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| | | (...) I understood it as Mark did. Personally, after 10,000, I rather see a *different* engine run of 10,000 and have the Super Chief go out of production for a while (based on the fact that LD can only have so many different sets in production at (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | (...) The sooner a LEGO Direct item becomes unavailable, the sooner that item begins to show up on eBay at inflated prices. Isn't that one of the things LEGO Direct was supposed to help stop? I am personally against any sort of 'Limited Edition' (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —Ace Kim
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| | | | i agree with this sentiment. in my mind limited edition in the case of the super chief is a short production run of 10,000 and NO MORE. what's the point of having a LIMITED EDITION if only a second run is going to be made with the only difference (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) Personally, I don't think 10000 is all that limited. I mean, even after Larry's placed his order[1] there'll still be plenty to go around. What production run would you expect of a set like this? I'm not a huge fan of forced 'collectibility', (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Heck yeah, a whole line of them (read: Thomas) -John (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) He said "Decent" not "Cute"... every club should have a Thomas(tm) but that doesn't mean I want LEGO(r) to dump effort into licensing it. Na, give us an A4 Mallard(1) (think of the compound curved pieces for that one!!!) 1 - check me on that, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) Yep, you got it. Class is A4, a Pacific (4-6-2) wheel arrangement, Mallard was the engine which took the world steam speed record of 126 mph in in 1938 IIRC. Designed by Sir Nigel Gresley for the LNER. Here (...) (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) LEGO(r) model of it some time back? For 50 points, who can give the URL(s) to the builder's pics??? (23 years ago, 22-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | Re: 10020 limited to 10000 sets or not? —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | (...) [Slowly raises hand] It was a long time ago, okay? Over a year and a half. I didn't have any track or 9V wheels either: (URL) Larry knows this because he was there. Look on the link to Huw's photos. All the effort went into the walking AT-AT (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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