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| | | (...) I'm just shocked...I can't even begin to say what this means to me....other than I guess the market for old Lego collections will just continue to go through the roof. <sigh> When will it ever end? (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Ahui Herrera
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| | | | (...) As sad (wrong depending on how ones sees it) as it may sound that TLC is moving production to China it *IS* the way of this century. Expect to see a lot of this occuring for the rest of our lifetime! 1st world countries *CAN NOT* compete (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —James Powell
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| | | | (...) Actually, I don't think it will save them much at all. Sea transport will now be across the atlantic, they have built the factories in Hungary, have the ones in Bulland (sp), ect. Cost to run the actual factories is relatively low in terms of (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —David Eaton
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| | | | | (...) Supposedly, it's around 7 seconds to cool and eject a new element from the mold (obviously differs according to piece size, etc). So if you count injection time, it's probably around 10 seconds or so? And I believe the number of elements (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —David Laswell
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| | | | | | | (...) 2x4 bricks are in 8-part molds, yes. I'd venture a guess that 1x1 molds produce more parts per shot, and that some really large parts might even be single-part shots. Now that's all because you want to use the full volume capacity of the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yeah, it does admittedly sound low to me-- where are you getting the cite? Of course, I guess I also didn't include packaging and shipment, either-- and that's not necessarily just the "final" packaging, but shipping to other areas to be (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —David Laswell
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| | | | | | | | (...) (URL), when 161 waged production workers in Billund were laid off, and 1500 was the number cited as being employed in the affected departments. (URL), when 43 administrators were in Billund were laid off, and 2000 was the number cited as being (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Jeff Szklennik
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| | | | | | In lugnet.lego, David Eaton wrote: SNIP (...) surprise-overpaid upper mananagement cutting labor to save costs. we can still have the best product without keeping the perception that more management is better. Jeff (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —David Laswell
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| | | | | | (...) It's really easy to look at it that way, but the evidence suggests otherwise. I cited a few press releases (URL) elsewhere> in this thread, most of which dealt with layoffs. Within a month of announcing 161 production layoffs last year in (...) (20 years ago, 23-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO... —Jeff Stabile
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| | | | (...) I would agree here. Maybe they are looking to take advantage of a newer, cheaper ABS supply? Is there a tax write-off in Denmark for relocation expenses like these? Its gotta cost a pretty penny to move the stuff. Jeff (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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