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| (...) Oh boy, sorry you had some many issues with the park, Maarten. That's a bummer. I've routed your notes to the General Manager of the LLD park. I'm not sure what the follow-up will be, but rest assured that your comments are in his inbox. (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jul-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.deutschland, FTX)
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| From July 1 until July 11, 2005 we stayed in Germany. With our seasonpasses we paid several visits to LegoLand Günzburg (nine to be exact: we had planned many other excursions in the area but the kids didn’t like to sit in the car for hours every (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jul-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland.deutschland, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all? was Re: LEGO Factory sets
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| (...) SNIP (...) I think the grouping together of designs reduced the company's risk of getting left with shelves full of the least popular one. I'm not sure how many of you buy for parts like I do, but if I were just out for sand green bricks and I (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: SKUs (was: Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?)
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| (...) I, for one, like some TLC's non-brick offerings. This one sticks out in my mind: (URL) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego)
| | | | | SKUs (was: Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?)
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| (...) Just looking at <shop.lego.com>, I find: 13 keychains 4 pens 4 backpacks 15 books 1 watch and 55 'other' - mostly Bionicle shoes, t-shirts, and costumes Even this listing leaves out tons of other items that can be found in a Brand Retail store (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| In lugnet.build.microscale, Ross Crawford wrote: download the building instructions>, including a PDF or the .lxf file. (...) Um, there is. eg (URL) I want to know is why don't any of the sets have those new cool 8x8 road plates that were in the (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all? was Re: LEGO Factory sets
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| (...) I agree with you Jeff, These parts are VERY small, paying 5 cents per part for parts that are only a fraction of the size of 2x4 bricks seems rather pricey. And then grouping the designs together.... As a town person, I am disappointed that (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all?
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| (...) Having a manufacturing background, and having worked a little ops management.. the more SKU's you have, the more associated costs you're going to have (for example--just boxes alone: -more boxes to design and print--adds money to product, (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) It's not a matter of simply adding more numbers to the system. As was pointed out elsewhere, each new product brings added complexity to the system, as well as additional development costs. Designing and printing one box, for example, is (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Why not smaller & more affordable for all? was Re: LEGO Factory sets
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| (...) Interesting idea, but I'm not sure that I would agree with you. --off-topic personal viewpoint-- This is a similiar line of thinking to the way that the record industry believed (still believes?) that digital music and filesharing was going to (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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