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Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong was Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:07:48 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> 4 years ago on Lugnet I started a letter writing campaign to KKK about how TLG
> is ignoring us. That letter got 126 AFOL names on it. It never did make it to
> KKK, because the next thing we know, Lego Direct was announced. So they
> certainly did heard us.
In my opionion, Lego direct is inferior to the old service leaflets you used to
be able to get. Under the old system you used to be able to buy, in small
qauntites, virtually any Technic part you wanted. Now you have to buy a whole
'service pack' which is over priced, contains many parts you don't want and has
genrally been juniorized.
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> Today we can buy Lego elements in colors we never even dreamed of 4 years ago.
> Today I can buy dozens of different parts in Maersk Blue in Bricklink (or dozens
> of other colors). But some people just are caught up in always looking at the
> negative.
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> TLG is not perfect, neither is Jake. But they are trying (and in Jake's case,
> trying very hard). That is more than TLG did for AFOLs in the previous 40
> years.
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> For someone who has been involved with Lego for 44 years, I have to tell the
> rest of you this: For a long time no one has been more critical of TLG than I
> have, and for good reason (I actually purchased 90 copies of one $5 set in 1987
> only to get the 4 yellow windows out of each set).
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> But since 2001 I have now come to this realization.... in the 55 years that Lego
> has been on this planet, there is no better time to be an AFOL than right now,
> and it is getting better!
No it's not, it's getting worse. I'm totally biased towards technic, but the
whole range is going down the crapper. At least last year we had the Jcb with
ten pnumatic cylinders, this year the only two main models are a rubbish truck
and a jeep which doesn't do much. You can get a re-issued pnumatic crane as
well, but it'd be cheaper second hand off Ebay.
I'll go to bricklink and Ebay to my parts from now on.
Steve
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| Hi Jake, I NEVER get involved with controversial issues on LUGNET, but I couldn't stay quiet any longer (or I might explode into a million minifig parts). First off, the color change thing. OK, it's a done deal. People GET OVER IT!!!! If you don't (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego) !!
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