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Re: 2006 - 45 Years Of Lego in the USA
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Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:38:06 GMT
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Maybe I ought to rephrase that..... the Samsonite fiasco caused TLG to start
from scratch in building new Lego operations and production in Enfield
Connecticut.
It is also interesting to note that when the Samsonite of Canada license expired
in 1986, there was none of this turmoil (except perhaps for those Canadian
Samsonite Lego workers who were out of a job when Lego operations moved to
Enfield). Ditto in 1993 when Courtauld's Lego license expired in Britain,
Australia, and the rest of the British Commonwealth.
Since 1993, Lego operations worldwide have been under TLG control.
Gary Istok
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| (...) I had a tour of the plant in Stratford in '85-86ish... I don't think too many people were displaced--right beside the machine that pumped out LEGO was the machine that pumped out luggage. They showed me the LEGO molds and those were stored (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) You are correct Rosco, that was the result of the Samsonite fiasco. It also affected early Duplo, early Classic Space, early Castle, all the small Town models and basic sets. (All these cross reference tables are in the Lego CD.) One area that (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-06, to lugnet.general)
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