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Subject: 
Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
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lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle
Date: 
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 15:32:56 GMT
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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Christian Gemünden writes:
Hi Bionicle Fans out there,

hopefully someone at LEGO Direct will read this too and can clarify the • things.
LEGO, I'd really like to get some answers on these - I know someone is
listening (as LEGO seems to be very concerned about their Bionicle theme) so
get anyone at LEGO Direct behind the screen and explain the following:

- How does it come that LEGO only sells 48 different masks rather than 72 as
announced? (even more than 144 combinations are possible anyway)
- Why are more than 30% of all masks black and six other colours missing
completely? (as well as missing shapes)
- Why were the masks Matatu and Ruru produced in other colours than shown on
the bag? (for example no green Ruru should be available according to the bags)
- How can it be that I already have ten copies of one certain mask, but zero
copies of another one? (that's anything  but randomly assorted)
- Will we ever see the 'unknown' type of mask that is shown right in the
middle of all masks ?

I think it's really a disgrace to LEGO to start such a lousy marketing
strategy. Even the kids will soon find out that they were leg-pulled and
LEGO never produced all the masks they show on the bags. Of course - once
the kids find out that they were cheated, then it'll be too late for them as
they've already spent all their money on the Bionicle stuff. However, a very
bad taste of disappointment about the LEGO brand will stay in their minds! I
don't think they'll buy LEGO any time soon again. What a stupid dirty trick
LEGO is playing on them!

Product #8530 totally sucks - play well!

Bye, Christian --- xTIAN.
--------------------------------------------------
Lugnet Member #479 -- The World is full of AFOLs !
mail: xtian@brickmaster.de web: www.brickmaster.de


Hear the alarm bells TLC!

Christian has been the biggest Lego Fan on earth when I first got in touch with
him. While most AFOL people are just fans of Lego products (basically the good
ones from the past, hehe), Christian has really been a Fan of the Lego company
and ALL its products.

Now read his new opinion about 2001 Lego sets and the behaviour of TLC. I think
this is even more concerning than lots of other news I hear now and then.

Kind Regards,

Ben
(Lugnet Member 448)

"Playmobil produces the better Legos today!"

If you don't believe, take a look at this loussy brick quality:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=28411



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  Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
 
(...) how the quality of the Lego brick is way down. Anyone that has old Lego can put it sid by side with the new ones and can see that there are huge differences in the quality. Here are a few: 1. The old Lego were much brighter and had a better (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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