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Re: The Bar Does Not Go Down
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Mon, 10 May 2004 19:06:39 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Anthony Sava wrote:
Anthony,
Coming from another industry driven by fan interest and marketing to children
(video games), I can agree with a lot of what you say. TLC has made some very,
very bad choices over the past couple of decades. It makes me wonder where they
get the kids that they include in their focus groups.
As far as the quality of set designs, I’m not sure I agree that the peak of TLC
design quality was when you say it was, but I do see a much higher quality of
models built outside TLC (mostly by AFsOL) than inside (Legoland work is a
bright exception).
Someone else (Brian Davis) in a reply cautioned you to understand that many
factors affect a company’s stock price - I guess he forgot TLC is not a
publicly traded company.
I think that Al Broussard made an exceptionally important point - price point is
very likely a key to TLCs problems with their core product lines, and if they
don’t solve this issue as their competitors raise their quality bars (without
raising their prices) then they will cease to exist.
Personally, I like to see and build the occasional cool set but I’m FAR more
interested in what I can build.
.Steve Coallier
“Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway!”
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| I sometimes to wonder if Lego's designers are all incompetent, but I often convinced that they are not. Sets like Red Baron's Plane, Sopwith Camel, and many other shop at home exclusives, show that there are some designers working for TLC that can (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) Hmm... Clearly, since two people have brought up the point, I worded it poorly. I never said (nor did I mean to imply, which I think was the problem) Lego had publicly-traded stock. My point was that long-term performance tends to be one way (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| I just know I'm going to get flamed for this. I'm putting on my flame suit early. What follows are my opinions. Take them as you wish. I don't plan on doing much with this thread, so don't expect too many replies from me. It seems to me, for some (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego) !!
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