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Re: LEGO for this year [and a little info about next year]
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lugnet.loc.au
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Thu, 9 Aug 2001 04:42:16 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
Thanks for the info, Ben.
> Apparently, Adventurers are officially dead [Looks like I'll have to step up
> the recruiting] as is Town,
A minute's silence, please.
> with Jack Stone taking it's place...though I'm
> not sure which is worse: town Jr or Jack Stone.
I think another minute's silence is in order. ;-)
> I also mentioned about the soccer sets and she said that they weren't
> originally planned for Aus, but when LA finally worked out that they don't
> know best, they decided to go for quantity of sets rather than price
> margin...which seems to have worked extremely well for them. ALSO, the rep
> said something about a larger field
It makes me wonder how many fields LEGO think we'll buy... hmmm
> and more accessories for next year
Cool!
> Another thing on the radar for next year is a new castle,
I thought there was a rumour about no more castle until HP was completed? A
new castle would be good though.
> and the one thing everyone expects: more Star wars sets.
Ep2 "Attack of the Clones" only?
I guess we'll get to see the first truly Australian minifigs (Claudia Karvan
would be good, but we'll probably only get Jack Thompson!!)
> Unfortunately, with a short lunch time, that was about all I had time to get
> (She was putting up PRIMO re-releases when I got there, and I asked if the
> Lady-bug/telephone rattle was due for re-release ;) Turns out she never knew
> it had even been recalled.)
I don't think LEGO likes to talk about it very much. I amaze visitors from
time to time by showing them 'the world's most dangerous piece of LEGO'.
> Oh yes, and they had the Jurasic Park 3 movie-maker sets on the shelf, too.
Were the prices way over the top?
Cheers
Richie Dulin
Patrician of Brick-Morpork
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| I was in TRU in the city today, and who should be there but their friendly LEGO rep who gave me some information about what LA have been up to :) The first thing I enquired about was the catalogues (naturally) and I was told that they should be (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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