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(...) cut (...) Some things are worth waithing for. This is one of them. Obviously there are reasons for keeping certain plans secret. They might want to time the release of the information to maximize it's effect on the market. There also might be (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) But they don't want it kept secret; if they did, they wouldn't have spilled anything to anyone. Suz hit it right on the head when she called it fan management. TLC wants to manufacture interest in something for which we have no solid (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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Kevin Loch wrote: <snip> (...) Well said! I would even go so far as to say that LD is the best thing going on in TLC right now. Even as TLC strays woefully away from the concepts which made the toy company the greatest in the world, LD is (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) For the record, I have never signed an NDA with LEGO and I have not had any private communication with LD in a long time. KL (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I largely agree with you and Suz about the intent of the summit. But I don't have a problem with LEGO manufacturing interest in their product. I see advertising (including posts on LUGNET, leaks, summits, etc.) as a very good thing. It gives (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Noted! I didn't mean to address that part specifically to you, but I was on a roll. Dave! (one may infer from the tone of my invective that I have likewise signed no NDA nor had private communication with TLC or any of its tentacles.) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I doubt LD is responsible for the current rumors. They probably haven't told anyone outside of LEGO what they are planning. They most certainly told everyone else inside LEGO because that is required for production (of anything) to occur. It (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:GCyzMv.InD@lugnet.com... (...) What? You mean like I wouldnt have dreamt of e-commerce? Or they they would sell bulk bricks, which I could have done 40 years ago? Or that they might sell trains, (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Does this mean that you know the details of "The July Surprise"? Or is whether or not you possess that secret also a secret? You can tell us - we won't spread it around. Promise! Greg (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I can't speak for the UK experience, but here in the US the effects have been incredibly cool. Absolutely amazing actually. Somewhere in my basement I have an unopened case of 5542's that I was keeping just for the clear train glass. Now I can (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I don't know anything about a "July Surprise". KL (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:GCz59A.A7o@lugnet.com... . (...) Except my point was that for a long time in Lego early history that did just that. Sold prime parts individually. Look at late 50's early 60's. I think relative (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Whoops. My mistake. I thought that since your original remark about some things being worth waiting for followed a quote about Jimmy Parks' posting that you were providing validation to his (non)announcement. Guess we'll all just have to (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) yes, for starters, I would certainly like to buy: macaroni (URL) and (URL) ridge and valley bricks (URL) [would these be considered bulk bricks?] (URL) of painful to search set ref 2xx sheree (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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