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Heh, hilarious post. :) -- Paul Davidson Lawrence Wilkes <lawrence@thewilkesf...rve.co.uk> wrote in message news:GCvG3K.7Bn@lugnet.com... (...) LEGO? (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) see a (...) That is totally bogus. What if MegaBloks had found out from one of the summiteers about the upcoming bulk trains? What could they have done about it? Rush a whole series of trains and track out to their worldwide online store? (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I can think of some examples. E.g. number of sale of the Y-Wing+Tie set would be reduced if we know ahead that a cheaper mini-fig set will include Darth Vader. The same applies for the C3PO in Millenium Falcon and Droid Escape. LEGO sets are (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Then you're extremely naive. MegaBloks IS competition (as AFOLs have seen other parents buy MB time and time again simply BECAUSE it is cheaper), and if they see a mockup and then get a model to market faster (which they probably could, since (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) ===...=== WARNING: highly synical material to follow ===...=== Although LD should be the ones to supply the real answer, here's my theory: Because it all sounds so cool and important that way. it's exciting. If the info were truly sensitive, I (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I guess I still don't get it. I'm trying to think of an example of how LEGO letting us know about something would hurt you. I mean, LEGO really doesn't have any competition (MegaBloks can only compete on price), so it's not like somebody would (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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I liked what happens to Redini when you click on him, its like a Lego punching bag that you can use while you are trying to figure out what the 84(!) different colors are for Lego, and how to get your hands on all 84(!), hehehe. So Tomas, what are (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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That's actually a stylesheet problem, not a javascript one. It looks like you're using some version of Netsacape 4 for X. Which I happen to be using at the moment too, so I can tell you exactly what to do: select Preferences under the Edit menu, go (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Looked like it would be quite interesting. So, I enabled cookies and went for a look. I gave up after 30 seconds, however - tiny black letters on a fairly dark background made it extremely difficult to read. Perhaps your page designers haven't (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well, there are probably three questions that need answering: 1. Why all the "secrecy?" Because the subjects in question -- whether they're products, services, websites, or whatever -- are not ready to be announced to the public yet. There are (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Very true, no sales = no profit. LEGO is going to offer what they want , where they want. The best that most of us can hope is the better stuff gets to where we are. I'd love for everything to be available everywhere, I don't know if that will (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Note, very importantly, that the online order numbering system and the telephone order numbering system differ; online is "X00018nnn0000" and online has been "P002nnnn". I did my ordering, and proxy ordering, by telephone; in part this was to (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Marc Nelson Jr." <manjr@bricksonthebrain.com> wrote in message news:GCvF8n.60F@lugnet.com... (...) It's (...) Of course, the worse thing you can do if you suspect someone of secret dealings is to expose them. Don't be surprised if the next time (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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And another thing... Why is there so much secrecy surrounding any information coming from LEGO? It's like dealing with the NSA. Examples: #1: The recent "Train Summit". All of the particiapants were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Why? (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Tomas Clark" <tomas.clark@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:GCvDvB.3Do@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) I thought this section was very well done. More the same please. regards lawrence (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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The recent offering of old service packs on shop.lego.com has got me upset over what I see as a bad policy of LEGO's: no shipping outside shop-at-home territories. There are people over here in the US begging to buy these old and rare service packs, (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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As some of you have already noticed, we recently launched a new section of LEGO.com: (URL) the Build section has some content that might be of interest to Lugnetters and AFOLs in general -- and will hopefully have more in the future -- I thought I'd (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.lego.announce) !!
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(...) My suspicion is that if these parts were available in the US that there potentially would have been fewer total buyers. Why? The deep pockets eBay resellers would have snapped them up pretty quick. The quantities are pretty low (one of the (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'm sure I'm not the only castle fan who was really brought out of their Dark Ages (in my case, since 1984) due to the introduction of the Star Wars line, just as Castle was slipping into it's "mini-ice age." The only Castle I saw on the (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think it's quite plain and simple: back then, nobody needed the service packs. All you had to do is buy a set - at that time you would get a good set with a lot of good parts. Now, however, since the parts are ridiculous, there is a high (...) (23 years ago, 5-May-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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