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  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) I asked what that reason was (for not shipping outside territories) and got the answer at the top from Tomas Clark, basically, "that's not the way we do things", which is no answer at all as far as I'm concerned. I got a more detailed answer (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
WOW! This is Fantastic! It's exactly what I've wished the lego.com site would be! Excellent work! I love the interview with part designer; please continue this series, and try to go into more detail on why parts fit together in different ways and (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) Well said. I get grouchy too. I wonder how many people who wanted to pay shipping costs would be willing to pay the extra costs of the out of band processing too. Here's a slightly relevant factoid.. the average US company pays well north of (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) Simple answer: It breaks the process, and it's unnecessary duplication. (more complex) 99% of the time, S@H Europe is dealing with Europeans who want things delivered to Europe. Ditto the other distribution centers. Because they spend 99% of (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
SNIP! You might as well through raw meat to dogs, it'd be (...) SNIP! I meant "throw". Really. Aaron (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
In lugnet.lego.direct, Marc Nelson, Jr. writes: <snip> Just do what I've done and give up. Lose faith in Lego being a company about toys, values, or children being creative. They are merely a corporation producing a product for consumption. They've (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) Understandable, to be sure. But, remember that we are a bunch of junkies for LEGO product. Posts revealing "Holy Grail" material of sorts drives us stark-raving-CRAZY!!!!! You might as well through raw meat to dogs, it'd be the same (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) Indeed... Our Intellectual Property policy precludes us from signing NDA's with TLC. This is by design, for although we document as much as we can think of, there are still always things we've talked about but haven't documented yet publicly (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
I don't have any problems running netscape on the site, everything seemed to come up fine for me. Slower than molasses in sub-zero winter... though it looked ok.. Tamy (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #1 (What's the deal, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) Marc, I apologize in advance. My posting yesterday obviously left some unanswered questions. Your message actually touches on two different points that might seem related, but I want to address them separately. Point 1: Why does Shop At Home (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  RE: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
(...) AFAIK, background-repeat is part of the W3C CSS1 specifications, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it seems to work in NS4.7[1] as long as stylesheets are turned on. The problem lies in the BODY tag. If CSS is turned off, the browser reads: <body (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
(...) Could be - I know enough about HTML to do simple stuff, but I've never gone beyond that. I wonder if the "background-repeat" setting is a new extension, and perhaps even an IE-specific one? Some old "intro-to-HTML" stuff I've got lists many (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
(...) Wow i didn't see that! i was thinking about the 18 trans. colors, i have close to 18 colors. Josh (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
(...) Your snapshot (...) don't see anything like your snapshot. I only see the blue background once on the title bar. The rest of the page has a white background. In your snapshot you can even see where the image ends and a repeat of it starts... I (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section
 
(...) Hmm. I've always had Stylesheets turned on, since, as far as I know, they are not a security problem. I tried visiting the same page with them turned off and it is indeed different. The main problem that I see is the darkness of the background (...) (23 years ago, 6-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
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)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) 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)
 
  Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
 
(...) ===...=== 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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