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(...) But they don't want it kept secret; if they did, they wouldn't have spilled anything to anyone. Suz hit it right on the head when she called it fan management. TLC wants to manufacture interest in something for which we have no solid (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I thought there were more like 120 colors. Maybe it's 84 currently used. Obviously most of them are for the model shop. Just as well. I don't think my sorting system could handle 84 colors. KL (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Nice job! I especially like the Auto Chassis history. That is my favorite progression because each model is an improvement from the previous (and the original was a masterpiece in it's time). I bet we won't be seeing a police station evolution (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) cut (...) Some things are worth waithing for. This is one of them. Obviously there are reasons for keeping certain plans secret. They might want to time the release of the information to maximize it's effect on the market. There also might be (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Exactly! On one hand there is the official promotion of Lego as a great tool for the expression of and the development of a person's imagination. TLC is happy to hold up talented, creative, successful individuals as role models who talk about (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) If it helps any, I spoke with customer service and the annoymous rep told me that the Castle System has been a top producer (and VERY popular) for them for some time, and that it is highly likely that the US/general market will see some nice (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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....Beautiful! Nice looking site. Cant wait to dive in deeper :-) (...) --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com www.sitcatsit.com <-- a guy and his cat www.wildlink.com <-- the wildlinks < INSERT HUMOROUS TAGLINE HERE > (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) To my mind, TLC should not be stressing the uniqueness of items at all -- but rather their modularity and ability to be used interchangably in an overall systematic scheme of a construction toy. My problem is that they claim to be doing one (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Marc, I'm getting bored now. On Mon, 7 May 2001, Marc Nelson Jr. (<GCyJ93.Cuy@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:51:03 (...) TLC doesn't have to tell you anything. Your question is like me asking you how you clean your teeth. It's just a thing you do. As a (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) So... Efficient: UK S@H pays someone to pull a bunch of service packs and box them up for shipment to the U.S. LEGO pays for these things to be shipped over to Connecticut. U.S. S@H pays someone to receive the shipment, enter it into the (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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| | Re: Bad Policy #1 (What's the deal, LEGO Direct?)
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(...) 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)
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