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(...) Perhaps there are different connotations of the term "limited"? "Limited" in that we will purposefully limit production to X number of units to create collector demand, and will never produce them again, thus protecting their collector's (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) At the time, it was. Does that negate new contracts with Maersk? Dave K (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) I'm pretty sure that the 10152 wasn't either. This whole thing seems to turn on a mistranslation more than anything else. That's pretty funny at one level, actually. Most of the rest of the difference appears to be cultural, we seem to have a (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Wrong. TLC stated that they had old Maersk Blue pellets and 'wouldn't it be nice to give the AFOL a really cool set and use up the pellets at the same time'. Why should that negate future contracts? It was a business decision made at the time (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) I'm pretty sure the duck wasn't marketed as a "limited edition of 10,000". It really matters not what their excuss is if they changed their mind they could have changed the model. Their move was compleatly unethical and problably leaves them (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Rene presented them in his post, just one level above Bens posting: (URL) Quotes: “The edition of this set is likewise limited, there is a total of 14,000 copies” “This is your last chance to buy Maersk blue bricks” Yours, Christian (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Wrong end of the line. Imagine what car (or other companies) go through when they promise something in their advertising, and don't keep it. E.g. if the any car company advertises a car to run 100km with 3 litres (The task of calculating the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) around the Transition Team a few months back. Not sure what effect it had or how to "fix" some of the things (one of his theories is that some things are fundamentally unfixable)... (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.lego, Kelly McKiernan wrote: <snip> (...) I just want to make one thing clear. Merely because I have a gripe about a particular decision made by TLC, that doesn't mean I am throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. I love LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Wait... Other than the arguable "limit of 5-per-customer" thing, what Jake said in that quote turned out to be perfectly accurate! - The run that they did used up all of their Maersk blue. It did. True fact. - Litterally no Maersk blue ABS (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) I promised myself I wouldn't continue fanning the flames here, but I couldn't resist one more... The gist of the complaints against TLC I'm hearing is they've made a business decision that "changed" from an earlier "promise" (neither of which (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Gary, the problem is that from Jake's mouth: Quote: I do know, however, that there will be 5 set limit per customer on this set (Troy,are you listening? J). Why you ask? This set uses …drum roll please… Maersk blue! In fact, the run of this (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) MAJOR SNIPAGE (...) The problem doesn't lie within the community it lies within the company. Proof of this is that they are dumbfounded as to why with all of their efforts they are still loosing money. I missed The whole Marsk debate but let's (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) For your amusement: (URL) #203 (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) To clarify: "collectibility", by your explanations, is based purely on your own *speculation* (and others who share your thinking). TLC's "assertion" (as you call it) had nothing whatsoever to do with making the set "collectible", since, as (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) [snip] (...) John, I really don't understand this point. I mean that literally, I don't understand. You may very well be right within this odd-sounding (to me) corner of the collector world. But personally, I fail to see how a simple set (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) All this attitude does is tell Lego that when they make a cool set for a corporate client, they are better off not offering it to the general public. Luckily for the sane amongst us, the public in general doesn't have this attitude. So the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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(...) Amen, And thank you William, Another voice of reason. Let the collectors cry all they want. As I said, Kudos to TLC for taking Mearsk's money and making a profit. Oh, the collectors don't want that happening. WELL TO DAMN BAD. Steven Weiser (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Is that what you get when you cross Tuesday and Thursday? (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.market.shopping)
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In lugnet.lego, Johannes Koehler wrote: ... While on the other (...) I applaud any effort by TLC to spoil the efforts of speculators to profit from the scarcity of a set. I wish they would rerelease monorail, Classic Space, and a bunch of other (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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