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Re: New Holidays site launches!
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:54:11 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Mike Walsh writes:
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> "Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message
> news:GL0Du8.545@lugnet.com...
> > (Please cross-post as is appropriate. Thanks!)
> >
> > Greetings once again!
> >
> > I just wanted to let you all know that we have launched our new Holidays
> > site at:
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> > www.LEGO.com/holidays
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> > Currently there is several Holiday themed building instructions up with
> > several more coming soon!
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> > Check it out!
> >
> > Jake
> >
> > ---
> > Jake McKee
> > Sr. Producer
> > LEGO Direct
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> Jake -
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> While I think it is great that you all are doing this, do you check to see
> if the parts in the instructions are readily available?
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> For example, the 2x2 corner plate in the tree in green is only available in
> the 3724 Dragon sculpture. The 4x4 white radar dish is only available
> (currently) in the 4120 Creator Tub. The green 1x10 only appeared in the
> 8479 Barcode Mult-Set. The cost to build one tree (if you can even find a
> 8479 set anymore) is prohibitive.
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> If these parts are going to be available in bulk anytime soon then my
> complaint will be retracted, otherwise the tree (I didn't investigate any of
> the others) is too expensive to build to be practical and I think you are
> doing a disservice to your customers.
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> For those of us who are educated about your product line we know to get
> around some of these limitations or where to find some of these elements on
> the secondary market. What are the 99.9% of your customers who don't know
> about Brickbay et. al. supposed to do?
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> Mike
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>
> --
> Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
> http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nclug.net/ctb - Carolina Train Builders
> http://www.brickbay.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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> Mike
Yeh, and those 1x1 white tiles aren't that easy to get either! You'd think
that Lego would have checked that out before posting those instructions!
Or maybe they just wanted to surprise us with some dynamite service packs or
bulk brick options!
...still dreamin',
Tom
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| "Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:GL0Du8.545@lugnet.com... (...) Jake - While I think it is great that you all are doing this, do you check to see if the parts in the instructions are readily available? For example, (...) (23 years ago, 10-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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