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This is why TLG lost money
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:15:48 GMT
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This message is from a good friend who is considering what to buy for her 6
yr. old son, whom I have been introducing to Lego:
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Walked all over Toys R Us last night. You are going to need to work on me
more. I was very interested in this moving cars and truck building kit by
MegaBlocks. It was a perfect price and offered many options.
Legos- There was too many lego products to choose from. I'm still not
sure what to go with. I'll have to check out the catalog when it gets here.
:}
A
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Why can't Lego come up with a sets which don't contain dopey pieces like
"Freestyle" (who is that name supposed to appeal to anyway, the 7 yr. old
snowskiing set?) but allow a kid to build a variety of interesting vehicles or
buildings--and come with some instructions for doing so?
I've pointed her to Lego Dacta, but I fear those sets will be a bit out of her
price range. So she'll probably end up buying the MBs and get inferior bricks
but a superior set. (I'll, of course, still get him the real thing.)
Sorry for my rant, maybe should have gone in the open letters group.
-John Van
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: This is why TLG lost money
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| (...) Know what you mean. since the last few day I browse Ebay (just discover it) and pause magasine to see what poeple have to sell and whoaw there was some great kit in the '80s but since a few years it keep losing the realisim whit too many theme (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: This is why TLG lost money
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| I'm not sure what you mean by Freestyle containing "dopey" pieces? Freestyle is the mainstay of a lot of RTLers who refuse to pay exhorbitant prices for sets that contain very few bricks and a bunch of highly specialized pieces that have no/little (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: This is why TLG lost money
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| Lego needs to change the way it sells sets. Theme collectors(like me with castle sets) I begin to drool everytime someone offers older sets for sale. And I always seem to miss them. I called England and Germany about limited production runs. If lego (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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