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Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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Date: 
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:14:10 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:

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.

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 favorites online at www.lego.com/shop ".

It makes sense to me.  I think they will have to continue to have a printed
catalog but I think they will probably all be scaled back because of the
appearance of the online store (with the possible exception of the Holiday
Catalog).


Just one possible theory


Eric Kingsley

The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/



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(...) -Suz (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Eric Kingsley" <kingsley@nelug.org> wrote in message news:G9JEzM.AHB@lugnet.com... (...) ^^^ I would sure hope not... ;-) -Tim (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ugh- at least you can turn a physical page in less than 2 minutes. -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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