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Re: FOTW - Road N rail hauler, Club car, Crocodile Loco
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:54:16 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Santosh Bhat writes:
> The dealer said that he used to own a toy store but had to close down.
> They did have one or two other smaller sets, but i didn't really note them • down
> as my attention was elsewhere. But you know the standard range of crappy
> plastic toys, but there were some other stuff too. He pointed out a wooden
> Train set that he claimed collectors paid over $120 for him for.
It's amazing what toys some toy stores will carry and what more what they
won't. Some toy stores stock no Lego at all eg. Supertoys (Gosford) and
others (usually so-called educational toystores with enigmatic names) defend
their decision not to carry it because it doesn't fit with their theories
on educational toys.
> Judging by the plastic bag he gave me, they're Importers and distributors of
> toys from Hong Kong. The catalogues on the sets were bilingual in English and
> <insert Asian Language>. I don't seem to remember lego catalogues that we got
> in our sets ever being in any language other than English, so I'm guessing • that
> these sets were imported from overseas.
That's interesting considering the complaints from Japan and Taiwan about
access to Lego stock.
> I asked him if he had any other Lego Items and he said he'd have a look at the
> remainder of the stock he had. I'll check back next week to see if he's come • up
> with anything else good.
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> My gut feeling is that there is a stock of a whole lot of Older Lego being • held
> somewhere in Australia. In 1996 I was in "Clints Crazy Bargains" in • Parramatta,
> and they had a huge stack of 4551's for $50 and a stack of 12V Automated
> Swithing Rails for the trains. A very unusual find. I chased up some
> information as to how they got all these. Turns out that some • buyer/distributor
> must've got a delivery of them cheap off Lego Australia, and then sold them
> onto Clints who then sell it in their stores.
that's pretty sad, when you think of a quality product like Lego in a
$2 shop.
> Therefore there must be some other process going on about the way Lego
> Australia get rid of excess older stock that we haven't really found out • about.
> It would be good to know where these items go. There was discussions at • Legoz.2
> about how we'd be willing to pay to take older Lego Off LA's hands than for
> them to destroy them. Perhaps these buyer/distributors are applying the same
> priniciple.
>
> Thats one of my theories anyhow. Perhaps others may know a bit more.
That's the trouble though, getting these stories second and third hand, you
wonder what is true and what is leaning towards urban myth. If LA weren't so
secretive.
pete.w
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| Maybe i should draft up a letter to LA to find out what the actual stand on excess older stock is. I mean i could write it up from the perspective of a possible distributor. Maybe the Excess stock is a reason for why LA is moving to only getting (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| The dealer said that he used to own a toy store but had to close down. They did have one or two other smaller sets, but i didn't really note them down as my attention was elsewhere. But you know the standard range of crappy plastic toys, but there (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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