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Re: A&E's Top 10 Toys
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:43:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, R2 wrote:

It seems they were flooded with emails from Lego fans, irate that Lego was
not listed. The show stated that Lego was #11 (what gives?, obviously not an
engineer in the bunch). They quoted atlas two people, the only one that I
remember was yoda777. Is this someone from here?

Smells like a cop-out to me.  The "Top 10" wasn't an objective list from
the get-go.  They didn't build the list from sales figures, or
product-longevity, even massive 'nostalgia surveys'.  They may have used
those tools as guidelines, but the final list was the subjective opinion
of people working on the show.  So claiming that some particular item
was 'just below the cut-off' is BS.

Steve



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  Re: A&E's Top 10 Toys
 
I posted this a while back. I caught the tail end of an A&E program that covers the top ten destinations to live, for romance, toys etc. This episode covered the top ten romantic getaways ( I was not watching the show, having a 5 week old kabob does (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)

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