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Re: Markets and juniorization
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:06:57 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Neal writes:
In lugnet.general, Bradley Dale writes:
In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
Lego keeps saying that junorization is what todays video-game kids want
but is it really true?

My big question: Why does LEGO need today's kids?  What if LEGO focused on
being such a good toy for ages 12+ that every teen and adult wanted to build
with it?  Not just adults that are currently AFOLS, but everyone!  I think • that
would be really cool.  Is it possible?

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.

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?



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  Re: Markets and juniorization
 
(...) You are kidding, right? Maybe in some AFOL fantasy dreamworld place, but not here in good ol' reality. -John (22 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Markets and juniorization
 
(...) 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 (22 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Markets and juniorization
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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