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Subject: 
Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
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lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:27:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
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!

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.

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.

True, we don't have all the facts.  However, we can do research and make
educated guesses as to some of the costs involved, and even with basic numbers,
it becomes obvious as to the feasibility.  I see little point in annoying Lego
Direct with broken-record-like demands that have little to know chance of ever
seeing the light of day.  All it does is turn them off to us.

And yes, I would like to have 1x1 windows.  As I said earlier, I would also
like to go to Saturn.  Neither are likely to happen anytime in the near future,
if ever, so why bother asking?

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.

Yes, the final decision is up to TLC.  I don't see why we can't do some
preliminary work on our own first to decide whether it is even worth it to
*ask*, though.

Jeff



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
 
(...) True....it may not be logical thinking. But even still, as a consumer he is very entitled to voice his opinion, regardless of the fact of how TLC views his buying from him or not. I don't want to say I'm getting tired of the getting old (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)
  Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
 
(...) Isn't the phrase "demand the moon and the stars" intended to convey the idea of impossibility? Those 1x1x1 windows are something TLC actually use to manufacture -- how impossible is the idea that they might go back into production with these (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Set #10021 has been spotted at Shop at Home!
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 18-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.general)

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