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When you say you replaced the wheels, are you referring to the whole kit 'n caboodle or just the axle? -Stefan- (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Jake/LD, It should be easy for LD to check who they sold problem batches to as most of them will have been sold by via mail order(?). I wonder if this can be sorted that way? ;) Scott A (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) And I was just going to suggest the 'flick' test... <grin> How about something simple like a couple of pieces of straight track, with some bracing so they fairly solid? Put two wheels together, put them on one end of the jig, and raise that (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) (the old saying: "If you want it done right, do it yourself"... springs to mind. This of course conflicts with "do what you do well, and let others do the rest") (...) Thanks for the update on this. I hope it turns out to be easy to resolve! (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) This is absolutely not true. These sets are very much meant to be run. They were never intended to be "display only" models. Whoever he talked to was misinformed. (...) this is the first that we have heard about it having problems. (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think you may be misunderstanding this. Troy asked what a 2556 was worth - this is not part of the allegedly overpriced Shell pack [s1252-6]. Larry stated that he had paid $20 for his... which is not too far away from the Bricklink average (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Thanks, that's good to hear. And wow... it's only Wednesday... talk about a rainy morning! Jake --- Jake McKee Senior Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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"Harvey Henkelman" <Ferroequus@webtv.net> wrote in message news:H42q1E.1qM@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] But they really didn't go out of business. They simply reorganized under Chapter 11 as ATA (American Trans Air or (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I for one think you guys do a great job (especially considering some of the hoops you sometimes need to jump through to get things done). But are you sure it's Thursday? 8-) -H. (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) To tack on a few thoughts to this discussion, I would like to add that these sets were much more time consuming to get a hold of than standard retail assortment sets. Because we had so many requests for these sets, we went out of our way to (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Yeah, some of my favorites too! (...) Well, this isn't actually the first thing we have done like this. There have been a number of promotional items over the years that S@H has picked up. Jake --- Jake McKee Senior Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Jake & All, (...) Thanks, we appreciate it! These sets are probably some of the best LEGO Town sets that LEGO has made recently, traditional cars, great parts, and the sets are great just by themeselves. Not that I like Shell Stations or anything! (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) >Ben Hmmm, this sounds very, VERY bad! A consumer Service Department is meant to provide SERVICE !! Bad parts are bad parts, and there should only ONE PROPER ANSWER from a service employee: 'Sorry, of course w'll replace your bad Legos' (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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For a long time, I resisted buying any of the Super Chief sets. The models DO look a little top-heavy, and LEGO® has slipped on their quality control like never before seen in their history. People say that LEGO® is too expensive, and that they (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's shocking! They're obviously meant as running models because grey motor side-bars are included in the set! Why would there be alternate parts and instructions for motorising and adding rail-powered lights to a display-only set? They may (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Dear Jake, a German Co-AFOL has had trouble with the Santa Fe train as well. He called the consumer service for replacement wheel sets and got informed the Super Chief was not meant as a train set, but as a display set for the shelf only. So (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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I have two Santa Fe engines and a B Unit I built to go with them. I have two moters one on each of the A units. I too had a hard time with the SF engines pulling more then 10 cars. It always seemed to bog down in the turns. Recently I had all my (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I agree with that! And I bought all of the newer cars (10013/14/15/16/17) and buy just making a very simple train with them + 1 loc, it has a very hard time on curves and not fast on a straight track. I never had that problem with all the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Are you asking that LD match Tuesday morning pricing at the outset? That's not typically the pricing model used, rather LD seems to charge full retail. That the set went for 20 at Tuesday Morning argues that it's priced correctly at LD, at (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I will check tomorrow, but I am pretty sure that they are just not available yet. Jake --- Jake McKee Senior Producer LEGO Direct (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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I did a couple searches, and didn't see this mentioned anywhere, so I thought I'd post an FYI for the LEGO Direct folks... in case it was an oversight. On page 3 of the Holiday 2002 catalog there is something called the 'Holiday Kit'. Unfortunately (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Jake & All, (...) Indeed. Are these going to become available to people eventually, or are they already out of stock? I am getting a Not Available when I view the KS1256. Scott Sanburn -- Member, MichLUG (URL) Webpage: (URL) Webpages: (URL) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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I paid maybe $20 for this set. I actually think it was cheaper. Tuesday morning had them. (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Are they really anymore expensive than when they were at the Shell stations? All but the big one seem to be in line with what I expect LEGO sets to sell for based on the cost / piece ratio. Granted, I'd like them cheaper, but i don't think that is (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) On the "high" price issue... don't forget that Shell was originally giving these out with certain purchases, and/or subsidizing the costs to make them cheap for the casual gas station consumer. I didn't think about this myself until I asked (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Hello, Maby I have an explenation. I was in Legoland Billund today. They had a factory sale with some discontinued sets. There vere a lot of Duplo trains. Both tracks and whole trainsets. Couldn't it be these trains lego was going to "ditch"? Just a (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) This link is easier to work with: (URL) posting links to shop@home, the way to get a simple link like that is to enter the set number into the set lookup box at the bottom of the left nav bar. *NOT* the search at the top of the page. I think (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> wrote in message news:H3zu1H.Mpy@lugnet.com... (...) these (...) will (...) $139.99 Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring.com (URL) - North Carolina LEGO Train Club (URL) - Carolina Train Builders (URL) - (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) By comparison, how much were S@H selling them for? Kerry (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Very curious! When you type these item numbers (10050, 10067) in the search-by-item-number box at the bottom of the S@H page, it finds them! When you type the same item numbers into the general search box at the top right, it doesn't find (...) (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) <snip> (...) Thanks for the report. I'm more than happy to wait a bit longer to save a bit of money (or to get more LEGO)... I've got quite a few things on the list - must make an order soon ;-). Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Fellow LUGnet Ozzies (Oy! Oy! Oy!), Just to let you know the BUGS placed our S@H order on Sunday 29 Sept using the new Regular Shipping option. It was a large order and the Regular Shipping cost was $40 (the maximum). If we had used Express Shipping (...) (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Nice! Lots of cool stuff that I would buy multiples of if I could get some 6x8 (or similar sized) plates. (I don't even care what color they are at this point!) All those awesome bulk packs, but what is the point when I can not fully utilize (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) What about breaking away from the Microsoft world and going open source with a MySQL backend? It is cheap. $.02 Jude XFUT .publish (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Dunno what that's all about, but all I can think of is that the MS Access [1] back end is not able to handle the number of concurrent connections, judging by the System.Data.OleDb.Ol...bException error. Any .NET experts in the house?? I tried (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I just tried looking, and got the following. Benjamin Whytcross Server Error in '/' Application. ---...--- Unspecified error Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Huw Millington" <hmillington@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:H3wyMn.AGC@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) Very odd error indeed, I am unable to open BrickSet with IE however I CAN open it with Adobe Acrobat web capture. Mike -- Mike Walsh - (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"M. Moolhuysen" <moom@nospam-chello.nl> wrote in message news:H3wxLo.8HC@lugnet.com... (...) Sorry to hear some of you are having connection/.NET problems. Every time I have checked, the site has been working, so I can't see what the problem is/was (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Yes, www.brickset.com is definitly very much down, and do sentry-go of curiosity. With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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YIKES!!! Lucky you! Gary "Maggie Cambron" <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:H3vzF2.20x@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) too. (...) these (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic, lugnet.market.shopping)
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