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Re: Jake did good Thanks!!
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 5 May 2004 22:53:45 GMT
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lugnet.general, Richard Morton wrote:
> "Ted Michon" <ted@scltc.org> wrote in message news:Hx9DrH.JCy@lugnet.com...
> > It's past time to get beyond debating the "why" of the color change (and
> > especially haranguing Jake about it). I don't see any reason not to take Jake
> > and the TLC at their word that the new colors work better with the core market
> > at point of sale: at the toy store.
> >
> > We have to accept that for every 10,000 bricks one of us LUGNET types buy (and
> > to tell you the truth, I don't think there are anywhere near 1000 of us who buy
> > 10,000s of bricks each year), that TLC sells 10,000,000 to kids who don't know a
> > stud from a tube. That's just the way it is. The core LEGO market
> > is/was/always-will-be kids. We don't buy as much LEGO per year as parents of
> > kids who buy the
> > one-set-of-a-lifetime-that-lives-in-the-closet-until-the-kid-leaves-home.
> >
> > What I think TLC did wrong was to retire parts of a 30 year old system. That's
> > the bad idea. Jake's announcement of a limited rebirth really mitigates that.
> > How much depends on how accessible the new parts are.
> >
> > Everyone mentions New Coke. Nobody mentions that when after 6 months the Coca
> > Cola company relented and announced they were bringing back Classic Coke that
> > they kept New Coke. Within 12 months, you couldn't find a New Coke to save your
> > life.
> >
> > I'd like to think that we too could vote with our purchases here, but the
> > problem is that there will be a ton of new product and a limited supply of old
> > and that as a group we have about zip purchasing power. A whole lot of LEGO is
> > sold to people who don't have any to match or who don't know enough to care or
> > who, knowing, simply don't care. Indeed, there are members in my LTC who don't
> > see what the fuss is about (an LTC with $10,000 worth of old dark gray track).
> >
> > But I say thanks, Jake, you did good!
> >
> > -Ted Michon
> >
> > President
> >
> > SCLTC
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> Here here!
>
> Richard
I have to agree with nearly all the sentiments expressed here.
Jake is not personally at fault here and (note: my own unsubstantiated opinion)
probably none too impressed by it all himself as he a is an AFOL as well as an
employee. Thus going over the same things again are pointless, lets try to be
constructive and help Jake.
Tim
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