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Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!
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lugnet.color
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Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:39:46 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Alfred Speredelozzi wrote:
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The problem is, I don’t think most people agree with you. This issue has
touched a nerve in the community and it will continue to hurt until something
real is done to fix it. People are still quite confused as to why this
decision was made.
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It’s part and parcel of the denial that AFOLs are but a passing afterthought to
TLC. Some people can’t get over the fact that, in the scheme of all things
related to Lego in the marketplace, they generally* don’t count in these kinds
of decisions. Yes, lugnet and AFOLs are a community and all, but people need to
stop thinking we’re going to get anything but token recognition out of TLC.
(* ‘generally’ meaning that although, yes, they buy sets and sometimes an awful
lot for individual AFOLs, they still don’t measure up to the vast bulk of
Lego-buying non-AFOL parents of whom are the focus of any studies done by TLC)
TLC is a marketing entity, selling their brand. They’re getting squeezed all
the time by chinese knock-offs, cheaper brands and other toys moving in on their
space (GI Joe vehicles with studs for ‘other compatible toys’), so the brand has
to change to compete. I assume the new parts are to thwart copycat brands,
using patent or copyright laws with new bricks to differentiate them from brand
X.
That’s the facts and they suck, but that’s life.
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| (...) Lego may or may not care what we think. At their peril. And since I have already said my piece, I will add a quote of someone else's to the fray. This was not written about lego: ===quote=== (from (URL) by Rick Phillips) "Marshall Fields, the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) You know what I am fed up with? I am fed up with a zillion posts saying stop crying you babies. You people who are opposed to the voicing of dissent are the ones causing most of the "stirring of the pot" right now, as far as I can see. What is (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jul-04, to lugnet.color) !!
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