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Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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Fri, 10 Dec 2004 04:56:41 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Mark Jordan wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Marc Nelson, Jr. wrote:
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So my question is: who lied to whom and why?
Did Jake cover up the real reason for the color change and give AFOLs a tale
that focused on TLC’s desire for the best product rather than its need to
cut costs? Or did Jake’s bosses decide it was a good idea to give their
spokesman a bogus explanation instead of the real one?
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(Hefts large clue-stick)
The colour change was initiated in 2000 by the Design Group - as an
exercise in improving how the colours play together.
The palette reduction seems to have been initiated in 2004 by the “Sourcing
for the Future” group - as an exercise in saving costs.
That’s 3 to 4 years’ difference. Different group of people. Different motive.
Now please stop accusing people of lying.
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I don’t have any insider information about TLC (perhaps you do?), so I can’t say
with any certainty whether these groups are composed of different people or not.
But both projects (assuming they are seperate projects) are doing the same
thing: cutting colors, adding colors, and changing colors.
Knowing the glacial slowness with which TLC makes changes, isn’t it more likely
that we are looking at a single four-year initiative, rather than one four-year
initiative which wrapped up in 2004 and another completely separate initiative
which began in 2004 - both up which have the same results? It doesn’t strike you
as odd that we were told TLC was changing colors to improve the product, but now
we are reading an internal TLC publication that says they are changing colors to
save money?
Don’t get me wrong - I think cost-cutting was the only good reason for the color
change (and I said as much last
November). I just would rather have had the real story back then, not some
baloney about “muddy palettes”. And before anyone rushes to Jake’s defense, let
me state my belief that Jake gets fed just as much bull as we do by the Billund
braintrust.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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