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| In lugnet.dear-lego, John Heins wrote: <snipped lots of stuff that I agree with...> (...) Actually, the prices LEGO charges in their by-weight locations have proven to be somewhat higher than the Pick-a-Brick cups, even if you don't pack the cups. (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| Having seen the "new" grays for the first time, I'm not that annoyed with the "light" gray color. The variation is "cooler" than the old light gray but not that different. Just as older light grays exposed to sunlight take on a slightly "yellowish" (...) (21 years ago, 4-Feb-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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| (...) Oops--my cynicism is showing, alas. All too often, it seems, corporations like to pretend that their biggest changes are entirely driven by internal decisions made in a vacuum; they seldom if ever acknowledge that a competitor's practices are (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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| (...) Well, I would assume this-- what else would motivate change? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" (and, of course, it's cheaper to do nothing), and perhaps the concept of all yellow figs isn't necessarily "broke", but perhaps profits are. Perhaps (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) Out of curiosity, does anyone suppose that TLG's decision to move toward flesh tones might have been, at least in part, motivated by the fact that successful competitor brands have been marketing flesh-toned figures for years? This, coupled (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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