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| | | | | PVC (not ABS) parts —Don Heyse
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| | | | | (...) Wait a minute. I thought I was imagining this. What elements have appeared in cheaper plastic? I thought some of the plastic in the $10 Harry Potter sets with the cheesy cardboard backdrops seemed to be made of cheaper stuff. The sound that (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Article text —Matthew J. Chiles
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| | | | | (...) I know that is a chief deterrent for me right now. I am reluctant to buy sets from late last year that may contain grey because I am afraid they will actually have bley instead. And I have already shipped enough bley back to Lego to hopefully (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | (...) She didn't mention marketing she said it would be "expensive" to make both colors. Words mean things... don't try to read into them what's not there. There would be no marketing needed. A given model would use the appropriate color and it's (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —Mike Rayhawk
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| | | | | (...) Not at all, she said it would be expensive to "have" both colors. She didn't mention production either, you just assumed it. (...) By the very fact that you can propose that with a straight face, I can tell you've never worked for Billund. I (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | | | (...) You're splitting hairs. In order to have them they have to produce them. However you want to split it does not cost any more to have bley and grey than it does to have bley and (any color). The main point should be that while developing bley (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Mike Rayhawk
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| | | | | | (...) In order to have them they have to be able to sell them. I don't think I'm splitting hairs at all. I was just responding to your accusation that I was reading more into the word "have" than you were, which I still think was not the case. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) Hey, if you're gonna be arguing about the meaning of the word "have", take it to .off-topic.debate. :) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | | | (...) You haven't been listening to lego then. They seem to be willing to defend this with their dying breath. (wich is what I would like to avoid) (...) You haven't made that point though. They have a virtual spectrum now. If more colors cost more (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) For what it's worth, I just saw something on lego.com saying that Lego's current (no year given) lineup has 84 different colors. (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) ...and yellow and blue. I'm sure there are people who would be happy if every piece that was produced from now on would be a 2x4 in one of the original five colors, but that would pretty much drive the company into the ground. They do have too (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | | | (...) I have no idea what brought you to that conclusion. One of the hottest sellers keeping the Lego stors afloat right now is the pick a brick. People are gobbeling up the colors you seem to not find useful. (...) That is the whole point of this (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) They're selling because they're rare colors, not because they're particularly useful. And I'd be surprised in a large number of them weren't bought specifically to put on Bricklink. I still don't see many MOCs that actually use them. (...) You (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | | | (...) Awfuly bullheaded of you just because YOU don't find them useful. I've wittnessed hundreds of PAB purchases and the overwelming majority of them are because the people buying them because they enjoy them. As for MOCs I've seen many including a (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | "Ken Nagel" <knandjn@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:HtwMIE.4CE@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) to be (...) more (...) words (...) licencing (...) [ ... snipped ... ] Maybe but I don't think so. Over the years there has been speculation (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Article text —Bill Vollbrecht
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| | | | | | | | (...) Hope you don't mind if I chime in on the subject! The Maersk blue color was made to match exactly the official color of the Maersk company to use in sets using the Maersk name. The color was not available to the LEGOLAND modelshops until the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) Go back and reread exactly what I said, as I'm pretty sure you didn't understand it. I mentioned specifically "light yellow, light orange, and bright green". Why? Because they're all about the different from basic yellow, basic orange, and (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) They did no such thing. The new HP Hogwarts Castle is a 100% new design. The intent was to provide something that would appeal to those who had already bought the original Hogwarts, but that could still serve as a focal set for those who (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | (...) OK so nobody likes my term "Switched around". Matters not. The point is that they had nowhere near sold the original castle to all the people who would likely buy one. They couldn't keep going with it though because of the color change. So (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) If they tried to keep milking the original Hogwarts for every last drop, they'd be bleeding money to the Law of Diminishing Returns. There's a point where continued production of a set becomes a liability, and when the vast majority of stores (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | (...) The problem is that due to poor marketing they haven't begun to scratch the surface. You may hit TRU and make it a point of checking the Lego display but most parents don't, they scoot in buy what the child wants and leave. I know for a fact (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) Sets in the $90+ range sell in such small quantities that most stores won't even stock them, which is why TRU can get away with jacking the price another $10 over MSRP. Comparing a $300 toy to a similar $90 toy is simply a matter of scale. The (...) (20 years ago, 29-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | (...) The store only sells merchandise. If it's not selling then somebody is doing a pretty poor job of marketing it. That would be... oh, yea the guys with the weak shoulders... Hogwarts was expensive to produce because of the licencing fees. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) That's not always true. Ever heard of something called the Law of Supply and Demand? Demand has dropped because all of the people who absolutely had to buy it did. Then the people who kinda had to buy it did. Then the people who sorta wanted (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —Ken Nagel
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| | | | (...) Of corse I've heard of supply & demand. I'm the first to admit the castle sales slowed. That left Lego with two choices... 1)redesign the set 2)increase the demand. One of these choices is signifgantly more costly. Since they are whining about (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Article text —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) Both cost considerable amounts of money. In fact, I'd be surprised if designing a new Hogwarts didn't cost significantly less than a huge advertising campaign would (and anything less isn't going to have the impact that you seem to desire). (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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