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In lugnet.lego.direct, Alexander Farlie wrote: ***big snip*** (...) On the plus side, the auction ended without a bid. I only glanced at it, so I don't know if it was terminated by the eBay powers-that-be, or if it truly lapsed without interest. (...) (17 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I've email Lego about this several times. They don't seem to care. (17 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(Note to Moderators, If this post is not appropriate please fell free to remove it.) Dear TLG, I note the following EBAY auction: (URL) seller claims: "THIS DISC IS NOT AN UNAUTHORISED COPY.THE COPYRIGHT OF THE CONTENT IS EITHER, OWNED BY THE (...) (17 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have one other option left. If that one brings no results, I think I'll just follow your suggestion. Thanks, Maarten (17 years ago, 31-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) In what capacity are you looking to contact them? These days, there's a very wide variety of ways to contact Lego-- I dunno if they would have a "general contact" e-mail address. I guess one way of going about it would be to e-mail Steve Witt (...) (17 years ago, 22-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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In August 2004, I asked for an e-mail address to contact TLC. I asked this in LegoLand Billund (the parks weren't sold at the time). The e-mail address didn't work. Last month, I was back in Billund. I mentioned this and asked for a new e-mail (...) (17 years ago, 22-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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www.bricklink.com or www.ebay.com (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hi Jordan, After an attic sort out we've been rebuilding all our lego to sell on ebay or similar (my daughter discovered her grown up brother's collection and has pursuaded him to sell to buy Playmobil). We have quite a lot, including a (...) (17 years ago, 18-May-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think the catch was that while AFOLs were quick to jump at the chance to own one of these sets, they were NOT so quick to buy *more* of these sets. It seems as though a lot of AFOLs who owned the original set were passing up the opportunity (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Hi Damon, I enjoyed reading your post and share many of the same sentiments. I recall LEGO saying somewhere that generally speaking, sets re-released as Legends do not sell very well. This seems odd to me, since I would jump at the chance to (...) (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Dear Lego Direct; With the introduction of the Lego Factory/Pick a Brick site you have given to us a huge resourse. Thank you. There are some items that I, personally, would love to see reintoroduced to the Pick a Brick assortment. I understand that (...) (17 years ago, 29-Apr-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I'm caught with a older operating system, too. I just realized that I won't be able to run LDD and see any of the instructions. This won't prevent me from buying the hobby train set, but it will prevent me from buying any other set with LDD (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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(...) While LDD 2 does have a HTML export, it has a couple of drawbacks: It produces fairly low-res images The images are all from the same viewpoint (wherever you're viewing from in LDD when you export I think) The images are clipped if the (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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I have reported this situation to a contact within LEGO CAnada, and hopefully they can work it up the chain/get someone to quickly create PDFs, surely LDD 2.0 can be used to just generate a printable version of the instructions. Heck I'd do it (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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(...) I completely agree with the above statement. I can NOT run LDD on my computer due to its operating system. This problem has kept me from buying sets before and will likely again unless an alternate format for instructions is implemented for at (...) (17 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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As I have (URL) on my blog>, I have been unable to get LDD2 running on my PC, and (URL) I'm not alone>. This means when I buy this set, I will not be able to view instructions for the 29 alternate models. I request that TLC please provide these (...) (17 years ago, 26-Mar-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !
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(...) Wait a minute....you turned down over 2,500 LEGO pieces...because it was the wrong scale...and then you made your Mom go through the hassle of returning the set??? Dude, let me trade one of my Christmas presents for it - oh, wait, I liked (...) (17 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Well said. Jude (17 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) STFS (17 years ago, 11-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I agree fully. My nephews picked out a couple small Bionicle sets, which I'm not at all interested in, for me this year (and last year actually), but I accepted them with a smile and a thanks. I didn't even return them to the store. To do (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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ROTFLMAO (17 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) I think the claim from Lego that the set had been opened is also a possible cause for complaint. But while it may not have been opened by Gregory or his mother, you never know what happened to the package on the return trip. Otherwise, I (...) (17 years ago, 10-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) Seems to me they were acting entirely in accord with their return policy. Always read the fine print - (URL) "Custom items such as LEGO Factory models and Pick A Brick orders cannot be returned or exchanged." I guess it could be argued that (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) Actually according to (URL): "Also, LEGO direct-to-consumer (Shop at Home) sales division announced a partnership with PFSweb Inc. to fill Internet orders of Lego products from its catalog and online store, according to a statement in December (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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(...) I think you missed the real point. It wasn't the price per piece that he was dissatisfed with. It was the set. Remember, not everyone who likes LEGO builds MOCs. The first thing I noticed was that his mother didn't notice the scale. Something (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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LOL (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) I fail to see the humor in this. Sorry. (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Pardon my naivety, but at 2,776 (per the box top) pieces, (URL) set 5526> seems to be a fairly decent way to get a variety of legos at an average of $0.047 per peice even if you don't want to build the set using Lego's (online only) (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !
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LOL (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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I wanted to share my extreme displeasure with the Lego Shop at Home service. My mother, knowing what a big fan of Lego I was, decided to surprise me with a set this Christmas, the Lego Factory set 5526. At the time she didn't realize that it was not (...) (17 years ago, 9-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) This looks pretty good, and I hope it's going to expand. I did send them a message though that the link to "Other users' train designs" gives some pretty poor results. A lot of the good stuff has dropped off the end. They need to link to 'Cool (...) (18 years ago, 20-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Juergen Stuber" <juergen@jstuber.net> wrote in message news:87bqmngteb.fsf@...ber.net... (...) Thanks, Jurgen! But indeed I had noticed there isn't a power pack available from S@H site for Australia! (...) Interesting to note, so if anyone has it (...) (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Sure, I'm just trying to be helpful. When I bought my battery packs in Oberhausen I didn't know whether I could use the train transformer, and neither did the shop staff (they didn't have the transformer in stock). Later at home I found out it (...) (18 years ago, 1-Dec-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) That is true, but I think this is more about the fact that the standard train transformer is not available from S@H (at least not to Australia), so anyone reading the Battery information and not knowing what the standard train transformer is (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Hi Geoffrey, (...) you can use the standard train transformer. Jürgen (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(URL) is the Lithium Battery for Mindstorms NXT - unfortunately, while the S@H page clearly states that you require the additional purchase of #9833 Transformer Pack sold separately, there is no way to buy this with the 9798 kit shown on S@H site. (...) (18 years ago, 30-Nov-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Starting yesterday, Shop@Home is selling the train in European countries. Change 'country' (top-left) in the S@H site, and check it out. On the details page they also mention a K101== nr., regarding a set with 9V (!) track and motor! Usually (...) (18 years ago, 26-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I guess it should reach *every* european countries soon as the sets available thru SaH for France. Eric Borrega from FreeLUG has shot some pictures : 7898 : (URL) : (URL) Didier (...) (18 years ago, 25-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Full access appears to have been restored, however I still have no information on what the issue was, or whether my scanning script was to blame, so I will not be adding any new instructions until this has been clarified - I don't want access (...) (18 years ago, 18-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Ross Crawford" <ross.{mylastname}@gmail.com> wrote in message news:J5pK1q.o44@lugnet.com... (...) OK, I went, I complained. Buth then suddenly one download worked for me. I did it again, it failed. So, having now spent a number of minutes (...) (18 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.au)
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