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Subject:	Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:38:28 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, J. Spencer Rezkalla wrote:

In lugnet.lego, Ken Nagel wrote:

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Perhaps there are different connotations of the term “limited”? • SNIP Spencer

No confussion here. They said through Jake M., SHO, and press releases that it was LIMITED TO 10,000.

I don’t care about collectability. I bought two the first time one for myself and another for a nephew. I may get another this time.

however I do detest being lied to. the excuse “we changed our minds” is only an excuse. It does not change the fact that a promise was broken.

After bley and click hinges et. al. some seem to think they are taking the high road by defending the company no matter what they do. This is sad it’s not the company doing with their product as they see fit it’s the company lying to you.-Ken

Message has 3 Replies:

		Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
(...) Can we please stop with the spin on the situation? There were no lies At the time, no contract with Maersk to make future sets and LEGO had these pellets to get rid of. Come out with nifty set and use up pellets--limited 'cause, as stated by (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
(...) In fact, the run of this new set uses all the Maersk blue ABS pellets we have left. That means that there is literally no Maersk blue ABS left. Even the parks can no longer get Maersk blue. This is a small run too – only 14,000 total, with (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
What makes you think that Lego would deign to expend the effort it would take to lie to a bunch of insignificant moqsuitoes like us? The contribution margin on the entire load of Maersk ships probably amounts to what we accountants call a rounding (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: A Community Problem (Was: Re: 10152 Update)
(...) Perhaps there are different connotations of the term "limited"? "Limited" in that we will purposefully limit production to X number of units to create collector demand, and will never produce them again, thus protecting their collector's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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