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Re: Read Sales in the Subset
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Thu, 15 Jul 2004 07:20:04 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:
   In lugnet.loc.au, Pete White wrote:
   In lugnet.loc.au, Michael Dallaston wrote:
  
Not from K or W, but I recently got a 4403 Airblazers. Beeyotiful set, good to see Lego’s still got it (or at least had it last year).

Looks to have great parts, 16 castle windows :^) , only 4 lattices :^(

   And it has exactly one blue piece. Kerry is vindicated, it seems.

That is just to annoy Richie.

I’ve been quietly fuming ever since I read Michael’s post. A blue piece!? How could they!? Don’t they undertstand their fan base!?

No wonder it’s called blue.

I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I’m certainly going to be buying less of their blue product in future!

Cheers

Richie (waiting for someone to pounce on this post and direct it to .color).

;-)

To be fair, it is one of these:



Not the most useful piece ever made...

I reckon they’re just trying to ged rid of all their blue stock before next year, where we will see new ‘Bluish’ Blue, shifted toward the blue spectrum to be more inline with the other colours, etc. Creative wordsmiths will refer to this colour as ‘Bloob’.

Michael



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  Re: Read Sales in the Subset
 
(...) Do you know why they made that piece? Along with [LDrawPart 2458:1] They provide a way of connecting modules without having the Technic peg migrate to the wrong side when disconnecting. The two-pronged version provides a way to connect modules (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
  Re: Read Sales in the Subset
 
(...) Now if Richie had received some of these parts in his knights bus set, the offending axle could be removed, leaving one perfectly good axle, well apart from the off-centeredness. No need to phone Denmark or open new sets. More twin parts to (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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(...) I've been quietly fuming ever since I read Michael's post. A blue piece!? How could they!? Don't they undertstand their fan base!? No wonder it's called blue. I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'm certainly going to be buying less of (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)

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