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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 03:05:18 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Laswell wrote:
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They do have too many colors right now. How useful is light-yellow?
Light-orange? What about bright-green?
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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.
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as popular as it would be amongst
certain ranks of AFOLs to have both dark-grey and gunmetal-grey produced at
the same time, I have to agree that they’re still too similar to make
economic sense for TLC to keep both.
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That is the whole point of this thread and you failed to make a single argument
supporting your opinion. I like “gunmetal” though. If we keep calling it that
instead of bley Lego is sure to get rid of it!
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I’ve been told face-to-face that TLC has purposefully underadvertised when
sets are selling fast enough to keep up with their production rates.
Takanuva sold well enough on his own, so all of the US BIONICLE advertisement
was geared towards the Rahkshi sets. Some areas of the world didn’t get any
advertisement at all because everything sells pretty much as fast as they can
stock it. It’s possible that this is the case with the HP sets.
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I’m sure the hundreds of people they’ve layed of from their jobs with Lego
production would be happy to know this.
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They have stated on more than one occassion that they will not be dropping
the Star Wars or Harry Potter lines, both of which are in the top five
best-selling themes, and pulling in more money than they cost to produce.
What they said was that they would not be relying primarily on licensing
deals, but that they would continue to make them when they seemed appropriate
(like Dora the Explorer).
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You arn’t keeping up with current events. With the layoffs at the top of the
company they said with no uncertain terms that they were dropping ALL licenced
lines as they were not making enough money. The “new” sets like the multi-purple
bus and Dora were planed far in advance of that anouncment. Once the licences
already paid for expire so do the associated lines.-Ken
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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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| (...) ...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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