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Re: The sky is *not* falling
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lugnet.lego
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Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:33:45 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Don Heyse wrote:
> Me too. I've resisted buying the new colors, but I just started
> building a set I got as a gift and a couple of things struck me. I
> just don't buy the lame focus group / crisper pallette explanation.
> The implementation is just too hurried and half baked to support
> that theory.
I actually think "lame focus group" is a perfectly good explanation. Focus
groups seem to result in plenty of abominations that happen to have tested well
-- if not necessarily in a well-designed test. I didn't find the color palette
explanation is compelling (it's hard to imagine it really having festered for
25+ years), but it might have stuck in the craw of someone with leverage.
> For one thing, the "new improved" colors are not even mentioned on the
> package, much less advertised as you'd expect. [...] The whole thing looks rushed.
Agreed. I picked up the Mini Star Destroyer just before the color change
firestorm hit (in the expectation it would be a swell parts pack), and while I
was not as incensed as some, I didn't exactly view it as a pleasant surprise
either. It shouldn't have been a surprise at all.
> So I too have my fingers crossed that whoever's responsible for this
> mess got the axe in the management shakeup, and the return to core
> values brings a return to the core colors.
Me three. Good companies can admit and reverse mistakes like this.
Tom
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| (...) You know what I think is really funny about all the griping about these new Lego colours? As soon as we find out that TLC *does* change its mind, and returns to the old colours, (and understand I'm not saying that they have or will!) everyone (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Me too. I've resisted buying the new colors, but I just started building a set I got as a gift and a couple of things struck me. I just don't buy the lame focus group / crisper pallette explanation. The implementation is just too hurried and (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego)
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