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Subject:	Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer
Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2001 02:50:48 GMT
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No matter what Lego says, the distribution of discs in the Throwbot/Slizer sets was not Random. The pictures of the sets that were on the on-lin catalog showed exactly the discs that came with the sets. The extra disc boxes aren't quite random either, as you are guaranteed to get one disc of each pip value (2 through 6) and only if you're lucky, a 7 pip disc in addition to or instead of the 6 pip disc. The major problem with this is everybody already has all eight 2 nad 3 pip discs from the sets, but you end up getting more of them just to get the higher pip discs. What a crock. > Maybe the mask bag are in a certain prodution order, a certain number now, a > couple weeks later some different masks, a so on and so forth. Only a couple > different masks are availible now, both in the cans and the separate bags. > Probably done so they can stretch the product line over 2 years or how ever > long. I bought 10 of each Throwbot/Slizers from a variety of sources: Lego > S@H, K-mart(online and Off), KBkids(online and Off), Etoys, Target (Online) > and All I ever got for the original 8 were 2 pip and 3 pip discs.(NONE > OTHERS) I didn't do this a one time either, I spent 18 months from start to > finish, and I am still going (Need 3 more Flares- why is he hard to find) So > either all my sets even over a period of time all came from a first > prodution run, or I am exteremly unlucky. Maybe with the releases of each > new "Web Event" they will change prodution lines or runs.

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
You know your right I sould have know that the extra disc box has THE EXTRA DISCS! what an oversite on my part. So if that was the case, and all the current mask bags have the same masks, the only way to get new ones is to have Lego produce more. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)

		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
You know your right I sould have know that the extra disc box has THE EXTRA DISCS! what an oversite on my part. So if that was the case, and all the current mask bags have the same masks, the only way to get new ones is to have Lego produce more. (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)

		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) Uh, no. It's called "collectability". The higher pip value ones were more rare that the lower pip value ones. It's the same thing done with Magic cards, Pokemon cards... well, just about any kind of card, really. You get lots of more common (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.technic.slizer)

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) Maybe the mask bag are in a certain prodution order, a certain number now, a couple weeks later some different masks, a so on and so forth. Only a couple different masks are availible now, both in the cans and the separate bags. Probably done (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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