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| (...) My experience as a child was just the opposite. I always had too many colors and not enough of the same colors. That made me want to buy more sets, of course...and it still does. Marketing, marketing, marketing. (...) LOL...Yeah, right. Who do (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) I was just going to let this thread pass on by like so many other TLC-bashing threads, but your comments here rang the proverbial bell in my mind. As a kid (somewhere between 9 and 12 years old) I used to have a friend that would come over and (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) TLC makes the same amount of money on a set you buy from the discount bin as they do on a set you buy off the shelves of the same store the day it first comes in. What buying from the discount bins *does* do, on the other hand, is send the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yes and No. I'm not sure how much the store's Corporate office watches a particular set (unless it proves to be extremely unpopular). I'm of the opinion that the corporate buyers are watching the overall performance of: 1) Lego products, 2) a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually, what I meant was... Who does this particular quoted marketing and/or PR person think they're fooling? Does this particular LEGO employee think LEGO fans are idiots? Why else the stock answer? --Todd (not implying that spotter bricks (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Thanks for clearing this up. I would tend to agree that using the spotter brick explanation to explain the wacky color changes on the *outside* of a lot of recent sets (e.g. the Imperial Shuttle(tm), what's wrong with either white or gray??? (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Help me out: was that last bit straight or ironic? Steve (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Were those my only two choices? :-) I didn't find it all that hard to parse, it is only at [not level]2.. I've seen Todd do 5 or 6 without breaking a sweat, and he's wasn't even BORN in Boston. FUT o-t.fun unless you weren't being funny, in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Hey! I resemble that remark! Eric Kingsley (Boston, born and raised) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yea, Todd's done a pretty good job of adapting and learning to "speak the language very well" (1) (1) Extremely obscure Boston (well, actually Cambridge, got to get your cities straight, can't have hoity toity folks from certain universities (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | Language (was: Re: TLG and "Seeding")
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| (...) In fact, I've been known to comment that we drawl our Rs around here to make up for the fact that y'all don't say yours. :) -JDF (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I'm guessing you turn 38 tomorrow (based on when you got your first degree from RPI). As for the quote I don't have a clue what you are talking about. If the quote stood alone I would think it was a Bushism! Happy Birthday, Maggie C. (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Ah, thanks. That explains it. Steve (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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