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Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:37:08 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Kyle D. Jackson wrote:
   You’re confusing the philosophy for a product line with the principles of a company, and those are very different things. It’s more accurate to say: “changing a 20-year-old core color goes against the philosophy of the LEGO product”. I imagine the company’s principles are quite intact, with profit being a primary one. They chose what they felt was the best decision for their product line in order to respect that principle. I doubt any of us have real evidence that the net effects of that decision were poor.

TLC is what it is today (for better and worse) by having more than just profit as a guiding principle. I am sure they made the change because they seriously believed it was an improvement, and I don’t see how the change conflicts with their guiding principles.



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  Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
 
(...) I didn't say profit was their only principle, I said it was a primary one. A company doesn't make changes just because they think it's an improvement. That improvement has to cut costs or increase revenue (via increased customer satisfaction (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
 
(...) If you insist on going at this, why don't you do a petition from a more representative group of LEGO's customers, namely parents? (And they can sign on behalf of their children if you want, as you probably don't want to be "using" children for (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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