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| Nice try on putting some icing on it. Unfortunately, production re-runs of a supposedly limited item generally is a No-No, Mr. McKee! You now have folks at TLG HQ write that down a hundred times for easier learning. And all the others here too who (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks. I'm glad that this isn't turning into a flame war between afols :-) (...) ... (...) Okay, my mistake. Indeed, you didn't mention that you would loose money and such. It seems we are the same kind of collector: we either enjoy the sets (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| In lugnet.lego, Mark Neumann wrote: Snippage (...) Doesn't Lego have huge vaults with sets from the past that any of us would kill to get our hands on - NOW! Why are they saving so many sets? They must be collectors too! -Patrick (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) That would be an incredibly stupid business decision. (...) Number 1 isn't correct as Maersk wouldn't get their set now. They would have to wait while TLC developed a new set and got approval for it from Maersk, developed new instruction (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| Like this one ;-) Maersk train (URL) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, an excellent business move by TLC! These come once in a Maersk blue moon, so let's enjoy it. Yeah, yeah, the 10152 was supposed to be the last run of Maersk blue. But isn't this good news? - "Hey, we got some other company to subsidize (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) This is good news! All we have to is find a shipping company whose trademark color is old light or dark gray, and convince them to subsidize a run of old-gray 10152s. Simple. Marc Nelson Jr. (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| In lugnet.lego, Mark Neumann wrote: (snip) (...) In general, you're right. But not in this case. (...) ...and so do most of the other AFOLs I know, for sure. (...) plus, what tools TLC uses to sell those specific sets we're talking about. (...) (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Good news would be if the second run was only for Maersk and not for selling them again. What do you now mean with "limited"? Each limited set, TLC sold in the last years, got a second, third..... production run. Can you imagine that most of (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| In lugnet.lego, Mark de Kock wrote: Hi! Your last sentence first: (...) You don't have to excuse yourself for that, it's your right if you feel like that. But I wonder about your comment: (...) I indeed didn't talk about making money and it's not my (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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