 | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | (...) Yes. Obviously! Why wouldn't it be? They said they're not changing back. (the preLEGO pics from the Times Square TRU PaB... that's all new light grey near as I could tell) As I commented somewhere else, this set is going to make those that (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Steve Demlow
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| | | | (...) I am certainly overanalyzing this paraphrase of what was most likely an offhand remark, but I find this remark puzzling. What part of the fan base would be set off by returning to the old colors? I do recall seeing a small handful of posts of (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) I don't know for sure, I didn't ask, but I would GUESS those people that have already made an investment in sets that contain new gray? ++Lar (from AMS... KLM lounge to be specific) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Tim David
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| | | | (...) I think you are misreading. My impression (from what I read) was that Jorgen found it dispiriting that however good a model he designed, there would be people that didn't like it simply because it was bley. Not, as you seem to have read it, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 — Jake McKee
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| | | | | (...) I'm going to make some big fat frothing assumptions here and try to "explain" Jorgen's comment - at least from my position in the company. This is meant as nothing more than a helpful hint as to this particular situation (and a bit of "Jake's (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX) !
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| | | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Walter Walters
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| | | | | | | (...) Thanks for the discussion Jake. It's certainly true that you can't please all of the people all of the time. The danger of course is that it's easy to fall into the trap of dismissing contrary opinions, since "someone will always be (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX) !
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —David Eaton
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| | | | | | | | (...) 1) The company. They'd lose money and waste ABS that they bought buy buying back the hordes of old gray. Also takes people's time (aka more money) to make the change happen. 2) Various fringe fans. "I invested a lot of money into the new light (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Kelly McKiernan
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| | | | | | | (...) I can see how frustrating it can get. My job involves a lot of that as well, I design web interfaces that have to be useful for absolute noobs ("what's this clicky thing on a string fer?") as well as power users... it's either "too hard" or (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Steve Lane
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| | | | | | (...) Hey Jake, my ears are burning :-). Steve (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005 —Steve Demlow
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| | | | (...) Entirely possible, although the context of the rest of Larry's message is about Jorgen being put off by the Lugnet color discussion. As far as I recall that discussion has been entirely about the colors themselves, not the designs of the sets (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-05, to lugnet.color)
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