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(...) I think it's probably decided on a per country basis, taking into account local taxes, shipping costs and pricing habits (.99 is much more common in Germany than France, for example). Jürgen (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct)
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After the introduction of the new European currency three days ago, I was very curious about what would happen to S@H's prices in the euro-zone. What now follows are my findings (which are by no means scientific - it just illustrates how weird their (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.be, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.lu, lugnet.loc.ie, lugnet.loc.fr, lugnet.loc.fi, lugnet.loc.at)
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| | Re: Shop At Home catalog Engine Shed
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(...) at (...) wheel, (...) right (...) If it helps: I ask, I even beg for big train wheels! (Smaller than 396 ones, bigger than 7750 ones.) And please add a hole for connecting rods and please make them in red and black.... To syncronise them (left (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LEGO direct query of the week
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(...) <snips> (...) Let me know when *that* set comes out ;) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes, but there are 2 teams in the set, and it does say that you can turn "YOUR SQUAD" into the US team, not that you can turn one team into the US team...so I still believe it reads as though there will be an Australian team in the set if I (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Shop At Home catalog Engine Shed
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(...) Sounds Good--excellent suggestion. My favorite minfig torso has always been the blue-collar worker guy with 2 breast pockets --> (URL) this minifig in Green, Red, Black, Dark Gray, etc. would result in me buying many, many minifig packs. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Delivery criticism!
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I'm sorry I have to mention this thing here, but after several bad and unsuccessfull deliveries I have enough! As most of you might know I'm a fan of Lego and it's products. I also like what's available from the Lego Online Shop. There are many (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Well, I have to grumble... I don't do it often, and frankly, I'm of the opinion that Lego Direct has been doing an excellent job overall. I haven't spent so much on Lego in all the years (32) I've been playing/collecting it as I have since (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Shop At Home catalog Engine Shed
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(...) Bert, this is generally true of _ALL_ items listed in the Shop@Home Catalogs. The January catalog is historically brief and a lot of items are not pictured but they are still available. In the way of a shopping tip: When planning your next S@H (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: announcing the "My Own Creation" series
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(...) Pedro, This is just a guess based on my own experience dealing with distributors.... I think the reason the price is so great (only $40.00) is because these won't be available in the stores! Retail chains and and distribution add *huge* (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Shop At Home catalog Engine Shed
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I Agree. I would really like to see Conductor Charlie and Engineer Max minifigs. And how about some passenger minifigs with back packs and lugguage, and please don't forget some female minifigs - very important. While I'm at it, how about a historic (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sorry, Ffestiniog and Tal-y-lyn railways. (I just didn't want to have to look up the proper welsh spellings...I guess I was expecting too much by using the common initials, like if I had used ATSF or BN or SP or suchlike :) (...) So would I. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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More thoughts on a train mini-figure pack - - I could see the track workers set being comprised of an engineer, a ticket checker and four construction worker types. - For more play value, include a hand car or other mini-maintenance vehicle that can (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Sorry, what's "FR or TR"??? If *I* don't know what it is, it may not have much draw to US train fans as none of them will know either. May do well with the subset of UK train fans who know Wales, though. (...) Those are hard, minifig pack is (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) What would be really neat would be a working party like some from FR or TR in Wales in the 50's. School Jackets and all... I'd like to see some older looking (historic) minifig sets. The stuff that was faked up for the April Fools joke would (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Yes! that would be great.... and if you do this please don't make them ultramodern. Make their cloting a bit more generic so it fits with almost any era.. No silver shades or safety stripes. (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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Jake, I really enjoyed the train yard shot in the latest Shop at Home catalog. For some reason, it reminded me of the photos on the cover and inside the 1980 European Lego Train catalog. (See cover at (URL) compare with (URL) ) This is the catalog (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Now I find out! I wonder what other unadvertised service packs and bulk element packs are out there. Bert (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Bert Waters" <lhwaters@hsc.vcu.edu> wrote in message news:GpDGLo.n2t@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) apiece (...) this (...) I don't think it is necessarily a "re-introduction" of 5216, to the best of my knowledge they have never (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I was happy to see the reintroduction of the Assorted Roof Tiles (5216) at $4.99 in the new catalog. My next order will include at least 6 of these packs. I will purchase at least 15 bulk element packs to get the extra 15% discount that makes (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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