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Re: "If it were my toy company..."
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Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:22:57 GMT
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Lawrence Wilkes wrote:
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> I think we confuse the desires of a few 100's of AFOL's with lego's desire to
> sell 100,000's of each set to kids.
That may be true, but I think many non-AFOL parents (who played with
Lego as children) would buy the re-released classic sets "for their
kids." It might even bring alot of people out of their dark ages.
--Colin
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| (...) There's nothing quite like nostalga to make people want, nay - need, something. Someone at my work saw my offer on the internal newsgroup to buy any childhood LEGO from them and contacted me, ready to sell. I made the mistake of pointing them (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) trouble is I dont think people are thinking demand and supply. The reason people are willing to pay so much, is because they are not available. If they were freely available, then they would not be in so much demand. Evidence is that when they (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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