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Re: My feelings on the Mickey Mouse sets
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lugnet.fabuland
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Sun, 9 Jul 2000 05:24:48 GMT
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In lugnet.fabuland, Ben Roller writes:
> In lugnet.fabuland, Bradley Dale writes:
> > My feelings on the Mickey thing is that Lego should not make products based • on
> > other companies' ideas just to get money. They should use their own ideas,
> > they are better anyway. I don't buy Star Wars, and I won't buy this.
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> Don't forget Pooh, or McDonalds, or Amtrak (4558), or the soccer sets, or
> Shell, or every promo set they've put out.
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> They should stick to things that they came up with, like policemen, firemen,
> the coast guard, racing cars, construction workers, space shuttles, airplanes,
> Santa Claus, Ninjas, and Egypt.
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> Does it really matter if they call him Johnny Thunder or strike a deal and • call
> him Indiana Jones? Either way they are making sets that look like things
> that people already know about. They do everything just to make money, and
> this way they get to sell their sets to people who like Mickey Mouse but have
> never bought any Lego products.
And it's probably ultimately more saleable in the current US than Fabuland
would be. Kids today, especially young ones, are so connected to Disney and
other "brands" that it can be hard to sell them something else.
Also, another point (that the libertarian in me will always point out),
there's nothing wrong with selling the stuff that makes money. If they don't
make money on what they sell, they'll go out of buisiness, and then there
won't be ANY LEGO to buy.
Frank
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| (...) Don't forget Pooh, or McDonalds, or Amtrak (4558), or the soccer sets, or Shell, or every promo set they've put out. They should stick to things that they came up with, like policemen, firemen, the coast guard, racing cars, construction (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.fabuland)
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