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Re: Can we help?
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:03:40 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Jake McKee wrote:
> To be completely clear... we have NOT announced we are moving production to
> China. Rather we have simply been mentioning that, as good business practice, we
> are looking at options. As was mentioned elsewhere, 80% of the toy business has
> it's goods produced in China. It would be silly not to at least consider why.
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> But there has not been a decision made one way or the other at this point.
Just a word of warning, and pointing out the obvious:
If LEGO moves production to China, expect leaks of set designs, the copying of
sets by clone bricks, etc. to happen on a regular basis. The legal department
will have their hands full!
Just look at all the Hollywood films that are available in China shortly after
their theatrical release!
-Bryan
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| (...) Already happens. Sometimes people get unauthorized access to dealer catalogs (those which local stores use to order stock from), and other times people sneak photos at early toy shows that are not supposed to be open to the press (like the one (...) (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) A good observation! With production outside China, there are no leaks of set designs or copying of clone sets... (...) Another good observation! It was obviously a huge mistake to start producing those Hollywood films in China... Cheers Richie (...) (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) Bad form to reply to my own message, but judging from some replies to my posting, I can see that I didn't make myself clear in the original posting. What I meant to say was this: If LEGO moves production to China, expect an enormous amount of (...) (20 years ago, 1-Nov-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) To be completely clear... we have NOT announced we are moving production to China. Rather we have simply been mentioning that, as good business practice, we are looking at options. As was mentioned elsewhere, 80% of the toy business has it's (...) (20 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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