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Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:28:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
> 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.
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> 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 ".
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> 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).
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> Just one possible theory
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> Eric Kingsley
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> The New England LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nelug.org/
I got that same impression.
-Suz
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