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    Profitable year for LEGO? —Kevin McMillin
   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 (22 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.general) ! 
   
        Re: Profitable year for LEGO? —Allan Bedford
     (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: Profitable year for LEGO? —James Stacey
     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 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Profitable year for LEGO? —Lawrence Wilkes
    "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 (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)  
 

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