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Subject:	Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.dear-lego
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2001 01:27:17 GMT
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In article <3B96AF8A.B9BF6B50@enviroweb.org>, Christopher Tracey <ctracey@enviroweb.org> wrote: > This bothers me > because, as some of you might know Chuck Taylor All-Star shoes are no > longer being made and Converse has decided to market the All-Star brand > on t-shirts and other products and that's it. OT, but to correct misinformation... Chuck Taylor All-Star shoes are still being made and distributed. They may have been out of production for a while, but they are currently in production. And a company representative has publicly gone on record as saying something to the effect that they would be stupid to stop making this shoe that's still very popular. <http://www.converse.com/product/product.asp?CatID=4&PFGID=197> -- Mark D. McKean - The Quantum Panda - qpanda@quantumpanda.com

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		Re: Bummer of the Week: LEGO Made in China
(...) This news is pretty shocking (maybe I've been sleeping and never noticed). <snipped Greg's observations> (...) Depends how you define quality. (...) Difficult to say. I've always had this idea of LEGO of being some sort of magical company that (...) (23 years ago, 5-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.duplo, lugnet.dear-lego)

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