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Re: KCCUSA Summer Block Party
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Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:02:18 GMT
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In lugnet.events, Scott Lyttle wrote:
  
   We hope to see folks at KCCUSA this summer, it should be a lot of fun.

Larry Pieniazek

Wow! That’s just simply incredible--the characterizations of faces are beautiful--I hope Kellogs was very impressed!

Thanks. I think everyone at Kellogg’s Cereal City USA™ (KCCUSA) is quite pleased with how things turned out. I know we are. We didn’t hear directly from Kellogg Company®(1) corporate.

   I heard you had orange--we just got some in at our PaB..I only wished it was sooner--I could have sent some your way.

I was in Orlando in April and MTW did then look into getting elements for the project from the Disney Village PaB. (MTW had already sourced much of our needs by then, but could have used more if it was available). Unfortunately the pricing (at the K3 at a time level) was not at all competitive with hobbyist resale pricing...

I find that kind of ironic(2), that buying directly from LEGO costs more than getting the parts from hobbyists who buy at retail, sort the parts out, mark them up so they make a reasonable profit, and pay to ship them out again, with turnaround measured in days rather than weeks or months.

Perhaps the LEGO Affiliate program will help alleviate that situation in future.

   Now, I’m curious..did Kellogs purchase Tony, Snap,Crackle,Pop, and the Froot Loops box? Or, is MichLUG getting it back afterwards?

Not sure where MTW would keep them!

   (I think with the way these looked, Kellogs was impressed and bought them!)

Specific contract terms between MTW and KCCUSA are not public, but as Chris disclosed, KCCUSA owns the statues now. The display items, featured here, are on loan for the season.

1 - Note that the Kellogg Company is a separate entity from Kellogg’s Cereal City USA. The trademarking, pluralisation and possessive notation of these and other trademarked names throws me for a loop all the time... Kellogg Company®, Kellogg’s Cereal City USA™, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes®, Snap!, Crackle! and Pop!®, etc. etc.

2 - but understandable... small one person operations can be nimbler and can do things for lower margins.

++Lar



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