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I would say that until bulk ordering is up and going full speed we need the parts packs. At the moment the parts packs are offering pieces (doors, windows, minifig accessories, corner roof pieces, a larger selection of plates) that are not available (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Custom Kits & Communications
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(...) Thanks James, I hadn't been there before. <ICS> (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Custom MOC kits (was: Re: Brickmania calls it quits on custom model kits)
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(...) A fair number of *AFOLs* liked them, at a *huge* discount. That's bad for TLC one of two ways: If we're a significant part of the market, make us sets we want to buy at full price and don't take the hit on margins, because we're big enough to (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Of course, flops can even depend to some extent on whether the set will make it as a parts pack, after people have said they don't want to buy it! ;-) For those in the USA and other high-usage LEGO areas, there are also the sets that are not very (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) For the record, I dispute that TLC is "great at designing sets which appeal to kids or JFOLs". I think we all can recite a significant list of recent designs that, based on shelf dwell time, appear to be flops. If we wanted to, but I don't (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Right. And this is because everyone loves Rock Raiders, the new and vastly overpriced AND vastly juniorized town sets, arctic, castle, etc? Guess again. I am not touching that large castle set except at deep discount. In fact, I won't touch (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I don't really consider discounted sets as any sort of competition for bulk. In part, I think that what we are seeing is a bubble which is going to burst. To some extent, right now we are flushing out a bunch of excess, poorly distributed (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Phone conversation -- January, I believe. No request, explicit or implicit, to keep the information private. I just remembered it yesterday. It's not a new or novel idea, so it didn't stand out at the time. (...) I just found a sheet of paper (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I hesitate to agree with your opinion on the matter, John. I'd be more impressed if the current bulk orders were more compelling in terms of items offered, quantities available, and price. I liked the tiles, the small window, and the small (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I certainly can't, since that's all I know, and I don't know anything else that I can't pass along (I haven't signed any non-disclosure agreements and haven't been given any private or secret or sensitive information except one thing from a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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