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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: (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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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)
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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)
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Steve Anderson wrote in message ... (...) in (...) While this is true Brio hasn't kept everything the same. When I was a kid Brio trains didn't have any plastic parts (mostly wood with metal for the magnets). Today's trains have a lot of plastic and (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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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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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:16:06 GMT, Jesse Long uttered the following profundities... (...) Had just purchased the two silver freestyle sets for my nephew. He enjoyed the two puny Shell sets and Santa set I gave him, and thought that some more bricks (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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I'm quite happy that my 5yr old son is into Legos. He comes up with some pretty interesting ships. Though (by MY standards) they might be cheesy, they are very creative. He does like to play with computer games/Playstation. I think the biggest (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Lacking children of my own so far, my test group is my three nephews(aged 8, 8, and 10). I have also noticed the attention deficit problem, but with an interesting twist. They keep coming back to the Lego. Other toys regularly get abandoned in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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James Brown wrote in message ... (...) 8, 8, (...) regularly (...) that (...) that (...) things, (...) I just got done ranting about this in .dear-lego. TLG is about to lose that always-come-back-to-Lego thing if they let their product and service (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Alex Wetmore wrote in message <916762648.707732@phred.org>... (...) Ah. Seems I've only seen old Brio about then... my mistake. I guess I see the inside of my doctor's waiting room too often! Steve ---...--- Why not visit Llegogogoch? (URL) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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I was interested to see the topic of Brio trains come up during this thread. My son (just turned four) was big into Brio trains for about 18-24 months. He stopped playing with them when he was three. I am not sure why his interest wained but they (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Snip (...) How illustrative, 6550 not being a Town Jr. set :-) If Town '98/99 was like 6550, the Town Jr. debate would never have come up. Eric (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Matthew Bates writes: [Snipped a lot of good stuff] (...) I second that! Lego is still the best construction toy around. However, this is more and more due to the lack of quality you get from the 'other toys' where it used to be due to the quality (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) Point well made. I guess I should have elaborated on what set is his favorite set is versus what sets are easy for him to assemble himself. Setslike the the Recycle Truck (6564), Race and Chase (6333), and the (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In that case, why doesn't TLG make one or two Jr. sets in every theme? That way, young children wouldn't just be limited to Town. And leave non-Jr. sets alone. I don't mind the existence of Town Jr. as much as I mind the loss of (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:38:26 GMT, James Brown uttered the following profundities... (...) I live far to far away to be able to observe such trends, sadly. Though during the 2 days he had them, the games to which he kept returning were not the Lego, (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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<follow-ups set to off-topic.debate> (...) 8, (...) Part of that is the age thing. My two younger nephews are by far more inclined to build something to play with than to simply build something. My older nephew will build and rebuild something until (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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