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(...) Not for a nanosecond. Because there are literary 1,000,000s of them (little people) and only 1,000s of us (AFOLs). You do the math. (...) TLC is a business. They just want a *market*. They aren't juniorizing just to be daft-- it is what the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) that (...) But what if tens of millions of big people wanted to build with LEGO, because TLC was focused on selling it to adults instead of kids? (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You are kidding, right? Maybe in some AFOL fantasy dreamworld place, but not here in good ol' reality. -John (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If you look at all modeling hobbies in total, which is probably a good approximation of the best total market for any one modeling hobby, I think you would find that that total is smaller than TLC's market. Frank (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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Yeah, but what if a certain Brick company had sets that made adults think "Wow, if I were a kid, I'd want that." They would be so cool, thousands of adults would start collecting them. When Playboy reviews the Sopwith Camel next to the flat-screen (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Again, this line of thinking is very much a dream (See my post elsewhere in this thread). However, I might point out that the Lego setups were a HUGE draw at events like the Greenburg Train show where NELUG setup a table or two amongst (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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