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Re: TLG is loosing money!
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:25:55 GMT
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Mark de Kock wrote in message ...
> 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!
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 refreshingly simple - same as in the
70s... no stupid train shapes here either, every train looks like a train in
use today, and the most technologically advanced thing they have is a
battery powered train. I doubt there'll ever be Brio Jr.
I guess you carve yourself a niche and keep it, rather than try and move the
niche every 12 months!
(Sorry if this makes no sense - I seem to have contracted flu. Bah!)
Steve
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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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: (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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