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Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:54:47 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > it turns out, I think that if TLC did almost everything that AFOLs wanted,
> > business would be better. That's my take on it in a "nutshell" edition for
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> How about "... did almost anything ... " ?
Now, to be fair, I do think that TLC *are* doing some things that are of great
advantage to AFOLs.
First, there's the Bulk Brick offerings. Yes, I know, many of these same
bricks were available in slightly different assortments ("Blue Bricks", "Red
Plates", etc) before. Personally, I find their current grouping (a number of
exactly the same brick) infinitely more palatable. Also, they *are* trying to
give AFOLs the bricks we want- note the whole "train windows"
debacle/correction.
Second, I think that the offerings like the Statue of Liberty and the Dragon
statue are definite overtures to AFOLs. Kids are not going to want those sets.
I also imagine that the eventual "design-your-set-online" will have higher
functions that AFOLs and older modellers will get more out of than kids. That
remains to be seen, of course.
eric
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| (...) sets. (...) You are absolutely correct. I would be interested in knowing how successful those offerings are. As good as those things are, and they do make it much easier for use to build impressive train show displays, they don't affect their (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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