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Re: Markets and juniorization
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:31:39 GMT
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Bradley Dale wrote:
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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?
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> > > 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.
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> 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?
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
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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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| (...) 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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