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(...) Seems like serious case of autodenasalation (Hi, Dave!) you've got there. Wouldn't it be a much better idea to have them sell out in 1 hour, showing that AFOLs are serious about their feelings about the old colors? (...) With good reason. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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(...) Well, I just ordered the light-grey bricks and -plates sets. Somehow I couldn't order more than 9 bricks sets :-( However, with the added plates set, I still got the reduced bulk prices. Now I'll just have to come up with a reason to explain (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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(...) You're serious? As I understand it, Jake and other folks went to a lot of trouble to get this to happen for the community, and you'd like people not to buy them? Well that's certainly one option, I guess, but it's not one I think is (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: 6 new bulk packs at S@H
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(...) Wow. You guys are SO fast! I just got final green light a few hours ago, and was working on an announcement! So here's the skinny: As announced at BrickFest PDX, there have been a limited number, one time only product run of the old colors. We (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX) !!
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(...) Hi! I just placed a Shop@Home order for one of the weekly specials and got the following information about these bulk packs from a very helpful sales representative named Sharon. (...) They are taking backorders now. They will pre-authorize (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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(...) I'm sure they will sell out relatively quickly as there will be a mad AFOL rush to buy "the last production run", but are those LSAH prices really competitive with say Bricklink? There is still a ton of the old colors available on BL right (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general)
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Anyone noticed that if ordered in bulk, these new items do not qualify for the bulk pricing that applies to most of the brick and plate bulk packs? I think the best suggestion is to vote with you wallet. Don't order any of these and let Lego (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Let's see how fast they sell out. Now *there's* a way to send a message. They seem to be available for preorder on S@H now. Vote with your pocketbooks, people. (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general)
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(...) --snipped images-- (...) I would guess that these are the six bulk packs that Jake mentioned at Brickfest PDX. He said the run would be 10,000 (?) each, no idea on price. And yes, these would be the old colors, but these would be the last time (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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2 things that I want to say. Firstly, the plate packs look good, only complaint is that it should have the 6x6 plate. The brick packs are also potentially usefull, only complaint here is the huge number of 2x2,2x3 and 2x4 bricks relative to (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Hey, Cool, I am glad there will be new items to buy. I highly doubt that they will be old colors. (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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Hi all, at (URL) www.brickset.com> are 6 new bulk packs shown which might be available form S@H soon: (URL) #10150 Bulk Bricks - Assorted Brown Plates (URL) #10149 Bulk Bricks - Assorted Dark Grey Plates (URL) #10148 Bulk Bricks - Assorted Light (...) (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !
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| | Re: How have the new colors affected your recent buying decisions?
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Hmmmm, wouldn't it be cool if US S@H offered the strap if you bought all 4 together <hint,hint>? (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (21 years ago, 18-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) sorry about that - I should have made it quite clear I was being sarcastic with a /enable sarcasm/ statement :D But thanks for the advice (pity I don't have a credit card yet :) ) I think I'll have to stick to Toy corner's inflated prices :) (...) (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) To Matt, You go to Lego.com to order Lego.(our email orders go to the UK (?)) Or you could go to Oz bricks. I think he has a phone order Service. Thanks, Teunis. (21 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Please email me directly to discuss. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Development (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) WHAT? aus actually HAS a phone in S@H service? Please, tell me its number! cheers, Matt (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Dear Lego (And by extension, Jake Mckee), I come from australia - adelaide to be precise. I am in high school, and our school is shortly going to be entering a team in the state youth parliament debates/forums. This is a great time to debate current (...) (21 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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(...) product is (...) Yes, for Australia S@H, our calls go to the UK, but the goods are shipped from Denmark. Kerry (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) How's this for European Shop At Home trivia: All calls that consumers make are charged at local rate (thus cheaper) but are all routed to the single contact centre here in the UK. In the call center, each country has a team responsible for it. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Metroliner 10001 (nearly) sold out! Was: What is the point of having shop @ home??
