 | | Re: LEGO name branding (was: Re: Stuff I'd like to see...) —Todd Lehman
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| | | (...) I mean that LEGO desperately needs (IMHO) to break the association with "lego" or "legos" meaning any old random kind of plastic building bricks to the average consumer -- not that it necessarily needs to break the association between the name (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | LEGO name branding = Builder's Reverie —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | (...) I agree that TLC needs to accomplish this to remain competitive. How and why this will prove difficult is a big subject. Here's a short list of problems: 1. Quality control of the brick has dropped -- to be number one, the product itself must (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO name branding = Builder's Reverie —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | (...) Agreed. I'm sure many people have noticed lately that they are de-molding the bricks WAY too soon. Grab a nice new set with long 1x bricks in it - look at the sides of those bricks. Many of them will have sags in them from being pulled from (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO name branding = Builder's Reverie —Troy Cefaratti
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| | | | | | (...) product (...) means (...) the (...) at the (...) pulled from (...) sloppy). (...) And I thought that it was just me... I've got quite a few 1x16 bricks and 12x24 megabricks now, and when assembling them into my new ship, i've noticed that some (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LEGO name branding = Builder's Reverie —Paul Foster
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| | | | | | Buy a copy of #5321, the large white plate part pack and you will see a poor quality control. I bought 4 of these last weeks and any plate longer than 10 studs was twisted in all 4 of the copies of 5321 that I bought. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO name branding (was: Re: Stuff I'd like to see...) —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | (...) An anecdote to make the point: I am inside a Safeway supermarket in Oakland, CA very early this morning when my eye gets caught by the image of a small box with a large yellow sales tag in front of it that reads, in part: "Nascar Legos" (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO name branding (was: Re: Stuff I'd like to see...) —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) Wow. I'd think that Lego would probably want to hear about that... eric (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO name branding (was: Re: Stuff I'd like to see...) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) It's too bad that vandalism is illegal. ;-) (...) Eeeek! :-v Ptah! Wow, that's horrible. :-( Was it a hand-written tag from some clueless store employee or did it appear to printed by Ritvik? --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO name branding (was: Re: Stuff I'd like to see...) —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | (...) I don't think it was Ritvik that printed the store tag, but it was a nicely printed large yellow tag -- perhaps 3" x 4" with a red trim and black lettering. They probably laser print them in the back or something. But it was exactly as you (...) (25 years ago, 3-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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