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Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.starwars
Followup-To: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 03:59:00 GMT
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In lugnet.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:

> In lugnet.general, "Christian Gemuenden" <GECH1@t-online.de> writes:
> > as I just mentioned in a very very long e-mail, where does the information
> > of the Star Wars bucket 1886 come from? This information is also leaked,
> > copied from retailers information only and so against what we expect of TLC
> > wants published on lugnet.com
> 
> I obtained that information and the set number in a phone call to LEGO
> Shop-At-Home and to LEGO Consumer Affairs.  IIRC, I told them that I'd heard
> a rumor on the Internet that there was going to Star Wars bucket and I asked
> them to query their computer for any information about a "Star Wars bucket."
> The information that came back was that the set number was 1886, the name
> was "3+ bucket" (or something like that), and that it wasn't going to be
> available in the U.S. (this is all from memory...there's a post about it
> somewhere...)

Wait, no, that's not quite right.  I stand corrected...I just checked the
RTL archive on Deja.com...  Looks like I heard the set number first, and
-then- got more information from S@H, given the set number.  I don't know if
I'd've gotten the set number from S@H all by itself, but I suppose that
becomes irrelevant once S@H gives out the full information to a perfect
stranger on the phone.

The number 1886 for the SW bucket came from a sheet which was dispatched to
retailers around the country by LSI in Enfield, giving a list of buckets
being discontinued.  I asked my source if this was confidential information,
and he/she preferred to remain anonymous but added that it wasn't really
confidential, to the best of his/her knowledge.  This same source has also
-not- repeated private information which he/she did believe was
confidential, so I have reason to believe it was correct.

--Todd

[followups to lugnet.starwars]



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  Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
 
(...) [SNIP] (...) I hate to jump in on this one, but I think the scans were OK. As for retailer catalogs, what about set 6500???? It says in the Pause/Lugnet database, "In a 1996 UK retailers catalog, this set was announced to have been "Available (...) (27 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
 
Chet Corbin <citeman@aol.com> wrote in message news:FMAz0B.CnK@lugnet.com... (...) retailer (...) "In a (...) you (...) I was the source of that 'leak'. It's in my 1996 retailers catalogue, but I didn't notice it until about 1998 (when I started (...) (27 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: COMPLETE LIST OF NEW SETS FOR 2000
 
(...) I obtained that information and the set number in a phone call to LEGO Shop-At-Home and to LEGO Consumer Affairs. IIRC, I told them that I'd heard a rumor on the Internet that there was going to Star Wars bucket and I asked them to query their (...) (27 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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