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Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off?
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:44:03 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Miguel Agullo writes:
> In lugnet.technic, Steven Lane writes:
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> > I'd buy sets contained in a sturdy brown cardboard box made of recycled
> > materials with just a bar code on it if it meant I got the parts ... You'd just need to tape it shut and stick on a
> > mailing label and it would be ready for the post. That would give you
> > minimal costs and handling and make the whole venture more profitable and
> > therefore more worthwhile to Lego.
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> This is baseless. I suspect Lego's internal production lines are not exactly
> primed for this. I.e. costs for putting together old Technic sets might be
> very high, for all I know.
Your argument is just as baseless as mine. Putting together (packing) an old
Technic set would only cost more because they used to use more bricks (using
value as a comparison). And I never actually mentioned old sets in my post.
> Furthermore, Lego representatives have pointed
> out on several occassions that the adult builders represent a tiny fraction
> of their market. What you, me and a reduced number of other Technicheads
> would buy is basically irrelevant. Not that I don't conmiserate, but to
> think that Lego is obviously missing out is maybe awarding ourselves too
> much importance in the grand scale of the Lego universe.
My comments we're a response to the previous gripe about box quality.
While I'm here, I've just found a site called
www.PetitionOnline.com
Maybe we should start a petition for beams in sufficent quantities at an
affordable price?
Steve
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