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Hi Eli, another point why you can get some sets in one shop and not in the other: The item might be sold out and discontinued. Yes, the Legend-Metroliner will be discontinued, when it is sold out and it will be sold out _VERY_ soon (at least in (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) That could be. But whenever I order from the dutch store, the package comes from Germany. But when I call, I get a belgian female on the phone. S@H is very international over here :-) /\/\ark "gonna order some basic grey bricks; they're still (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think you'll find the telephone calls are terminated in the UK, but product is actually shipped from Denmark. Jason Railton (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) See, that's funny, because when we here in Denmark buy from S-a-H, it's served out of Lego UK! I've tried to call TLC in Billund, but was re-routed to UK. Arne, Copenhagen (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah! dontcha just love it! (...) Last time I had a problem with S@H, they told me that LEGO from this side of the world (Australia atleast) came out of Denmark... but after solving a problem for me (which was their fault), they were quite (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) The latter For those that don't know Australia does not have a shop@home dept or wing of lego oz .But instead comes out ofthe US somewhere?? (...) Also a problem in Australia but it's the other way around ,an example is the santa fe loco it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's stores. There are at least two, possibly more (based on availability discrepencies, I believe they have at least three locations set up currently). North America is served out of Connecticut, and Australia (I believe) is served out of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I think its one issue that needs to be addressed. For Lego Shop @ Home to really be a global operation, you should be able to get something whether your "local" fulfillment center is out of stock, or doesn't carry that particular item yet. Of (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Hi, have just been to lego's online store to buy 2 metroliner sets with the extra tourist car add , it's called "metroliner kit". Now you can buy the extrta car on it's own as well as the metroliner on it's own,but when I what looking for these (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Status of Brad Justus?
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Steve Demlow wrote in message ... (...) TLC's (...) nine (...) concerned (...) See here: (URL) kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild of Bricksmiths(TM): (URL) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: The Knight Bus has arrived... but it's not all good news
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Jake, Would you PLEASE bring this up with the head office ASAP? I can't believe they would release a set with such *sloppy* color control. This is insane. Just how far is quality going to slip at TLG before someone wakes up? I was probably going to (...) (21 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | New LUGNET server hardware details
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So, we've purchased our cool new servers, from Cambridge, MA vendor "PCs for Everyone". Todd and I and several other friends have gotten systems from them before, and have been extremely pleased -- they know their stuff, including Linux, which is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.finance, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.org, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: New version of part 32064
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(...) My copies of Motor Movers (#4094) had BOTH variations of the Technic Brick 1x2 with Axlehole. Half of the bricks had the symmetric cross, as earlier versions had. The other half had the newer version, similar to the current Technic 1/2 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Taking LUGNET to the next level
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Chats with people at BrickFest PDX last weekend got me thinking a lot more about LUGNET and its role in the community. I've bounced some of my thoughts off of various people (including three people from LEGO) and responses varied from positive to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.org, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !!
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(...) Happy to do it! Oh, and there's more out there... Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Development (21 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct)
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On 11:46 06/02/2004, Bryan Kinkel wrote (...) Excellent way to spread the news... except for those strange sets with Doc Oak on ILTCO... I wonder if they are going to have any Doc OCK sets... :-) (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct)
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Looks like Jake seeded official set pictures to various groups: Harry Potter & Knights Kingdom at Classic-Castle.com (URL) at ILTCO (URL) at BrickSet (URL) - thanks for sharing these with the community. Bryan Kinkel (21 years ago, 6-Feb-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Status of Brad Justus?
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Mr. Justus (executive vice president, I believe?) was not mentioned in TLC's press release that discussed downsizing their executive team from 14 to nine people. Given all the hullabaloo over several topics of late, I am concerned that we haven't (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | LEGO Digital Designer 1.1 Available
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LEGO Digital Designer 1.1 has been released and you can download it from: (URL) allows you to select a brickset to work with, has numerous small improvements over 1.0 and includes a preferences tool. Try it out and let us know what you think. -- (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Lego to stop building Mindstorms?
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(...) I'm really disappointed that they aren't making one last push on the robotics front. What if they released a 'bare bones' set that contained one touch sensor, RCX, two motors, and enough parts to make the Acrobot? Could they price that under (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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