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Re: Lego Agrees to Discontinue Jabba's Palace
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:57:52 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Joshua Delahunty wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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A story in the British newspaper The Independent reports that Lego has
agreed to discontinue set 9516 - Jabba’s Palace - after complaints by the
Turkish Cultural Association in Austria.
Full story:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-racist-menace-muslims-declare-victory-in-fight-over-antiislamic-lego-8555610.html
Of course, I figure that they’d have discontinued this set in 2014 anyway,
as newer Star Wars sets come on line.
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And here I was wondering if this would be a year with no special 1 April
stories on LUGNET...
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Apparently, it’s the real deal (the article hit 31 Mar), but the association
that is hailing a victory may have misinterpreted what they were told.
-- joshua
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Today’s Wall Street Journal has a follow-up article. In what will not surprise
AFOLs, Lego explains that they did meet with the Turkish Cultural Assocition,
but that the set is being disontinued as part of their regular product cycle.
As we all know, they turn over sets pretty fast now.
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2013/04/02/legos-comes-clean-on-
why-jabba-got-the-boot/?KEYWORDS=lego
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