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(...) Not just on LUGnet, but with any real-life kids and parents I've ever talked to. (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I hope you read all the ideas as well ;-) (...) Not to mention the age old issue of 'comerical' confidentiality. (...) Commerical Fanzine? Might need some new staff and an editor but I feel this might be a way of explaning things. It worked (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) "appropriateness." <snip> (...) These words seem somewhat hollow to me. I emailed Brad at Lego Direct over a month ago and asked for a reply indicating receipt (since I knew he was busy) and have yet to receive anything. But the server did not (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Yep, my first bulk purchase was in the late 70s, so I was around 10 at the time. I still have a couple of accessory packs from that purchase, still unopened ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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In lugnet.general, Kerry Raymond writes: (snip) (...) My first bulk purchase was in 1986 or so, and was from the UK. Sampsonite here had a crummy selection!. I got, IIRC, 25 quid worth of lego, including the (brand new) double acting pnumatics, and (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) of (...) LEGO (...) are! True, many AFOLs are buying Lego on-line but they are probably a group well-suited to e-tailing. Why? AFOLs will usually know exactly what they want to buy -- they know they want Lego, they know they want certain (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I can't belive this is true. Perhaps you meant "Parents have less time to spend with their kids." Everything I have heard, from kids, parents and various toy store employees that interact directly with them, is that "this set doesn't have (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I think we must wait for Harry Potter at years-end for the best of 2001. My hope is that it targets the audience that will sit still to read a 714 page book more than the audience for a 2-hour movie. -Erik (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Don't forget his motto, 'Only the best is good enough.' I wonder when this was taken out to the curb? It *is* getting better though, and people *are* listening and responding. Just its not entirely visible to everyone yet. Still, 2001 (besides (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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I myself have read 40+ messages & Ashly's response. I offer this thought.... LEGO by Danish definition means "to play well" You can interpurt this how ever you want but following this statement, it is said that 3 peices 4x4x2 can combine to produce (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) [ some simple math calculations about to go totally off the deep end ] If TLC has an annual revenue of $1.1B, and somewhere I recall that wholesale on TLC product is about 60% of retail, then that represents about $1.833B at MSRP. Then I will (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Many of us spend way less than that. ($500/year?). However, I think you're also far underestimating our numbers. There's 645 *paid* LUGnet members, and I'd guess that it's safe to figure there's 20x that who haven't paid. (Even if they aren't (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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[snip] (...) I ofter wonder about that myself. First... I tried, in a VERY unscientific way, to determine for myself what percentage of the Lego market we represent. Personally I spend about $5000-$8000 on Lego each year. If we multiply that by the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"John Robert-Blaze Kanehl" <johnNYblaze44@webtv.net> wrote in message news:G3JzJv.DB4@lugnet.com... (...) posts (...) factors (...) to (...) require (...) Company (...) us (...) but (...) the (...) beat (...) and (...) What I also meant that they (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hello Ashley, as I must accept your decision for "juniorizing" (even if I have mixed feelings about it) I think that the result is bad for the hard-core-legoists. Browsing through the 2001 lego prospect, I badly miss more big technic boxes. But (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) EXCELLENT POINT! Ironic how Many large Toy companies have been complaining that their "opportunity years" to sell to kids have declined by 50% and Lego can't beat off 20+ year buyers with a stick. Lego made a great product, marketed it pretty (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Ashley Glennon" <ashleyg@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:G3HsC9.JG@lugnet.com... (...) [snipped small part about time and appropriateness] (...) build, (...) I was wondering, reading those two paragraphs... 1) LEGO asks kids what they want (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) that? (...) I'm (...) implementation (...) Indeed. As a player of many different video games over the years (Everything from the Atari 2600 on), the LEGO versions seem a little..... well boring. Most of them are targeted along the lines of (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) But it also depends on having people unload the cartons, unpack the cartons, put the unit packages (which are higher-priced because they have to have "eye appeal") on shelves that mostly have to be located in high-rent districts so they're (...) (24 years ago, 5-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) That's fine -- in fact, it's great for them to tie in with other media. I'm a big fan of where they're going with the Rock Raiders and Alpha Team multimedia (in the true sense) concepts, although I think the implementation could be better. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.dear-lego)
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