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Subject: 
Re: 8431 Sold Out -- "DISCONTINUED", says SAH!!!
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Date: 
Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:58:42 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, John Herre writes:
8464, the re-release of 8459 Pneumatic Front-End Loader, started shipping
September 2001, and was sold out in the US before the end of November 2001.

7152, a re-release of Star Wars set 7150 TIE Fighter and Y-Wing, started
shipping late September 2002, and sold out last month.

I thought one of the differences between the classics re-releases and legends
re-releases is that the classics will only be available for short time.
Brad Justus wrote, in http://news.lugnet.com/lego/announce/?n=38
  "To answer in advance a couple of questions which I suspect may arise: LEGO
  Legends are different from the "classic" reissues which were announced a
  couple of weeks ago. Those classics are not intended to be a long-running
  series, whereas LEGO Legends is."

Thanks John.  Now I feel dumb.  I should have paid closer attention to Brad
Justus' post which I know I read way back when.  I guess this is why I was
the only one surprised by this.  My mistake.  Next time I'll know better and
order a classic I want as soon as it comes out.

-Paul


PS: To LEGO Direct, despite my obvious disappointment about missing this
one, I'm very happy that you have done these classics re-releases even if
they're just available for a short time. Thanks and I hope you keep doing them!



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  Re: 8431 Sold Out -- "DISCONTINUED", backorders in USA!
 
(...) Hi All, If you look on SAH, 8431 now says "Backorders Accepted, will ship by 21 Feb 2003" for USA. Another AFOL alerted me about the 8431 backorder and said that he already ordered it and it shipped the next day! To be honest, I hesitated in (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.technic)

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  Re: 8431 Sold Out -- "DISCONTINUED", says SAH!!!
 
(...) 8464, the re-release of 8459 Pneumatic Front-End Loader, started shipping September 2001, and was sold out in the US before the end of November 2001. 7152, a re-release of Star Wars set 7150 TIE Fighter and Y-Wing, started shipping late (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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