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Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 5 Mar 2001 21:50:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.general, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> > Forbes on March 2:
> > http://www.forbes.com/2001/03/02/0302faceslego.html
> > Forbes on March 1:
> > http://www.forbes.com/2001/03/01/0301facescan.html
> When the kids get tired of the novelty of Bionickkkles, they will look
> around for something substantive to play with. Maybe TLC could cut costs by
> rereleasing old set designs. I understand the retro toys are all the rage
> in the toy industry right now. Maybe we could get classic space, castle,
> and pirates back again. Everything from the packaging to the element counts
> to the booklet instructions has already been paid for labor-wise, all TLC
> would have to do is manufacture and sell the sets again!
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> The 10 year olds of today have never seen classic space -- to them it *IS* new!
Hmmmm how about 25th anniversary copys of "Classic"sets from that
corresponding year? Sets from 1977 for 2002 ,1978 for 2003 etc...
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| (...) That's absolutely silly. How do you intend to keep losing money year after year if you give the faithful, returning customer something of value that would generate sales. You can't do that. Bionicles: that's how you lose money. Sheesh, you're (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) the planet (I suppose that this assumes that none or destroyed, thrown away, etc). I further suppose that this is the fact upon which another claim is based -- the claim that market saturation is problem for TLC. You can't build much with 52 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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