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| (URL) of various celebrities related to the 30th anniversary. WOrth checking out! Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115    (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general) 
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|  |  | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO 
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| "Allan Johansen" <f2k@chaotica.dk> wrote in message news:K7CFDy.4I0@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) How much more money would you spend or would you simply spend your money differently? Exrapolate how much you might spend to a 1000 people? (...)   (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general) 
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| "Purple Dave" <purple_daveAThotmailDOTcom> wrote in message news:K7CvLF.3no@lugnet.com... [ .... snipped ... ] (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I had breakfast with Jake one time when I was in Dallas (probably 4-5 years ago) and he told me the story of (...)   (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general) 
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| (...) Actually, it's not a recent trend - it's a rediscovered trend. Look at the 39x Hobby Model sets from 1975 & 1976. They were clearly aimed at adults. Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115    (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general) 
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|  |  | Coagulations to A Very Talented First Lego League Competitor. 
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| (URL)    (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.people.teens, lugnet.general) 
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| (...) Honestly, my impression of the Lego hobbyist community is that there was a boom in growth of AFOL purchasing around 1998-2000. My honest-to-god guess is that AFOLs weren't worth marketing to back in, say, 1992, but we WERE worth marketing to (...)   (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general) 
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| (...) Yes! Me and the rest of you... Well in appreciation terms anyway. God Bless, Nathan    (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX) 
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| When it comes to Lego I'm with Tim... ; ) God Bless, Nathan    (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general) 
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| (...) Both halves? Do adult fans represent 50% of the market? Cheers Richie Dulin CO Legeaux    (17 years ago, 18-Sep-08, to lugnet.general, FTX) 
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|  |  | Re: Improving the adult image of LEGO 
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| (...) That's exactly it. If you're looking for black 2x4 bricks, the market is flooded with them, so BL prices have settled pretty low (and the rarer parts in a given set help offset those low prices so that sellers will still find it worth parting (...)   (17 years ago, 17-Sep-08, to lugnet.general) 
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