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Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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Date: 
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:58:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Scott Sanburn writes:
Ray & All,

BTW (moving off on a tangent), did anyone else notice
what was conspicuous by
its absence form the recent catalog ?  How about Knights
Kingdon, Arctic & Rock
Raiders. Where'd they go ?

If I remember right, they are on two year cycles, and I
think all the ones you mentioned are on it.

Rock Raiders, yes, I think so... 1999 sets.

Arctic and Knights Kingdom?? I'm not sure about that, aren't they 2000 sets?
So they're not quite at end of life yet.

Note that, IIRC, the Spring catalog traditionally has been the "lightest"
and entire lines are sometimes omitted with no implication of their early
termination.

++Lar



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
 
(...) Yes, RR are gone, the others no. Those are 2000. So I missed a year. : ) Scott S. -- (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
 
(...) I'm theorizing here but I think they are possibly trying to scale down the catalogs because of the emergence of shop.lego.com. Even the themes that do appear in the catalog many of them are incomplete and have a "Look for more XXX-theme (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> skrev i meddelandet news:G9JE9r.8LM@lugnet.com... (...) Speaking of 'light' catalogs, my reaction to the Swedish 2001 catalog was: "The heaviest I ever seen (when put on a scale), but not so much Lego (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
 
Ray & All, (...) If I remember right, they are on two year cycles, and I think all the ones you mentioned are on it. Scott S. (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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