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Re: Lego Agrees to Discontinue Jabba's Palace
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Wed, 3 Apr 2013 04:52:12 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Paul Ferguson wrote:
  
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

Still, I wonder if this will make this set even more of a collector value with the controversy. I wonder if it would affect a future re-release or re-hash of that set.

drc



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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 (...) (12 years ago, 2-Apr-13, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)

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