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  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) Please try to refrain from name calling and personal attacks when formulating your responses. To quote a previous post I made: "A little more civility and politeness and a little less vitriol go a long way to having people respect your opinion (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for discussion!
 
(...) I haven't forgotten about you either Tim! Just wanted to let you know I care (that, and whence next our paths cross, I shall gladly treat you to some goodies from Panera :-D). Pumpkin muffins...*droooool* (...) I agree! It's just now there's (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) I just wanted my message to be seen by the people who saw his message. I didn't want to just reply to it, because it would be lost among all the other replies. Crossposting the same way he did seemed the only other option. If you can suggest (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) Was that changed back because of a letter to the CEO sent by a member of LUGNET? I'm sorry I must have missed that one. Yeah, changing DUPLO was a mistake, and they changed it back. But that was the kind of mistake that affects their core (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) I'm not brown-nosing. I'm just disgusted with the way some so-called Adult fans of LEGO act like three-year-olds when the company makes a change they don't agree with. (...) Yeah, they're a company that needs to focus on its core business - (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) The only message Ben is sending is that he is a WHINER. LEGO knows that AFOL's are not its main customers, and whatever changes they make or don't make have nothing to do with what AFOL's want. Messages like this just make AFOL's look like (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: My open letter.. to the WORLD
 
(...) Amen, my brother. Amen. - /-ndrew <>< (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
(...) Dear Orion, I am very sorry about this, but we had not the intention to speak for all AFOLS. How could anybody do so? This was just a single mistranslation and it slipped through the many times the letter got proofread (in fact we worked very (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
(...) I've got lots of suggestions for how you worded the letter, but my biggest one--if the letter doesn't fit on one page, revise until it is one page. Try to keep your passion for the color change out of the discussion--because it only makes one (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
(...) First, if the packs sold out in days or weeks, not months--perhaps *someone* would notice. If it took 8 months to sell 10,000 packs...that's and average of 42 packs a day. That's not a very rapid fill rate, nor is it something for a (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
 
  My open letter.. to the WORLD
 
Grey, bley, stone, md stone, maersk grey, whatever. But these flesh tone figs make me throw up in my mouth. -nk (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)  
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
(...) That word is slang and has several meanings. to m******ate. -- an act or instance of m******ation. something which belies self-indulgent or egotistical behaviour a person exhibiting self-indulgent behaviour; a wanker. wank off, (used (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)  
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
Some snippage. (...) I agree with Peter, I think excessive crossposting is something to be avoided. And I'm not the only person that feels that way. I'd also remind those thinking of crossposting excessively (for shock, for humor, to make a point, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.admin.general)  
 
  Re: Civil War!
 
(...) I wonder if we should all put away our toys (or dump them off at the local children's hospital, donate to the tsunami children) and go outside for a bicycle ride, or grab a book or something. -Patrick (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
I agree with the above letter. Partick S. O'Donnell (39) Lancaster County, PA, USA Loosing much interest in purchasing LEGO as a direct result of this color change issue. Purchases off by 80% in 2004 as compared with the average of the past 12 (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
(...) Lets be nice here! - big wank, "eh" would have been kind Canadian thing to write as it would leave it up for debate or disagreement. I see no "facts" to support Ben being a "wank". -Patrick (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Civil War!
 
(...) All right, Brickwars it is! We can have a massive battle at Brickfest, the color-fast against the color-less. um, are there any bley minifigs out yet? (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
Andrzej M. Szlaga (25), Warsaw (Poland), approx. 1500 PLN before 2004, I haven't purchased any sets containing new colours (and I'm not going to). (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
 
(...) I read that paragraph slightly different to you. Its hard to explain, so here's an illustration of how I read it: General: Tomorrow at 0600 we storm Omaha Beach. Private: I trust that you and the rest of the general staff you have arranged air (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
 
  Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
 
(...) I think the main reason the dissenters spoke up is that on first glace (and the CEO of LEGO will probably only skim it if the letter even gets to him) this letter purpost to represent the entire AFOL community. The opposition want to make it (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)


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