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Re: Fwd from a builder: Colors don't match, among other things!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:50:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, James Brown wrote:
In lugnet.general, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
Ken Koleda wrote:

TLC has said on
numerous occaisons that AFOLs are just not a big enough market segment.

Are you serious???

If by "big enough" they mean more than 50% of the actual head-count,

Yes, he's serious.  By "not big enough", if memory is serving me correctly (too
lazy to go digging through Lugnet's back catalogue of conversations), they mean
"less than 5% of our sales volume"

95% of the Lego that leaves the shelves ends up in the hands of a kid.

Same reasoning why they don't cater to the Macintosh with their computer
products - too small an audience.

Mark



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  Re: Fwd from a builder: Colors don't match, among other things!
 
(...) Yes, he's serious. By "not big enough", if memory is serving me correctly (too lazy to go digging through Lugnet's back catalogue of conversations), they mean "less than 5% of our sales volume" 95% of the Lego that leaves the shelves ends up (...) (21 years ago, 17-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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