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Subject:	Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle
Date:	Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:05:04 GMT
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"Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net> wrote: > In lugnet.dear-lego, Rose Regner writes: > > > I just educate my son on not "collecting" stuff that is just a marketing > > ploy to get you to buy a bunch of sets for some non-existent set. This is > > nothing new in the world of marketing toys. > > I used to collect Magic cards (and play the game). > > I can assure you that you *can* collect a full set of these cards. It just > requires patience, and a lot of money and/or hard trading. > > There's nothing uneducated about it. If you enjoy it, you enjoy it. If you > don't, you don't. ...Related to Magic though was the big disaster they had with Antiquities (at least I think it was Antiquities), where the distribution of cards was not random. Apparently someone at the card plant screwed up and the sorting didn't work out the way it was supposed to. ...This kind of sorting/randomizing is a big part of any "collectible" product like the Bionicle masks... so perhaps we are just seeing an example of it (specially since LEGO does not have much history in the random/collectible aspect of distribution)... ...The other thought is that they may be solving the "random" aspect of it by rolling out parts of the line at different times (which IIRC Decipher did with one of their CCG lines... its a bad way to "randomize" the selection, but it does work). So maybe we just haven't seen the distribution of the other colours yet? --- wubwub wubwub@wildlink.com www.sitcatsit.com <-- a guy and his cat www.wildlink.com <-- the wildlinks < INSERT HUMOROUS TAGLINE HERE >

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) Actually the handling of Magic in the early days carries a few messages that I think Lego might do well to study carefully. The problem with Antiquities was an over-abundance of common cards and poor planning of how they would be inserted into (...) (23 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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		Re: LEGOs dirty trick: making money by not producing all masks as announced.
(...) I used to collect Magic cards (and play the game). I can assure you that you can collect a full set of these cards. It just requires patience, and a lot of money and/or hard trading. There's nothing uneducated about it. If you enjoy it, you (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.technic.bionicle)

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