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Lego New is Up —Jeff Elliott

Hi folks, Thought I'd point out the the new Lego site is up. Jeff (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Michel Roijen

? not yet ? the same ! when ? ;-) play well Michel Roijen (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Jeremy H. Sproat

(...) Yah, I just checked it out -- it won't work for me. Evidently, the "Low-Band No Flash Site" still needs Javascript. :-( I haven't visited www.lego.com for almost a year now, due to their various user-hostile publishing policies... Cheers, - (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Matthew Miller

(...) It also doesn't work with Lynx. It gives an error about cookies -- even though Lynx accepts cookies and works with every other site that requires them. (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Jude Beaudin

(...) Then what is new? Not the home page, bulk pages, catalog... Jude (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —James Brown

(...) Maybe in your corner of the universe... not in mine. :) Looks like lego.com may be experiencing that weird slow progression again... James (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

RE: Lego New is Up —Bram Lambrecht

(...) It's up for me... Maybe the people who don't see it have cached versions... One thing I noticed is better names for the bulk parts (ex: Train window is only in parentheses, the main name is Wall Element). --Bram Bram Lambrecht (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Tim Courtney

"Bram Lambrecht" <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) versions... (...) is (...) Are those small changes part of the new site though? It certainly looks the same to me - maybe I haven't looked deep enough. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Kevin Loch

(...) Well, Looks like they are in the process of updating their DNS so it will have (mostly) propogated by tomorrow. Here's what the LEGO.COM dns servers are reporting for query lego.com: DNS101.TELIA.COM: No response (Doh!) DNS102.TELIA.COM: No (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Tom Stangl

Well, the new Bulk pages already have a mistake - the 2x6 bricks use a picture of a 2x8 - wasn't that an OLD error that they never fixed? They had a perfect opportunity to fix it with the update, and blew it. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Chris Gray

(...) Your browser cache might need flushing or something. I haven't visited www.lego.com for a while, but did so just now. I see 2 x 8's for sale with a picture of a 2 x 8, but no 2 x 6 picture or mention. The look is new for me, too. I don't have (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Tim Courtney

"Chris Gray" <cg@ami-cg.GraySage....ton.AB.CA> wrote in message news:m3zolabf70.fsf@...n.AB.CA... (...) I now have the new look too. Great improvement!! -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Jude Beaudin

(...) Does it mean I do not have it if I don't see any changes? i.e. is it that different from last week? Jude I deleted all temporary files with IE 5 and still I cannot see any changes. (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Mike Walsh

"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:G0wqw7.LEM@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) changes. An hour ago I couldn't see the new siite but now I can. I like it a lot better, and the ability to buy on-line is obviously in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Tim Courtney

"Jude Beaudin" <shiningblade@home.com> wrote in message news:G0wqw7.LEM@lugnet.com... (...) Do not have what? I see the site has been updated, I find it funny that you can't see it....esp. after you deleted all your temp files. Don't know what to (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Ryan J. Schave

I've deleted the cache, temp files, etc. The site still looks the same to me. Is there something I should be looking for that is different from the old site. (URL) still has a splash screen that says "The race begins September 2000" I figured the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Jude Beaudin

(...) Could it be that Ryan and I are on the @home network or something? Perhaps the servers are pointing to the old website. (I am guessing now, I am not sure how this type of thing even works) My question is is the home page the same as last week? (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Ryan J. Schave

I just fired up my laptop and connected to the net via my old and slow dial up account (Netcom, er I mean Mindspring, er I mean Earthlink). The site looks the same as when I access it via my @home account which is to say that nothing looks new. Ryan (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Christian Gemuenden

Hey Tim, that's not funny at all! I can't see the new site on my PC either. However, I have a second PC here as well which runs excactly with the same Software. WIN NT and MIE 5.0. The two PCs are basically the same, but one of them shows me the new (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Jude Beaudin

