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The molds for the 1x2 bricks and 1x14 bricks for garage doors HAVE to
still be available, the bricks have been in Castle sets up until last
year (and the castings were clean, unlike some other bricks lately).
I sure HOPE they still have the slat molds. Brad and TLG already know
how much in demand they'd be in colors other than what was in 5187, all
they have to do is go to http://home.xnet.com/~catena/ld_want.shtml
Saturating the market with garage doors will take a LONG TIME. Any kid
would have the sense to buy some after seeing them, to get a JRized set
looking at least halfway decent.
Mr L F Braun wrote:
> Hi, all--
>
> I called in to check on the status of my lonely last two
> Euro S@H envelopes, and had a very interesting chat with
> a fellow on the phone banks (I won't give names, just in
> case).
>
> He told me that apparently there was some rumbling from
> within TLC about getting a small production run of some
> of the more instantly-popular items together, because
> the demand had apparently exceeded their wildest expec-
> tations. It looks like the quantity of some packs sold
> within a week was well over 1,000 (5187, cough cough),
> which is absolutely unheard of--and the remarkable point
> that a lot of this traffic was done by proxy, e.g., US
> credit cards to European addresses.
>
> Another interesting bit of trivia: Apparently someone
> at US S@H intimated that there was no demand for these
> sorts of accessories, thus why the effort to distribute
> them was belated and stunted. Again, the predictions
> were *totally* inadequate for the reality.
>
> The big shocker for me was the very frank statement that
> S@H was "looking closely" at the possibility of putting
> a few things back into limited production. He had no
> idea how closely that looking was being done, nor any
> idea if the moulds were even still in existence or what
> those "few things" might actually be, but IMHO it
> bears noting that we've at least made believers out of
> the phone bank and CS people at Lego S@H Europe in the
> profit potential of older parts, even outside the gold
> rush of a short-term strike. And changes happen more
> quickly and surely the more people within a company
> who are aware!
>
> The only "if" is a question of how much it will take to
> saturate the market.
>
> all best
>
> Lindsay
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