 | | Profitable year for LEGO? —Kevin McMillin
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| | | Hi all, The Financial Times has a short article saying that Harry Potter and Bob the Builder helped boost LEGO into a profitable 2001. The full article can be found at: (URL) seems to be good news! Kevin (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general) !
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| | | | | Re: Profitable year for LEGO? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | (...) I found this line to be interesting: "Lego's traditional products such as building blocks "contributed handsomely" to the year's result..." I wonder where they sold all these 'building blocks'? Not in my neighbourhood. Sigh. Well there's (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Profitable year for LEGO? —James Stacey
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| | | | | | I assume they mean Building blocks as opposed to clothes, watches ,bionicle (only joking on the last one :) ). Although we may argue the lack of traditional blocks in modern lines - town jr, Harry Potter or Alpha Team - , they are still essentially (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Profitable year for LEGO? —Lawrence Wilkes
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| | | | "Kevin McMillin" <mcmillins@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:GtAnqB.8uz@lugnet.com... (...) Bob the (...) (URL) (...) I see it as bad news for old-timers like me. Their success seems to have come at the expense of the Lego values that I hold (...) (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
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