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Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Sat, 4 Mar 2000 04:11:39 GMT
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 23:12:30 GMT, "Christian Gemuenden"
<GECH1@t-online.de> wrote:

> Hey Richard,
> I think Todd only tried to point out that the 300 percent increase was not
> affecting the whole company, only the Mindstorms-sub-market. This simply
> means that adults had a large influence on these products, not on all sets.
> But as a conclusion you can easily say, that the rest of the products (like
> Town or Castle) would be a lot more succesful too, if they were not dumbed
> down but marketed to adults also. TLC should realize why the Mindstorms

Or maybe what LEGO doesn't realize is that whatever normal theme sales
are, AFOL's are a more significant percentage of it than they
assume...



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  Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
 
Hey Richard, I think Todd only tried to point out that the 300 percent increase was not affecting the whole company, only the Mindstorms-sub-market. This simply means that adults had a large influence on these products, not on all sets. But as a (...) (27 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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