 | | Re: Talk me into Bley at BrickFest —Timothy Gould
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| | | --snip-- (...) I really find it hard to see how the colour change would have been detrimental to TLG in any meaningful way. Perhaps you can elaborate on the idea because I just can't see any connection. Tim (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Talk me into Bley at BrickFest —Chris Phillips
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| | | | (...) The company's trajectory over the past decade certainly implies that something took a dig at their business. Late 90's: company in financial trouble, saved by unexpected popularity of MindStorms and Bionicle product lines. Early 2000's, (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Talk me into Bley at BrickFest —Matthew Crandall
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| | | | | (...) Folks-- I don't think "bley" itself was the problem. Good heavens, if a shift in color was sending TLC down the tubes, they were in worse shape then anyone could imagine. No, I suspect the real issue lies deeper than that. Let's try looking at (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Talk me into Bley at BrickFest —Marc Nelson Jr.
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| | | | | (...) As Matthew said, I don't think the color change was a major factor in TLC's business problems. It certainly changed my buying habits, but I'm a minority of a minority among LEGO buyers. On the other hand, the color change needlessly (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Talk me into Bley at BrickFest —Timothy Gould
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| | | | (...) As Marc says the colour change affected a minority within a minority. Hardly likely to be a destructive force for the companies fortunes. Yes TLG support AFOLs and generally try to keep them happy but they are a very insignificant minority in (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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