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Re: 10152 Maersk promo ship comes back as 10155
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lugnet.promo
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Thu, 6 Jan 2011 04:15:28 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, David Eaton wrote:
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At the time, LEGO decided to run through its remaining stock of Maersk Blue,
and there wasn’t any more left. Totally true. LEGO didn’t comment on whether
or not it would ever make any more Maersk Blue, although it DID say that
there weren’t any plans to do so. Again, totally true. Jake reported those
facts, which seemed to imply that there would NEVER AGAIN be any Maersk Blue.
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There’s one major issue that you left out. There was a vote held by The LEGO
Company to determine what color would be used for a Maersk Sealand variant. The
choices were dark-blue and dark-green (our dark-green, not, as many suspected,
the official dark-green that’s just basic green). The results were so confused
that they announced that they’d release it in both colors, which excited many.
Then the Maersk company decided to order more of the Sealand in their official
color, and now that whole “no more Maersk-blue” thing appears to be out of the
picture. So, at one point, it appears that it really was going to be true.
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| (...) As I recall, Jake McKee implied that Maersk Blue wouldn't be available again-- the company as a whole didn't really say anything at all. Then the AFOL community ran with it and made a huge deal over what Jake said. At the time, LEGO decided to (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jan-11, to lugnet.promo, FTX)
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