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(...) Well as far as the overhead I think the two might be closer than you think. There is a lot of air in the Tubs so the tubs take up more space/part plus the lack of packaging on the bulk packs lower their overhead right away. My guess is that (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A8ADA23.398@mi...ing.com... (...) Wonderful idea, Frank! This would be really cool....LEGO? -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I'm curious as to how the promotional sets work. Is it at all possible that Lugnet could work with TLC to make promotional sets available? I'd love to see an assortment like the Shell sets (and I'm sure Lugnet would be happy for TLC to sell them (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I don't think it's "obvious" they can do better. I think the buckets and tubs (pretty much only available in the US and Canada I think) are almost a loss leader. I don't think they actually are a loss leader, but I strongly suspect they are (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Time for me to hop on the soapbox too. :) When I first heard they were going to make "bulk" packs available, my hope was that they'd do something like "1000 assorted white" for $30, and so on. The term "bulk" usually implies "large quantities (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) lol, add "boogie" plates -John (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Just a quick note: On page 5 of the US Bulk element offering, item #5226 Cross Axles is misspelled as "Cross Axels". --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) If those parts became available, I'd have to start riding my son's bike.....[1] -John [1] having sold off the car for $$$ for parts;-) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) When you say "old Lego," roughly what year or year range are you referring to? I haven't really noticed any quality differences recently, but huge quality differences since the 70's (better since then). Is the quality lesser now than, say, 5 (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(URL) it bookmarked ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Search for Jason Catena, he did a very sweet summation. It hasn't been as active lately, I think people stopped sending in their suggestions. ++Lar (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Since i came out of my dark ages almost 2 years ago, I haven't paid MSRP for any non-SW set. As you said, the value for the dollar just isn't there. I echo the sentiment that I'd rather spend on the secondary market than pay full price for (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) how the quality of the Lego brick is way down. Anyone that has old Lego can put it sid by side with the new ones and can see that there are huge differences in the quality. Here are a few: 1. The old Lego were much brighter and had a better (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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I was finally able to get into the bulk pages! it's been very hard to get to the Lego site lately, I know you are working on it though! One thing I noticed, all the new items don't show a price? is this an error? or just that we all got excited, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Here is another useful URL, for the MRJ plugin: (URL) it's included in the current 4.76 distribution too. So, I have tried to run the Brickolizer under the Netscape MRJ plugin with no success. (It is also necessary to spoof the UserAgent string to (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) No, actually it's about the elements for me too. I never even wanted any space stuff until I conceived of Castle Blacktron some months back. So, it's absolutely about the bricks, but price remains important too. The only reason I care about (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well, I'll tell you what. What we are talking about here are apple and orange AFOLs. You are the type of AFOL who likes to build and collect *sets*. You pine for the old days when sets "were still good". Me? I am the exact opposite. I look (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Gary Istok writes: <portions snipped> (...) My personal top 10 wish list of bulk parts (aka - wallet drainers) 1) 2x2 or 1x2 gray tiles. (Sidewalks, parking lots, streets that can go anywhere, aircraft carrier decks, etc.) 2) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd gladly pay a premium price for an unopened older castle set (6071, 6067, 6074, 6086 come to mind) before I pay full or even 70-80% of full retail for the junk they have on the shelves now. I bought my last new sets at 67% off and I barely (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Ok, what is up with the S@H site? I can't get past the gateway.asp page at all anymore on any of my browsers sans Netscape 6 and many of us know what a burden on our system that beast is. Navigator 4.08 (latest version of the standalone browser) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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