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Re: Comment Now at LEGO.com: New Grey and Brown
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lugnet.lego
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Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:57:10 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Dave Schuler wrote:
> For various reasons I'm almost wholly untouched by changes to LEGO colors,
Somehow I'm not surprised...
> but I would suggest that, although Bionicle is a smash hit, other significant
> departures, such as Galidor and ZNAP, were remarkably unsuccessful.
Some Train-heads still like ZNAP for bridge-building purposes, but I don't even
remember hearing about it prior to the release of BIONICLE. By then it was
pretty much dead, and that suggests that it wasn't marketed the way it should
have been. So does the fact that I can't remember ever seeing it listed in a
pack-in catalog.
> It's not sufficient for TLG to see the gray and say "It Is Good." TLG has
> declared other things "Good" in the past, and, the last time I checked, my
> local TRU had half a dozen "Nick" action figures on clearance for $0.99 a
> piece.
The Galidor series was a great concept, with better excecution than I would have
expected out of any other toy company. It fit perfectly with the non-violent
focus of TLC, despite the fact that the Ooni got hit with a listing on the Dirty
Dozen toy list (or whatever it's called). It was only missing one thing. A
market. If the exact same TV show was done twenty years ago, it would have
probably succeeded, but it just doesn't come anywhere close to the kind of stuff
that's been popular for the last five years or so. Without an audience for the
show, the toy line was doomed from the start, no matter how well it was
developed.
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| (...) ZNAP was carried by TRU. I assume that it was also carried by S@H, but not sure about that. I have seen bits of it at Tuesday Morning and Dollar General (small bits to be sure). I know one TRU that still has the ZNAP polybags hanging around (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Am I that transparent? 8^) (...) I didn't know that--what criterion put it on the list? (...) I can agree with that. The modular-figure concept meshes well with Micronauts, which I recall to have been quite popular during their heyday. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) For various reasons I'm almost wholly untouched by changes to LEGO colors, but I would suggest that, although Bionicle is a smash hit, other significant departures, such as Galidor and ZNAP, were remarkably unsuccessful. It's not sufficient (...) (20 years ago, 11-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego)
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