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Re: Variations in dark blue color.
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lugnet.color
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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:20:47 GMT
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In lugnet.color, John Patterson wrote:
> Do what they did before, the highest quality in the toy industry. They did
> it once, why not put their inspectors in the out sourced Flextronics? It was
> not a problem before, Black was black, blue was blue. At one time they did
> not accept a 3% varation in color. All of a sudden it is ok?
Yes.
I wish I had the article I'm thinking of-- I'll hunt for it. But according to
Jorgen, people at Lego were using quality 'as a crutch'. They refused to do any
cost saving measure because it might sacrifice quality. And supposedly it was
making the company sort of stuck backwards in time, rather than being a modern
company. The company couldn't afford to continue producing super high quality
elements, or it would go bankrupt.
Or, that seems to be their opinion anyway. I'm continually interested in how
Playmobil survives, as its level of quality seems not to have dwindled at all,
yet they seem to get on just fine, and hit a similar target audience.
> I, for one, would rather pay a higher cost than buy substandard items.
As would I. But fat chance that the people willing to do this can convince Lego
to sell super-high quality stuff again.
> And why has Lego never responded to this? They ignore the problem as far as
> I can tell.
You haven't been looking too hard, I guess. They've been talking about this for
the past few years now, but they don't go shouting it from rooftops that their
quality dropped in order to become profitable again. They mostly just focus on
the "profitable" part within press releases and such, but they've acknowledged
the drop in quality if you read carefully and between the lines.
> Not very good customer relations, but that is slowly slipping too.
If you were Lego, would you announce to the world that you were lowering your
standards? I wouldn't. Not that I'd want to lower my standards, of course, but
they're handling it exactly as you'd think they would.
> Sorry, I prefer quality. That is why I collect Lego and not Mega Blocks
Lego's still higher quality than MegaBloks, but I'm not sure it's much higher.
Mostly, I tend to feel that one of Lego's present strengths over MB is its set
design and element distribution. Many of MB's sets are far more juniorized than
the worst-of-the-worst Lego sets. Not that MB doesn't have some decent models
(they do), but generally it seems that Lego is better about those things.
DaveE
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| (...) That is a silly question. INSIST on quality. Would you buy a car that had three fenders one shade off from the rest of the car? Do what they did before, the highest quality in the toy industry. They did it once, why not put their inspectors in (...) (17 years ago, 12-Feb-08, to lugnet.color)
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