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Re: Article text
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:58:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ken Nagel wrote:
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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 large scale “Wizard of OZ” “Emerald City” made largly of
trans green brick.
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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 basic green as gunmetal grey is from dark-grey. Those three specific colors
don’t have much added value over the original three, and I don’t see the point
in their continued use (I also don’t see many instances of MOC use).
Trans-green, however, is a completely unique color. There is no other
transparent color that at all resembles trans-green. I’m not sure I entirely
sure why they felt the need to have both trans-light blue (which looks
flourescent) and trans-flourescent blue (which doesn’t) at the same time, since
they’re pretty close, but at least they look very different under black-light.
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Nice dissertation however it doesn’t hold water. The Harry Potter car had to
be light blue. It the sense of the over all operation it didn’t cost them
any more to make it in light blue instead of the original dark blue.
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I didn’t say anything about light-blue, either. Light-blue looks significantly
different from basic blue, and I’m fine with it’s continued use. Again, reread
what I wrote, because I don’t think you understood it the first time.
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Need more? Two words “Maersk Blue”. They can’t use it on models made for the
public due to licencing restrictions however they still make it for the
model shops.
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Actually, word is that they stopped producing it even for them. Oddly enough,
those guys pretty much universally went with Maersk Blue over light-blue, from
what I understand, but that still leaves them in a situation where they
preferred one color over a very similar color, but they had the advantage of
being able to choose their favorite solely on which shade they actually
preferred because they never had to worry about whether a specific piece had
ever been produced in that color.
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If it was only 2003 it would be fine however 2003 was just the worst of its
mulit year decline. By the end of 2003 there were plenty of toy manufacturers
seeing sunny day ahead. The new Hogwarts will take off only due to sales to
the same customers. You seem to keep thinking every one knows what you know
and thinks what you think.
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No, but after collecting Star Wars action figures for close to ten years
straight, I’ve heard the same complaints coming from the fans, and the same
explanations coming from the company.
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There is a huge market out there that was never made aware of the Lego Harry
Potter line and that is where the stagnation came from.
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Possibly, but you can’t know that for sure. You say there are a lot of kids who
don’t even know that LEGO HP exists. Does that mean that if they did each and
every one of them would own a Hogwarts by now? Very likely not. I’d actually
venture a guess that the people who are still unaware of the LEGO HP line this
far down the road would be even less likely to buy the larger sets than those
who knew about it earlier in the game.
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http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=44690
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“profits stagnated because of the higher cost of producing the new products.
The company now plans to stop making the electronics and movie tie-in
products and return to its core mission: producing colored plastic building
blocks for children.”
When they say in their own words: “The company now plans to stop making...
...movie tie-in products” I would think they are going to stop making movie
tie in products.
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Ah, but they didn’t say that “in their own words”. That portion of text was
written solely by Business Newswire, which apparently got the story wrong. They
also said that TLC would stop making any electronic toys (in the portion that
you clipped out of the middle), but we’ve since received confirmation
specifically that both Mindstorms and Harry Potter would continue in the press
release I linked to. Star Wars has also been confirmed to not be in danger,
along with reaffirmation of MS and HP, in this post by Jake McKee. If he’s willing to risk his good name, on LUGNET, by
stating point blank that none of those three lines are going away (again, no
mention of Spiderman...), I’m betting he really, really, really means it.
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Bionicle has never been in danger but you better watch the news closer.-Ken
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There’s a log in your eye. From the way the very first statements were issued,
BIONICLE was very much in a risky situation. Everything pointed to TLC
returning to their core products. What’s a core product? BIONICLE features a
huge number of new pieces each year (more in 3 years than Star Wars in 5), it
uses very few basic System bricks, it relies heavily on collectibility as a way
of generating interest, and there is a certain amount of fad status to it.
“Core products” looked like it might not include BIONICLE. Since then we’ve
found out that “core products” includes nearly everything they produce, and that
no radical changes are being implemented. They’re just going to be a bit more
careful about securing new licenses.
For the record, the instant the future of BIONICLE was uncertain in my eyes, I
e-mailed one of my contacts in the PR department, and was assured that neither
BIONICLE nor Star Wars would be cancelled as a result of this turn of events.
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