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| (...) I'm not bothered either way how many Maersk blue 10152s are made and for how long (I might even get one this time round, its a cool set and I was flat broke last time!). However Its the DARK blue one I was waiting for, it not regular blue. Tim (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| D***, I was really looking foward to that set to get some dark blue bricks. I may be being selfish but I don't really care about the Maersk blue parts, there isn't enough variety of pieces and its not that different to Medium blue but Dark blue (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| Hello! (...) For me (for me) Maersk blue was always quite useless, in terms of building. Before 10152 this colour was virtually not available at all, and through 10152 we got only a small range of parts that was also declared never to be enhanced in (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) I'm being a little facetious here, but a truth you may want to consider is that some people are really gullible---they'll believe pretty much anything. And if someone is able to wrestle money out of them, hey, more power to them! ;] But (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Someone simply needs to convince Maersk to change their corporate color from Maersk blue to dark blue! (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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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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| In lugnet.lego, Ronald Borchert wrote: [snip] (...) When I first read your comment, I was shocked. Then awed, then disgusted. Your reaction is exactly the kind that makes me sick. Buying up large quantities of a "rare" set just to make money on them (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego) !
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| (...) Hi, very poor try of irony, Larry, you normaly write better ones ;-) To make a serious theme out of this: It's for sure a good deal for TLC when Mearsk wanted them to re-release the ship. But that they now decided to make the same model again (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| <snip> (...) <more snippage> I agree somewhat, yes another run does "flood" the market more with sets, however, if you are truly diligent with your MISB sets, I'm sure in 25 to 30 years, a Maersk Sealand will reach a fine price in the after-market, (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| OMG, just about everything off the first post in this thread is so lame. First, Jake, thank you for the update. I'd been kind of wondering actually. Also, thank you for telling us the story in detail. Where so many other official releases would just (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX) !
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| (...) And it appears that many a Lego fan has requested the grays to remain the same. Of course there was no choice. Perhaps all those in favor of keeping the old grays have less pull than Maersk. Seems there's no problem producing Maersk blue again (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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