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Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:27:46 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
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> You know what we'd do if they discontinued Mindstorms? We'd say "Gee, that's a
> shame" and go one with our lives, without whining like a bunch of petulant brats
> who didn't get what they wanted for Christmas.
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> We wouldn't write "open letters" to the CEO's of large toy companies to get them
> to revert to decisions already made across multiple product lines and millions
> of dollars of inventory.
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> We wouldn't make flagrant accusations of Lego employees of being untruthful and
> demanding resignations from people we have a passing knowledge of.
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> We wouldn't continue flaming along this stupid topic for several months on end.
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> And for the love of god, we wouldn't throw a "hissy-fit" about something Lego
> did. We'd deal. We'd go buy Basic Stamps or Fischertechnik or Meccano. Or
> maybe we'd go and have dinner with our loved ones, play with our children, hang
> out with our friends and do something else other than draft a eight page screed
> against the tint of little plastic blocks. We'd live with it. And we'd go on
> with our lives instead of picking at it like a six year old picks at scabs after
> scraping himself on the jungle gym at lunch.
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> You know why you're being "crapped on"? It's because people who really dislike
> this colour change and making a fuss about it are ruining it for those who
> couldn't give a flying frick in a rolling donut. There's countless opportunities
> being lost with Lego for interesting projects, there's precious credibility
> damaged after years of trying to build a rapport with the company.
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> There's a large part of this "community" who doesn't really give a damn about
> the colour change, or didn't like it but have resolved themselves to deal with
> it. We sit and wait while it blows over so we can hear about new stuff like
> Lego Ambassadors or Roadshow 2005 or whatever's coming down the pipe. There's a
> spotlight being wasted on people whining, when it could be on cool new projects
> AFOLs are doing or how we could increase the AFOL-Lego Company connection. But
> meanwhile, we're burning it away on the vocal minority.
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> That's why I'm incensed about this: Stop ruining it for the rest of us.
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> Every rtlToronto dinner I go to, I hear stuff like "Did you see so and so's post
> about colour change in .whateverthehell? It had 150 replies!" I'm sick of it.
> I'd rather hear about Steve's Balls than to hear about these topics we've
> rehashed so many hundreds of times over and over. It's because we could be
> doing something more useful or interesting, but we're all to busy rubbernecking
> about this ongoing slop-fest on what "horrible injustices Lego has done to us
> this week". It's time to change the discussion topic. Change the channel!
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> Calum
Calum,
I agree with you on this completely.
I have found myself reading the rtl board because it's now the most entertaining
of all the LUGNET boards! The current color change flame in new clothing has
become something of an old, bad joke to me, and I feel, like you , that this has
hurt us and our credibility more than anything else.
I am a graphic artist and only been building actively since 2000, when I
discovered LUGNET and woke from my dark ages...which means that I had other
interests then (drawing and watercolor) and should anything happen with my LEGO
hobby(and I can say that it's a pretty strong hobby now!), I have a lot more
interests to look at and play with.
There's a lot more important things to be concerned about.
Joe Meno
.space paparazzi, NCLUG Administrator
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