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Re: Service Catalog gone from lego.com
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:56:03 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:

"parts availability" will hold true.  For example - the 2x3x3 extreme slope corner
bricks in Yellow were only available in the Yellow Castle (375/6075), which was
made in the early 1980's.   You won't be seeing these pieces available unless they
are used in a recent/future set.  Even the Model Shops in Billund/Windsor/Enfield
have to use the pieces available to them from current inventory (although one does
wonder where they got all those light blue bricks from).

They are limited to the PIECES currently produced, but they don't seem to be limited
to the COLORS produced.  I know of no current set using 1x1 round plates in light
blue, yet they are all over LLC.

Since they are producing the 2x2x3 steep corners for the castle sets, they obviously
have good molds to use.  I would hope it wouldn't take much to run off a few thousand
of each color before stopping the use of that mold, if they had the brains to reserve
some decent warehouse space for LegoDirect.


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(...) OK, I don't want to shatter the dream John, but I don't think we're gonna get "carte blanche" availability of parts, even from LEGO Direct. Not unless TLC alters their basic philosophy for parts creation. I think that the reality of "parts (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)

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