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| Slopes and inverse slopes aren't "basic" bricks, though ;-) I consider them essential, especially corner slopes and INVERSE corner slopes (too dang hard to get in sets these days). (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Will you offer superceded parts such as 12V conductor rails which require metals parts. (...) What about parts which have had their moulds modified such as the 12V grey plastic rail which used to have holes for the sleepers (ties) but these (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Do you have rough pricing? Eg for a 2x4 red brick? Will pricing involve a sliding scale? Eg, if there are any economies of scale for shipping out 1000 same-type elements to one person, rather than shipping 100 same-type elements to 10 people.. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct) !
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| Firstly, Having been punished by the rating system I apologise for the waste of space and hope this post helps clarify the points I (and others) wished to make in order to help you (The LEGO company) offer me (a customer) better services and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) That's true - if and only if you are looking for multiple colors. The sales of large single-color lots on places like eBay show that there's a definite market for this sort of thing. I ran out of black 1x bricks while building my latest MOC (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| Brad Justus wrote: snip... (...) Just to clarify if I have this right, LD will require that say 10K of a certain brick must be ordered from al combine buyers, but an individual buyer may order as few as 50-100? Please don't tell me I'm confused. :) (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Add Marion Helmets, maybe in gray, and Shako<?> hats to the list. Masts in brown? (...) But people will get those ridiculous prices, maybe for quite a while. Many buyers just don't have the information about LD and S@H they need to avoid being (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I think that being able to get individual minifigs wont happen: 1.people wont have as much incentive to buy the sets 2.it would cost a fortune however being aboe to order parts, like the grey kepi hat or the motorcycle/space helement will (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Personally, I'd like to see all of the rarest pieces duplicated perfectly in enormous mass. My NLS is into Barbie Dolls. The gouging and fabricated-"rare" stuff is all over the place. And Mattel does all sorts of things which make it easy to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:49:04 GMT, Ice <icestorm@inwave.com> wrote: SNIP (...) Really if we get a chance at the cool old pieces or designs I don't care a SINGLE WHIT! about collectability. If some person selling stuff on ebay doesn't make as much (...) (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I spend more on new store-bought sets than those old sets on Ebay, but I should explain in detail. I buy the new sets when they are on sale or deep discount. (judging from the shelves, S@H will be offering Town Jr. and Rock Raider sets for (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| Maybe, just maybe they've finally realised that there ARE people who live outside the US and are trying to put something together to assist these people to have access to Lego Direct. Alternatively, they may have decided to postpone release until (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| Attn: Lugnet readers, Lego Media, Lego Futura, Lego Direct, Mr B Justus, Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to make the following suggestions for new products. It should be noted that some of these may already have been suggested by Lugnet readers. I (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.faq, Frank Filz writes: [...] (...) Hey! this seems like serioiusly a resonable thing to ask LD for, in connection with ordering elements. I wonder if they've got anything prepared for online color selection. (?) So many companies provide (...) (24 years ago, 29-May-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) <snipped discussion of prices> (...) I think that our orders will speak for themselves. I don't see LDirect selling very many sets of red bricks at those prices, not when they're cheaper in bucket sets. Perhaps not even white or black. So, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) sumbitting requests for elements that I assume will be standard. For example, I could use a few hundred 1x1 plates in each of the standard colors. If we go by what's available in sets, these won't be common or standard. I'd sure like to know! (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| This is to Brad. Why is Lego not making pneumatics. I ordered to sets of hoses, switches, and cylinders and only got the cylinders. Is the hydraulics taking over? If they are I wish they would make cylinders you can control like the pneumatics. Adam (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) (Jeff removed the link out of courtesy to Lego) What sets feature those 1x4x6 doors? I don't think I own any of them (but I will soon!) Dave! (24 years ago, 14-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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