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Re: Lego: Toy of the Century! (according to Fortune)
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:07:48 GMT
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Scott E. Sanburn wrote:
> John Gerlach wrote:
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> > "During the past five decades, more than 203 billion LEGO bricks have been
> > sold world-wide (more than 33 for every person on the planet)."
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> > Hmmm... I think a lot of us here on LUGNET are skewing that 'per person'
> > number UP just a bit!
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> > Or, if I look at it another way, I've probably got several thousand other
> > people's share of bricks at my house... --grin--
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> > JohnG
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> Only 33? Hmmm... maybe enough for a Town Junior skyscraper. :)
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> I am sure between Gary Istok, Larry P, the train groups, and Tom
> Stangl, etc. we have definitely bumped that number up! Good selection,
> however, and adults were mentioned in the ad.
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> Scott "Only at 110,000 bricks & 1300 minifigs" Sanburn
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> _________________________________________________________
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> Scott E. Sanburn
Yeah, if you take me, Lar, Tom, Conan and the train groups out of the picture
it would be more like 12 bricks per person ............. heh-heh-heh ......just
kidding.
To paraphrase the famous statesman Everett McKinley Dirksen, "a billion here, a
billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real LEGO".
Gary Istok
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| (...) Naaahhh - I probably only have 200-250,000 bricks or so. Though I don't even want to TRY to add it up. 30+ 5571s is a good sized chunk of my boxed sets, along with 5 8880s (and to think, I owned NO 8880s a year ago!), 12+ 1252-1256 Shell sets, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego: Toy of the Century! (according to Fortune)
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| (...) Only 33? Hmmm... maybe enough for a Town Junior skyscraper. :) I am sure between Gary Istok, Larry P, the train groups, and Tom Stangl, etc. we have definitely bumped that number up! Good selection, however, and adults were mentioned in the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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