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Re: Lego Parts
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:00:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Tim Courtney writes:
> "Nick Randal" <dnr360@netzero.net> wrote in message
> news:GEtstr.AI9@lugnet.com...
> > Hello everyone. I am new to posting at Lugnet so if this has been discussed
> > before forgive me. I just want to know why Lego does not sell
> > specific, individual parts. The Bulk Ordering in Shop-at-home
> > is great but why can't Lego take it a step further and let us choose
> > the parts we need/want?
> > Its fine if you have sets that are missing parts and you want them
> > replaced but what if I want 100 1x1 tiles or what have you?
> > Shouldn't Lego cater to the demand?
>
> Hi Nick, welcome to Lugnet!
>
> *sigh* :)
>
> This has been discussed at length here on Lugnet and on RTL (rec.toys.lego) for
> years. To answer your question, I'll try to be as brief as I can, but because
> I'm very interested in the issue, I might ramble.
>
> The biggest reason (that I gather) why LEGO does not sell individual parts is
> based on how they manufacture and store parts themselves internally. With the
> way their production runs are set up and how they package sets, it would be very
> hard to fulfill individual orders of this nature. Also, I don't believe the
> demand is high enough for them to spend the money to develop facilities which
> would make this possible on a large scale.
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> Model shops and internal departments at LEGO order individual parts from the
> factory, but, believe it or not, they're limited on what they can order. Their
> orders have to center around when a certain part is molded so they know it will
> be in stock, and sometimes they are limited by colors for certain reasons
> (possibly including what type of plastic is used for what part, the cost or
> availability of colored pellets, etc).
>
> That's the shortest answer I can come up with. I moved the thread over to
> lego.direct so that any possible discussion of bulk bricks falls in the
> appropriate place :-)
>
> -Tim
Thanks Tim, for the welcome and the explanation.
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