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| (...) In case anybody wants them, the instructions are available on the LEGO website, via my instructions cross ref page: (URL) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: 10177: UCS Boeing 787 Dreamliner!
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| (...) I just picked this set up at my local LEGO® store. Its a cool set and was fun to build. I do have some small grips with the nose and the fact that LEGO® removed the second color from the jet. (URL) is a link to some artist drawings of the 787 (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: No more Clikits?
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| (...) I've read in the Annual Report from TLC ((URL) - page 8 of the document, page 10 in the pdf reader) : "...the Group will not launch any new Clikits products after 2006". This may explain why they have disappeared from US lego shop. Didier (20 years ago, 21-Aug-06, to lugnet.clikits, lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: No more Clikits?
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| (...) My understanding is that TRU refuses to carry Clikits anymore, and with TLG's major US distribution channel gone there will be no more Clikits in the US. The UK, on the other hand, has been getting exclusive sets for years, so Clikits may be (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.clikits, lugnet.lego)
| | | | | No more Clikits?
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| I noticed that Clikits sets have completely disappeared from the shop.lego.com website* (U.S. view) and from my local LEGO Retail store. Then I checked a paper catalog and saw they're not there either. Is this the end? -Suz * with the exception of (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-06, to lugnet.clikits, lugnet.lego)
| | | | | TLG: Back in the black
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| (URL) From Forbes>: Lego Group H1 pretax swings into profit as sales rise 19 pct; ups FY guidance 08.16.2006, 08:18 AM COPENHAGEN (AFX) - Lego Group posted a pretax profit of 238 mln dkr for the first six months of the year, up from a loss of 202 (...) (20 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
| | | | | One really pissed off Lego customer!
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| This sucks. So today I was going to finally order the windows I needed for a building I’ve been building for a while now and I ran into a couple snags. 1.) The lego.com and it’s shop.lego.com sites are not loading properly. I had to refresh and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.market.shipping)
| | | | | Re: 10177: UCS Boeing 787 Dreamliner!
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| In lugnet.general, Paul S. D'Urbano wrote: <snip> Hubba. This is the TLG I'm talking about! Bravo! Still keep making the juniorized, smaller sets (for profits), but don't forsake creating the sets that require old school building. :-) JOHN (20 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 10177: UCS Boeing 787 Dreamliner!
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| (...) Well said! My 13 year old "little" brother's eyes just about popped out when I showed him a picture of this set. My mom was about to buy him the (URL) Playmobil plane>, but I advised her to wait for this one. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 10177: UCS Boeing 787 Dreamliner!
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| I think this is a good looking model. Its nice to see Lego is till doing UCS type models that are other things then Star Wars. I showed it to my Dad who works at a boeing plant when he got home, and he said that he hadn't heard anything from anyone (...) (20 years ago, 26-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: 10177: UCS Boeing 787 Dreamliner!
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| (...) I had some concerns earlier this year about the Lego City passenger plane being a little too simplified with the one-piece nose section and one-piece wings, so I'm really glad to see TLC release a plane made from real bricks. I do wonder, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.lego)
| | | | | 10177: UCS Boeing 787 Dreamliner!
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| Okay, so I think this is really neat: (URL) Witt announced this on (URL) pieces, 66 cm long with a wingspan of 69 cm due out this summer It doesn't look like they're officially calling it "UCS" although one look at the display stand and you'll agree (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.lego) !
| | | | | Re: Addressing concerns about Outsourcing LEGO Production
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| (...) Jonathan, I dont know what kind of experience you have working abroad. I worked for them for 3 years in Mexico, and it was not until an American Manager was sent down to get things fixed, after firing 75% of the "work" force (in my (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: Addressing concerns about Outsourcing LEGO Production
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| (...) Ultimately, no matter where TLC decides to manufacture its product, its up to TLC as to who they hire and what code of conduct they enforce on their plants and workers. They can enforce their quality standards on even the cheapest workers. (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: Addressing concerns about Outsourcing LEGO Production
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| (...) Mexico is a country where people working an assembly line, such as many "maquiladoras" found in the Northern States that border the US, make about the hourly wage of a person in the States (in a similar position), but in a day. So instead of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO Company,
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| (...) Yeah, but then I have inventory lying around and other nastyness. Also, paypal is a very untrustworthy company, and it would be safer, for both me and my customers, for me to get a merchant account instead. (...) This is basically what I'm (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO Company,
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| (...) You could just buy your own LEGO Factory designs, mark them up, and stick a Paypal button on your website. And S@H shipping is so fast, you could have "just-in-time" inventory. Admittedly the CafePress model is much nicer, but I don't see TLC (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO Company,
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| (...) Thats with anything, though. (...) This was the method I actually had in mind. I'd be very nice to allow the builders themselves to market the product instead of Lego needing to... well, Lego wouldn't even have to care. They'd just have to (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO Company,
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| (...) An interesting concept, although I'm not sure I quite follow it. Currently, you can purchase other people's designs for the normal price. Even if you couldn't directly through the website, you could sell downloads of your LDD files, and have (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
| | | | | Re: Dear LEGO Company,
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| (...) I'd just like to say this might be a major nightmare. I have painful visions of thousands of low-quality models that you'd have to page through to find the occasional gem. If you had a direct link that you could put on a website, that would be (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
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