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| (...) Interesting that you mention this, I was concidering an Ambasador Pass for myself this year, but now I'm not so sure it's worth it. I remember when Marine World was sold to Six Flags. It lost most it's charm and became a Magic Mtn clone. Mat (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) According to Lugnet membership statistics, your average AFOL is nearly halfway between 32 and 33, male, probably white (that's a guess rather than a stat), and living in California (ok, really just living in the USA). Of course the Lugnet data (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Follow-up: In the Danish TV News, in two interviews, the new CEO said, that most of the production would probably be moved to China (where Click-its and many parts are already made) and KKK said that the trouble for LEGO was that they had (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) But does he LIKE the product, or is this just a job for him? Ditto the CFO... I have opined in the past that I wonder how many Danes view working at LEGO as just another job rather than as a passion.... Also, I have to say I was puzzled by (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I hope you're right, but the two top guys in TLC now have a combined 5 years experience with the company and it's all on the financial side. Spinning off the parks, or selling them outright, sounds ominous. It suggests a level of distress (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Yeah, he's a sharp cat. As I understand, Kjeld is stepping down as planned (he came back into the daily operations fold to help get things back on track). Now that the Action Plan is in place and seems to be working, he's turning over daily (...) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) He's AFOL age. (average age being 30 ish, not based on any real numbers, just an observation) and probably remembers classic space as a kid. Good news!!!! (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, the new CEO is only (URL) years old> - he was 8 or 9 when Space came out! Good luck to Mr. Knudstorp! Marc Nelson Jr. (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| In lugnet.org.scibrick, Eric Sophie wrote: snip (...) snip (...) Eric, I thought you quit Scibrick ?? -Tom McD. (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp looks really young for a CEO of a company the size of LEGO. Good for him, I hope he can make it happen for LEGO. jt (22 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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