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Subject:	Re: Some 2005 sets showing up already in regular stores.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005
Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:45:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul S. D’Urbano wrote:

In lugnet.general, Bryan Wong wrote:

In lugnet.general, Paul S. D’Urbano wrote:

Out of curiosity I looked at Amazon/TRU for this set. I found something titled:

Lego Radio Control Ferrari Enzo (8652)

(just go to http://www.toysrus.com and search for “Lego Ferrari”)

Is 8652 radio controlled?!?!?

No I don’t think so. Here’s a picture of the box:

Thanks for the pic Bryan.

Earlier today I went to a TRU and purchased one so I had already seen the box in person. I almost didn’t buy it because I think the stickers used for the headlights are very unappealing. I think they make it look like a cheap toy at first glance and distract from the rest of the interesting details in the design.

I plan to leave those stickers off and I’m expecting I’ll like the look of the car much better without them. At least that’s the impression I get when I hold my fingers over the head-lights while I look at the picture on the box (go ahead, try it, you’ll see what I mean :-). I wish there was a way they could have used smoke-colored slope bricks to represent the headlights instead of the stickers.

Interestingly, in regard to my original post, I noticed that when the TRU cashier scanned the box the name that appeared was something along the lines of “LEGO RC Ferrari - Promo”. Somehow TRU got confused into thinking this would be an RC set while of course we know it isn’t. Not sure if we should read into that about the possibility of a real RC Ferrari set in the future...

Regards, Paul

The headllights aren’t stickers. The headlights are printed slopes, and everything else is stickers. It’s very weird. You’ve probably opened yours by now, but thought I’d put it out there.

-Dan Rubin

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		Re: Some 2005 sets showing up already in regular stores.
(...) Doh! (...) Thanks for the info Dan. I haven't opened mine yet (won't until X-mas). It looks like those are 'Slope Brick 18 4 x 2'. I have a couple plain red ones in my collection so I guess I can still work around the ugly headlights. Do they (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)

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		Re: Some 2005 sets showing up already in regular stores.
(...) Thanks for the pic Bryan. Earlier today I went to a TRU and purchased one so I had already seen the box in person. I almost didn't buy it because I think the stickers used for the headlights are very unappealing. I think they make it look like (...) (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2005, FTX)

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