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Re: The Official "Issues List"
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lugnet.ambassadors
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Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:09:31 GMT
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In lugnet.ambassadors, Brian Davis wrote:
> In lugnet.ambassadors, William R. Ward wrote:
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> > > > There are no space or castle or any other genre that
> > > > does anything nearly as visible to the public eye as
> > > > train clubs.
> > >
> > > FIRST LEGO League had "nearly 90,000 children participating
> > > worldwide 8,846 teams" last year, and this year the projection
> > > is for over 106,000 children. [...]
> >
> > Children. Sorry I wasn't clear. I was talking about AFOLs.
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> Why? Your thrust seemed to be the PR value of the 9V trains line - and PR value
> is to the public, not just AFoLs (in fact, AFoLs, as has been discussed, seem to
> make up a small percentage of the sales... although I personally seem to be
> fighting that trend this year :-).
OK, to phrase things more accurately, of all the activities that AFOLs do, train
shows are the most visible to the public. Joe made an interesting point about
BrickJournal, but I've always assumed that BrickJournal was "preaching to the
converted," not to the general public.
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| (...) William, BrickJournal is for the converted, and for those who are curious about getting into the hobby, and seeing what potential exists for LEGO creations. In essence, it's for those that want to learn more, as well as those who are already (...) (17 years ago, 3-Aug-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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| (...) Why? Your thrust seemed to be the PR value of the 9V trains line - and PR value is to the public, not just AFoLs (in fact, AFoLs, as has been discussed, seem to make up a small percentage of the sales... although I personally seem to be (...) (17 years ago, 30-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors)
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