 | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Marc Nelson, Jr.
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| | | (...) Not knowing what is going on at LEGO, I have to take them at their word. If they say, "We screwed up, we're going back to what worked", why not believe them? When they said, "Kids are dumb, so we have to make video games and crappy sets, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | (...) Because they've said it directly to my face. I didn't believe it, not in the way most folks here see it meaning. I saw a face that wanted (in a fantasy) to have things back-to-basics, but was having say something else. The words spoken to me (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | | (...) Right. This is why I always figured we AFOL on Lugnet and on RTL should get favored treatment (advance notice, specialized treatment, etc.). We are free advertising (mouth to mouth writ VERY large internet-wise!) if there ever was such a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Paul Gyugyi
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| | | | | Suz, you've become wise beyond my expectations. I now go out of my way to read your posts, whereas before I tended to skip the defender-of-the-lego-copyright posts. :) What I _hope_ the press release says is: "All that money we were going to spend (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | | | | Wow. Thank you for the fantasy. I felt whisked along, as in some psychedelic trippy state. I want to go on that ride again! (I say with wobbly knees, stepping out of the Fun House car) Maybe next time the ride will include: Visions of LEGO DACTA (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Michael Horvath
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| | | | | | | | You're not going to go into that story about meeting Timothy Leary at Legoland, CA, again are you? : ) (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Michael Horvath
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| | | | | | Yeah, I appreciate your posts, too. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Kyle D. Jackson
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| | | | | (...) Suzanne, that's the most concise statement of this fact that I've ever read. I've always felt there's some delusions here about us being some significant portion of the total sales market. Even as far as us being a tool..., well, there's a lot (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Timothy D. Freshly
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| | | | | | "Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:G9KIrI.Mtw@lugnet.com... (...) make (...) especially (...) I agree that LEGO could survive without AFOLs but I also think that we are an evergrowing slice of their market. (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000 —Kevin Loch
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| | | | (...) advocate, (...) on (...) um, big boobs sell dolls. Juniorized sets don't sell. (...) its (...) World Domination, WTF? Do you mean trying to become the #1 recognized brand around the world or something else? (...) 10% *is* a market. KL (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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