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Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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Date: 
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 16:41:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson, Jr. writes:

HALLELUJAH! LEGO has finally admitted that getting away from made them great
has failed - and miserably. Now that the non-brick and garbage-brick
ventures have been exposed as unprofitable as well as unpopular, they can
get back to the good stuff and make money again!

  Don't be so sure.  They haven't (publicly) identified any specific errors
in judgment, so they might conceivably (though not likely) launch a
full-spectrum, heavily-juniorized modular playset system.  We're only hoping
that they have correctly (to us) identified their problem!
  Personally, I blame the losses on the pictures of alternate models on the
set boxes, which as we all know have become more sophisticated in recent
years.  8^)

     Dave!



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(...) HALLELUJAH! LEGO has finally admitted that getting away from made them great has failed - and miserably. Now that the non-brick and garbage-brick ventures have been exposed as unprofitable as well as unpopular, they can get back to the good (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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