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Re: End of Year Thoughts
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 4 Dec 2001 04:06:24 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
> The volume of new and odd pieces in recent years seems to counter the
> argument that they are trying to keep costs down. If this were the case,
> why are we seeing lines like Jack Stone, Rock Raiders, Bionicle etc. that
> use more new pieces than ever before?
Because they can patent new pieces?
This is not a whole theory: it doesn't mean they're all basically useful
inventions, just that it keeps Lego, uh, different.
I guess they get a budget for theme development. Some gets spent on new
parts, some new part ideas get cancelled, the theme gets the "venture
capital exit test (we can save 1 million if we cancel it now instead of next
year)" and then it goes to market to earn its keep, and Fate cuts its cord
in exactly two years. If Wal-Mart asks for one, a new set is allowed to
escape the barn in year two.
I feel like I have just stocked my bomb shelter. I have opened all my brick
tubs and buckets and sorted them into bags with the year stamped on them.
Little survival rations to the future.
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| (...) You're going to have to help me with this one. How does this make economic sense? Wouldn't it be better to focus on the pieces you have, the ones that are already useful and for which molds have already been created? I mean, Megablocks has a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Definitely not nostalgia. I still have all my original LEGO sets (including boxes and all instructions) going back to the mid-1970's. I'm not looking at pics on the web, or just running old memories over and again in my head. I can sit and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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