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Subject: 
Re: Color Change - Final Update
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Wed, 5 May 2004 19:48:34 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz wrote:
I would like to see TLC issue a bulk tub which contains a good assortment
(not a tub of 1x1s like 4407 is) of bricks, plates, slopes, in the new
colors.  I don't know how well these would sell on the shelf at Target,
probably not well at all.  If they were augmented with some castle walls,
turets, and some castle figs, they could be marketed as a Castle "Designer
Set".  For those of us who are not castle people, we could still get a good
quantity of bricks and plates and probably find "homes" for the other stuff
we didn't want.

So I am asking TLC to help me make lemonade out of what is now a small
basket of lemons.  If you want me to embrace the new colors, make them
readily available in a broad palette of elements and I'll get on board. If
I need to part sets out to get them, then it will be years before I have a
suitable supply to build with.

This is definitely true. If I could buy tubs with a wide variety of parts in
the new colors at 5 cents a brick or less (at least 75% greys and brown, but
hey, if you want to throw in some of the other colors, that would be cool
also), I would buy a  bunch of those right off the bat to be able to create
decent constructions in the new colors. Heck, price them right, and I might
acquire more brick in these colors than I have in the old colors.

Frank

I'll add my voice in with Frank and Mike on this one. The bulk tubs in the new
color (as some suggest, maybe even with Castle-specific parts) would be an
excellent way to get the new colors into circulation. Maybe as a S@H exclusive
or something. I'm not a castle builder, but I wouldn't turn down all the nifty
castle pieces if I got them with a bunch of other useful pieces in the same
color themes. Bulk is bulk, and bulk is good.

- Kelly



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Color Change - Final Update
 
(...) Adding my voice to this, a new bulk castle tub would be fantastic. Bulk as in 3 cents per part, or lower mind you. Also, if adding the cost of the tub made the set prohibitive, I still think it would sell if packaged otherwise. Those tubs are (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)
  Re: Color Change - Final Update
 
(...) Yes! The 6 packs that were done for us recently used up 6 SKUs. We've been told in the past that there's an SKU shortage. Bulk tubs use up a LOT less SKUs than their equivalent in service packs, ne? Run off 2 or 3 bulk tubs with a decent (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, FTX)

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  Re: Color Change - Final Update
 
(...) track (...) Hmm, BURPS. Actually, I think you could almost get away with the rectangular ones. The triangular ones aren't that useful in bulk. I did use a bunch in my cliff scene, but only because I wanted to conserve rectangular BURPS. If I (...) (21 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

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