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Re: TLG Marketing
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 13 Dec 1998 01:37:17 GMT
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Beaker wrote:
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> I have just returned from TRU in Kennesaw Georgia. I went there because
> of the report that 1999 adventurers were there. They had the large set,
> the big Aztec Temple set. That answers that question, anyway. They are
> Aztec, not Mayan or Incan. Cool. My hopes are up for a human sacrifice
> kit:)
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> The reason I'm posting, though, is that for the life of me, I do not
> understand the marketing strategy at TLG. I have just returned from a
> consumer hell. It took 45 minutes to drive from my house, 12 miles up
> the interstate, to TRU. Most of the transit time was sitting on the
> exit ramp to a large and popular mall. TRU itself was packed. People
> were killing each other to get Power Rangers, Furbies, whatever. And
> Lego has one new 1999 set on the shelves.
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> Does this make sense to anyone? It happens every year. New sets
> trickle in from December to January, and it's February before they are
> in all the stores. Wouldn't TLG make more money if on the day after
> Thanksgiving their shelves were full of new, never-before-seen sets?
> Even if there is some advantage to slowly releasing sets, why only
> release the most expensive new set in a wildly popular theme? Wouldn't
> you want to offer sets at a variety of price levels? Does anyone who
> understands business and marketing want to weigh in here?
>
> / _ _ / _ _ Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
> ()(-(//((-/
> ============= Jim Baker -- Weather Weasel Extraordinaire ==============
Maybe they did release a bunch and they were all gone. That's what has
already happened around here. Most of the new stuff I saw Thursday is
pretty much gone from Target and Shopko.
--
Paul Foster
http://reality.sgi.com/foster_stco/lego.html
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