I dispute that TLC is "great at designing sets which appeal to kids or JFOLs". I think we all can recite a significant list of recent designs that, based on shelf dwell time, appear to be flops. If we wanted to, but I don't (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | | | Re: Custom MOC kits (was: Re: Brickmania calls it quits on custom model kits)
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| Of course, flops can even depend to some extent on whether the set will make it as a parts pack, after people have said they don't want to buy it! ;-) For those in the USA and other high-usage LEGO areas, there are also the sets that are not very (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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