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Re: TLG investigation
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:26:42 GMT
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Jeroen Ottens writes:
> Hi everybody,
>
> My name is Jeroen Ottens. I work at Lego Futura Technic Billund (the
> development department of Lego as you will probably know).
> ...
> Yes I am one of TLG
Wow! AND you read Lugnet too?
> ...
> My job is to design some of the new Lego Technic models. However I am also
> involved in a group which is investigating the possibility of starting up
> International Lego Clubs for Juniors and Adults.
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> At the moment we don't know how we should organize such clubs, we don't
> even have cristalclear views on what such clubs would do. But we do know
> that clubs like that exist out there. So what we want to know is:
> How many of those clubs exist?
Don't know any real-life clubs, but I think of Lugnet as a GlobalLegoClub
> Are they real-life based or virtual (internet) based?
> How big are the clubs?
Probably more than 1000 readers. Todd ?
> And more important:
> What could Lego do to help you?
Start making good, solid, nice models and sets again. Even if you keep making
Town Jr. (or City, as it is called in the catalugue), make the 'real' sets for
clubmembers...
> Would an official Lego certificate give extra value, even if it would mean
> that you would loose some of your freedom (Lego has to protect his/her
> image)?
Depends on the contents of the demands TLG would make
> If you are member of a lego-club (and that can be seen in the broadest
> sense as possible) and you think you have something to say, please do.
> If you want to mail me personally, my mailadress is:
> ottens@get2net.dk
> I must however warn you that I am not allowed to tell anything which is not
> publicly known anyway. :(
Okay, answer me this: How come that certain sets are only available in Europe,
some only in the USoA and others only via promotions (ie. the Shell-sets)
And why is it that the StarWars sets come out in April, while some people
ALREADY recieved some of the sets?
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> I'd like to stress the point that this is still an investigation. It's not
> sure yet that this idea about lego clubs will happen.
Hope TLG will work something out.
> Happy building,
You too!
> Jeroen Ottens
Mark
The Netherlands
<< Snipped some cool stuff 'bout a F14>>
"If it ain't Lego, it don't count"
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| (...) It's impossible to know for sure, but I'd suppose there are somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 total readers, all things considered (that is, lurkers and overlap between known sets of people due to multiple e-mail addresses). Some details: ~700 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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