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Subject:	Re: Are we? or are some of us builders? (was: Misnomer: we are all Lego collectors!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2001 03:09:51 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Howse writes: [snippety snip snip] > However, LEGO(company) knows where the money is and it's not with the > builders. And since they're a company who wants to collect money, they need > to go where it is, generating hype, imposing value and rerelasing sets which > go for overinflated E-bay prices. I agree with most of this essay, so haven't quoted it. However, I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) that the vast majority of LEGO company's income is derived from the "younger" market, which I think fall much more generally into the definition of "builder" [1]. So I think the most money is probably with the "builders" [2], which is why TLC doesn't generally cater (directly) for "collectors". The LEGENDS line seems to me to be a relatively low-cost [3] diversification by TLC to address this imbalance slightly. ROSCO [1] This doesnt touch on "juniorisation", which tends to push the definition more towards "player" than "builder". [2] or more correctly with the builders' parents / guardians, who most such builders have wrapped around their little finger 8?) [3] No model design required - probably not much in the way of tooling up either.

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		Re: Are we? or are some of us builders? (was: Misnomer: we are all Lego collectors!)
(...) Thank you. When I wrote it I didn't realise there was more to the thread than the original message, some of the replies are informative. (...) I'm probably making artificial distinctions here but bear with me. The divide between builder and (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)

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		Are we? or are some of us builders? (was: Misnomer: we are all Lego collectors!)
(...) Absract. There are different words we apply to different approaches to LEGO(products). Builders and collectors. Builders might feel that collectors have an unproductive/unhelpful view of LEGO(products). Builders don't care about scalpers and (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)

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