(...) Are you using the same internet provider for both? Is it the same account you are using? I just got into work, cleared the cache on my Win 95 with Netscape 4.7 and low and behold... the old site. <stamping feet> I WANNA SEE THE SITE (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Casper van Nimwegen

(...) However, I (...) WIN (...) me (...) hard, (...) dissapointing, (...) PC. (...) makes (...) I'm even more confused... yesterday evening I saw the new site; now I only get errors when I try to go to the new site. What's going on?! (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Tom Stangl

(...) Can you look at that again? (URL) - very first row, far right - green 2x8 BRICK pictured, yet the description under it (and on the left frame) is 2xSIX. (Black Item #3463, etc, etc) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Ryan J. Schave

on bulkpage1.asp ?? I don't see any mentionof 2x6's. I see C. 2 x 8 BRICK 25 piece bag $8.99 with a picture of a green 2x8 brick. Ryan -- reply to: rjschave at home dot com (URL) Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Tom Stangl

There's your problem - you still see the old site. The NEW site has: 2x6 Brick Black Item #3463 Light Grey Item #3464 White Item #3465 Dark Green Item #3466 Red Item #3467 Pictured above them is a 2xEIGHT brick. No prices listed on the new site yet. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Julie Krenz

The prices are there, but it's just a kinda round about way of getting to them. You need to click check availability, then you get to choose where you are located, then you get a price list. I think instead of "check availability" they should have (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Tom Stangl

Yes, you get a list - the FULL list - it would be more useful if you got the price for the part you were checking on, rather than having to remember the part # then look it up on the full list. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Jude Beaudin

(...) <snip> Do they have *new* bulk elements? Jude Blind to the new changes thus far... (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Jeff Elliott

(...) Hi Jude, No, the set of elements is the same, allowing for the error on the 2x8 brick. I suspect that your problem has to do with retrieving pages from a proxy or from a local DNS which still has the old address cached. Be patient and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Jude Beaudin

(...) I can see said the blindman!!! Finally :-) Jude (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Why does TLC collect GST?!? (was Re: Lego New is Up (and...)) —Steve Chapple

(...) Absolutely - I suspect we would all concur. Perhaps that is going to be "fixed" when the on-line ordering becomes available. Julie Krenz wrote: (...) Another good point. What really bother's me though is this: " In placing your order, you (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Why does TLC collect GST?!? (was Re: Lego New is Up (and...)) —James Brown

(...) Whenever you buy something internationally, and have it shipped to you, you pay applicable duties and taxes - which in the case of toys, is 0% duty and 7% tax. I'm not sure what you mean by the tax being 150% of what it should be - 7% is 7%, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)

Re: Why does TLC collect GST?!? (was Re: Lego New is Up (and...)) —Kevin Wilson

(...) No, the GST applies to purchases made by Canadians. If you buy something in the US and bring it back in and pay customs duty on it, you get to pay GST too. If you subscribe to a US magazine, the cost includes GST. If you mail order something (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Why does TLC collect GST?!? (was Re: Lego New is Up (and...)) —Steve Chapple

(...) I'm not surprised at what IS, I'm saying that it SHOULD not be occuring. It is double-dipping. The GST was to take the place of the manufaturer's tax. Duty is to "protect" domestic companies from foreign competition. (With NAFTA, there (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Jeff Elliott

(...) Tom, I also see this error. Interestingly enough, though, it's not the same error as on the original bulk page (old Lego site) -- the first time, it said 2x8 brick, but pictured a 2x10, if I remember correctly. Jeff (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Ben Gatrelle

(...) I don't know when this was corrected, but it is a two by six today, and I don't think anyone mentioned it previously. BEN (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Mark Koeberl

As Tom mentioned, that's the old site. However, I think I like the old site just a bit more. Seems that if you want to sell a product, you should provide all the info you can about the product in the most convenient manner possible. Not listing a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Chris Gray

(...) Sorry, no, I can't. When I access it now, it tells me that I have to accept a cookie, which I refuse to do. I guess I won't be visiting the Lego site anymore, until they fix this bug. Some of the folks having trouble getting the new stuff may (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Matthew Miller

