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Re: Lego article on slashDot
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Date: 
Tue, 4 Sep 2001 13:51:37 GMT
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A quote from the article:

Product cycle times are falling: In time for Father's Day this year, Lego
Direct, the catalog and Internet-sales division, produced the Sopwith Camel
biplane kit. The plane was designed in a single day, and the kit was
approved in something like two weeks.

I find it really hard to beleive that the Sopwith Camel was designed in one
day.  Does anyone know if this is accurate?  If it is, that makes the
Sopwith Camel even more impressive.



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  Re: Lego article on slashDot
 
(...) IIRC... In the previous thread that discussed this (when it was just a Fast Company article instead of a slashdotted phenom) it was stated by someone that it wasn't designed in a day, it was approved in a day because someone (Brad?) walking (...) (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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  Lego article on slashDot
 
Lego article on slashDot titled 'Why Can't LEGO Click?' at ... (URL) which in turn references an article at fastcompany .. (URL) some nice historical notes on TLC Ray (23 years ago, 29-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch) !! 

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