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Re: 10152 Update
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lugnet.lego
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Date:
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Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:15:41 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Johannes Koehler wrote:
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Hello!
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I certainly won’t promise again! :)
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You’d certainly be well advised not to. Everything you promise (in good
faith, no doubt) is in danger to be turned into a lie by TLC themselves.
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The good news is that once again, Shop At Home was able to take advantage of
this limited run to produce another (relatively) small quantity of the
10152 in Maersk blue.
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Limited. Sure. Like the “limited” run that made us buy out the first run,
huh? How many collectors, do you think, bought this set because they were
hooked by the prospect of getting a rare and limited set?
Bye
Jojo
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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 next time Maersk offers to buy pellets for a set, and the marketing
people as Jake, “Do you think AFOLs will buy this one?” 1 He might say, “nah
don’t waste SKU space or bother shipping it to the warehouses. Just make a
bunch for Maersk and be done with it. The AFOLs will just complain.”
More of a good thing is always better, and this is more of a good thing. And
Jake was so honest about the whole thing. Really, some people here must feel
like they’re married to Lego with how far they take the fan-company
relationship. I mean, Lego promised? They didn’t. I haven’t seen a
conversation about imaginary promises like this since I broke up with my psycho
girlfriend 10 years ago.
-Alfred
1 Like anyone ever asks that. If they do, its mostly because of Jake. :)
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: 10152 Update
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| Hello! (...) You'd certainly be well advised not to. Everything you promise (in good faith, no doubt) is in danger to be turned into a lie by TLC themselves. (...) Limited. Sure. Like the "limited" run that made us buy out the first run, huh? How (...) (19 years ago, 19-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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