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Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
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lugnet.technic.bionicle
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Sat, 10 Feb 2001 18:33:43 GMT
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This reminds me of how hard it is to get the 7-dot Throwbot [Slizer] discs.
If this were Pokémon cards, rare items would be understandible, but these
"collectible" items are merely there to support sets which are available in
plenty. I really wish Lego wouldn't jerk us around like this.
Ray Kremer
http://throwbots.virtualave.net/
In lugnet.technic.bionicle, Christian Gemünden writes:
> In Europe the randomly assorted mask bags (#8530) came out in february. I
> picked up many of these bags already. To be excactly I do have more than 70
> of these bags, which means I spent about US$150 for these masks so far for a
> collection of about 150 masks.
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> It is more than obvious that these bags are *not at all* randomly assorted!
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> I think it's really a disgrace to LEGO to start such a lousy marketing
> strategy. Even the kids will soon find out that they were leg-pulled and
> LEGO never produced all the masks they show on the bags. Of course - once
> the kids find out that they were cheated, then it'll be too late for them as
> they've already spent all their money on the Bionicle stuff. However, a very
> bad taste of disappointment about the LEGO brand will stay in their minds! I
> don't think they'll buy LEGO any time soon again. What a stupid dirty trick
> LEGO is playing on them!
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