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(...) Um, because their big and important customer asked them to do so, and paid for the pellets specifically to produce this particular set, not so you, John Neal can have your fantasy GP38s in a color scheme never seen on a GP38 in the wild(and (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Sorry for two replies here to the same post. (...) Maybe. Wouldn't bother me too much. (...) I have more sympathy for wanting multiple copies of the set for parts than I do for those that want to buy it up, not caring about it as a set, and resell (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Irrelevant. TLC made a promise. They are willfully breaking that promise. (...) Perhaps, but that still doesn't change the fact that TLC is purposefully breaking their word. And unnecessarily so. Why not use the extra Maersk blue pellets for a (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) No. I've never said that. In fact I myself have sold sets above MSRP. Just not while they were still on sale from S@H, while hiding that fact from my ebay buyers, or while trying to corner the market, or while giving the false impression that (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.theory, FTX)
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(...) Larry I can recall only one...Precious Princess in particular, and having more than the limit of 5 is what I find disturbing about that. I think Johannes is right...many people probably WERE hooked by the prospect of getting a Rare and Limited (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) How many of those "collectors" went out and said they had hundreds at 200 USD each for sale? Personally I'm not sure I have a lot of sympathy for collectors that want to buy up multiple copies of a new set and thus make it harder for others to (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX) !!
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(...) Hey JoJo ..Yes I know it was going to be rereleased in the dk blue(I voted for green I think) but there were plenty of folks who bought it not because it was limited and wanted a collectors item but with the intention to make a profit off of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Hello! (...) You totally missed the point, Chris. The ship was already announced to be re-released in dark blue which would have made it in no respect a less great set for kids and anybody who simply enjoys building it. While on the other hand (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Sad..whatever happened to just buying a set because it looks like a great set! or fun to build play with! For those of you who bought this set just so you could make a profit later and took those sets away from people or kids who would have (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Hello! (...) You'd certainly be well advised not to. Everything you promise (in good faith, no doubt) is in danger to be turned into a lie by TLC themselves. (...) Limited. Sure. Like the "limited" run that made us buy out the first run, huh? How (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) For all collectors who trusted your words of a "Limited Edition" of this set and bought it by thinking having a real rare and collectible set with the ever last bricks in maersk blue this announcement is a kick in their ass. One more fact not (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Hey Jake, thanks for updating us on what's going on. I hope and pray that you will be able to release the Dark Blue version, personally I think it looks better that the Maersk blue! -- Nathan (22 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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Jake & All, (...) Right. (...) It is a very cool set, no doubt. (...) Excellent. (...) Well, I for one am glad to here it will be out again in the blue, even if it is a limited run. Maybe Maersk will be able to help make some more sets, like, oh, I (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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All, As the saying goes... I have some good news and some bad news about the 10152 Maersk ship. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to post an update. We've been working on a number of things surrounding this set. As you certainly recall, the situation (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.announce, FTX) !!
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(...) Well, we just wrapped up our holiday party and ran back to the shop to put the finishing touches on the Fenway model a few hours ago. I gotta say this was a great but challenging and nerve-wracking model to work on. Sheesh, there's not a (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !
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(...) hehehe!! :D That would rock much!! I had it set to United Kingdom, and it said that the set would be "coming February, 2005." I thought they had run out of both the granules and the actual sets. My thought was similar, that this would be for (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Whoa. What country were you set to? I get "this item is not available in this country" (set to USA)... maybe it's a placeholder for the new colored version? But that doesn't sound right, presumably they'd use a new item number. If they found (...) (22 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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I noticed this today on LEGO's Shop@Home website: (URL) in Feb. 23, 2005. The return of Maersk Sealand. Just thought I'd post that, Ben M. (22 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Rob, call your office! (...) It will need to be a BIG collection, that place ain't cheap from what I've heard. (...) Except for the "be able to read" part... (...) Prolly a good thing. (22 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.lego)
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(...) I'll be taking up a collection from all of you so I can move to CA and fulfill my life's dream by taking this job at LLC. This job description describes me almost to the "T", but I see no mention of a Dremel! ;P Rob (22 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.legoland.california, lugnet.lego)
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