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| From this article about AFOLs: (URL) International Inc., the Danish toy giant behind Lego and all Lego- related stuff, said nearly 10 percent of its plastic brick sales (roughly $180 million worldwide) goes to adults who have no plan to pass the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general) !
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| (...) the norm. No mention of Lugnet, or other electronic resources, though, which is too bad. Golden opportunity missed. Anyone know how this article came to be? Henry hangs out here once in a while I think, but the Michon's don't, I don't think. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| On the topic of factually incorrect, did you notice that in the margin it says "LEGO is plural." My understanding was that LEGO is the company, what we buy are the brick(s) (plural). -Nick Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Also from this article about AFOLs: (...) the Michon family, also of Irvine, and have their machine tell you "Sorry, we're not available now. We're too busy playing Lego"? " I've traded LEGO with someone in the paper! Thats cool to see they got in (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I wonder if $180M is a typo? The 1998 TLG annual report lists net sales of 7,680 million DKK in 1998 and 7,616 million DKK in 1997. In today's[2] USD these figures are 968 million USD and 960 million USD, respectively. Could it be true that (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Perhaps the statement is poorly syntaxed (like this). It may be saying that 180 million worldwide is 10% of it's plastic brick sales. It's still off, but not by as much. IF TLG's brick sales have doubled in the last two years (not (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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