(...) It's a bug that it doesn't work with some browsers even though they do accept cookies. And it's bad design for the site to not work at all without them. But it's not a bug. Cookies which are sent back to the original server only are a good (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —Chris Gray

(...) Calling it a bug was just me being annoyed. I'm a relatively old geezer who has been programming computers for 25+ years. I miss the days when you could understand pretty much everything your computer was doing, along with how and why. My (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Lego New is Up (and ALREADY a mistake) —David Schilling

If you want inconsistencies, with a site this big there will inevitably be a lot of them if you look hard enough. You can't expect perfection in something this big. Fortunately, most of the problems won't be very significant. For instance, here is (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Kevin Loch

(...) Well, it looks like all the nameservers are returning 192.208.45.167 now, even the telia.com ones. I'm getting the new site (now that the dns has propogated) and this is the home page: (URL) returns the under construction page. That should (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Steve Bliss

(...) And I get the IE5 default 404 "page not found" with this one. Steve (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Michael Lachmann

I don't realy like this site ... they require cookies ... they require macromedia flashplayer 3 - I have 5 installed - but it doesn't recognice it ... properly because of NT :-(. I believe in this times a web-site should also work wihtout cookies - (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Todd Lehman

(...) I can see the new & improved LEGO site fine with Netscape 4.7x under Linux -- but I thought I'd give it whirl with Lynx because I could always find the press releases easier that way. Problem is, when I try acessing it with Lynx (2.8.x), I get (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Lego New is Up —Matthew Miller

(...) I get that error all the time with lynx -- it's usually just a warning and Lynx copes with it. However, this ends up doing something else weird: it eventually dumps me at: [ERROR.GIF] No cookie. To access this site your browser must be (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Lego New is Up —Kevin Reid

(...) I had the same problem trying to use iCab to access it - it worked fine once I told iCab to pretend it was Netscape. (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Lego New is Up —Scott Arthur

(...) Now I am dissapointed. S@H UK, is headed "England": (URL) are full RRP, shipping is extra. Scott A (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk)

Re: Lego New is Up —Jude Beaudin

(...) Tell us something we don't know :-) (...) At least you can see the site :-( What does the home page look like? (I feel like I am asking someone to read me a comic over the phone) Jude (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Re: Lego New is Up —Steve Anderson

I've already emailed them about it Scott... it got my goat as well! Steve "Scott A" <eh105jb@mx1.pair.com> wrote in message news:G0xK9p.Jrw@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk)

Re: Lego New is Up —Lawrence Wilkes

(...) Now Lego will only ship to England! Regards Lawrence ps my Grandmother was Scottish - McDougal My other Grandparents are Irish Wilkes is Dutch And my wife is Polish So my kids have a difficult time with national identity! Still at least they (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.loc.uk)

Re: Lego New is Up —Scott Arthur

Hey, I was only thinking of the English readers. Without the celtic nations the UK would have no culture. :-) Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

Re: Lego New is Up —Jonathan Reynolds

(...) Hey...what about all the memorable things we English are good at; 1) Inventing things we can't make and forgetting to patent them 2) Imaginative physical 'discussions' after losing footy matches 3) Wearing socks on hot days 4) NEVER tooting (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

Re: Lego New is Up —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) To be perfectly correct, without the Celts the UK would have no counterculture. As for the ascendant sort, you can thank the Empire writ large for that. It certainly saved European cuisine! :) best, LFB (anyone for a curry?) (mmmmaybe to (...) (24 years ago, 16-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

Re: Lego New is Up —Todd Lehman

(...) Say, what does RRP stand for? Is it another name for MSRP (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price) a.k.a. "suggested retail price" or "list price"? --Todd (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

Re: Lego New is Up —Huw Millington

"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G0xx9B.54u@lugnet.com... (...) Recommended Retail Price Huw (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)