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Re: 10152 Update
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lugnet.lego
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Sun, 19 Dec 2004 05:58:43 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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Personally I’m not sure I have a lot of sympathy for collectors that want to
buy up multiple copies of a new set and thus make it harder for others to get
copies. (Precious Princess, call your office!) Or for collectors that make
decisions about what they collect based on percieved scarcity. Collect
because you like the set!
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Irrelevant. TLC made a promise. They are willfully breaking that promise.
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I love that set. I got 5 copies myself, and I even got some of my friends
that weren’t going to buy 5 themselves to sell me some of theirs, but I did
it because I wanted the parts for projects. And I’ll likely be using them for
just that. I parted one out already just to get one part that you can’t get
many other places (I used it in my MTW-2001 BNSF recolor)
If Maersk and LEGO decide to make more Maersk blue sets, I think that’s just
great. It is reason for a celebration, not for wailing about broken promises.
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Perhaps, but that still doesn’t change the fact that TLC is purposefully
breaking their word. And unnecessarily so. Why not use the extra Maersk blue
pellets for a run of GP38 locos? Or trucks? Why willfully produce more of a
set that they promised would never be produced again? It’s just bad form.
What’s worse, they may cancel the run of dark blue that (at their request!)
AFOLs voted upon??? It’s marketing madness. And the whole thing is so
unnecessary!
Somebody at TLC had better think this one through better because the whole plan
stinks.
JOHN
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Um, because their big and important customer asked them to do so, and paid for the pellets specifically to produce this particular set, not so you, John Neal can have your fantasy GP38s in a color scheme never seen on a GP38 in the wild(and (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) I fear the end of the wrld is coming my friends, because I actually agree 100% with John here. But I think it's not surprising coming from TLC that they broke their promise. We've seen a change of corporate attitude in the last years that aint (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| (...) Wait, I'm lost here. Can someone please point me to where Lego promised (in writing) that they would never reintroduce this set? Or did they simply say (at the time) that there wasn't a business case to produce more 10152 once their original (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: 10152 Update
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| (...) How many of those "collectors" went out and said they had hundreds at 200 USD each for sale? Personally I'm not sure I have a lot of sympathy for collectors that want to buy up multiple copies of a new set and thus make it harder for others to (...) (20 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX) !!
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