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TLG is loosing money!
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:47:46 GMT
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This morning, I read in the newspaper that TLG Denmark will have to "dumb"
1,000 of its 10,000 workers due to bad commercial results! TLG itself is not
in great danger, but it has lost a lot of customers to electronic toys and
computergames.
IMHO: perhaps Town Jr. has something to do with it?
Could it be that we will have to tell our (grand)children of the good ol'days,
when there was this building toy called Lego?
I hope not!
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| Mark de Kock wrote in message ... (...) not (...) ol'days, (...) They're loosing money? I hope they funnel it into product development. Or maybe give me some... I think the fact that kids the world over are falling prey to the Nintendo syndrome, and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: TLG is loosing money!
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| Mark de Kock wrote in message ... (...) not (...) ol'days, (...) It'd be interesting to find out how wooden-train manufacturer Brio's finances are, I think. Rather than dumb down building in favour of playability, they've left their trains (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: TLG is loosing money!
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| I read in the WSJ a couple of weeks ago that the big toy stores like Toys R Us and WalMart etc also had a bad season, people are getting really bored with all the junk they sell, whereas the smaller speciatlity toy shops improved sales. Items like (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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