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Re: Silicon Valley techies taken with kids' toy
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:06:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tamyra Teed writes:
> Stop the dumbing down of sets and get out of junior mode and you would
> have NEVER lost that money....
and note also this quote from the aforementioned article:
> Lego Mindstorms Vice President Linda Dalton, who works with master builders
> at the company's colorful Novato, Calif., headquarters, said adult buyers
> boosted sales 300 percent last year.
A 300 percent increase is not inconsequential. If that single fact is true,
we adult fans of lego ARE the lego market!!! I want to know that this
increase in sales is going to lead to deference to our needs as
builders/collectors from TLC -- and I want to know this RIGHT NOW!!!
-- Richard (Anger never sleeps)
P.S. Very nice article, blah, blah, blah...
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| I wish Lego would stop blaming the stuff stated here for their loss... Last week, Lego chief executive Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen -- grandson of the company's founder -- said 1999 ``began in insecurity and nervousness but ended with progress and belief (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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