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Subject: 
Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:51:17 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.nl, Jeff Stembel writes:
Sell well to *whom*?  Us?  Maybe, but even then, I doubt much more than half
the readers of Lugnet would be very interested, since it isn't very useful to
people who build Technic or Space, for example.  Then you need to factor out
those who don't want to use them (for whatever reason) or can't afford them.
And since its been said time and time again, we are *not* a very large
percentage of Lego's profits, you have to consider if kids will want them.  I
know it took me a number of years after I got them (back around 1985 or so) to
realize how useful they were, and that was with Idea Books that actually used
them.  I just don't think kids today will find them very interesting or useful.

I don't have to think of any of those things -- it's not my job!  And even
if I did want to consider it, it's all very vague, lacking in any hard data,
and full of presumptions besides.  Keep it simple.  You either do or do not
want the element in question.

All of these other considerations belong inside the walls of Lego Direct HQ
where they can discuss the matter intelligently with all of the necessary
facts before them.

::yawn::

-- Hop-Frog



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(...) So you think it is okay to demand the moon and the stars from TLC without even considering what they would have to go through to give it to you? I'm sorry, but that is highly faulty logic. (...) True, we don't have all the facts. However, we (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
 
(...) Sell well to *whom*? Us? Maybe, but even then, I doubt much more than half the readers of Lugnet would be very interested, since it isn't very useful to people who build Technic or Space, for example. Then you need to factor out those who (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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