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Re: Where did the lego's go?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:21:20 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jason Haskamp writes:
> On one of my many recent ventures to the local shops I have noticed
> something that seems to be happening almost universally. Lego's are
> disappearing.
I was expecting to get to the end of your long message and see "it was all
a dream", since much of it seems pretty fanciful to me.
Here in San Francisco every TRU and Target has *plenty* of shelf-feet of
Lego; several Targets even have an entire half-aisle still, here in
February, which is unusual: typically they shrink back to 10-12 shelf feet
for spring and summer. When the Orient and Basketball sets arrived, there
were dozens and dozens of the sets at TRU, including a nice big display up
front during Christmas.
MB has never cracked more than 6 or 8 shelf-feet at Target; they've done
well at TRU, but then they always have: there's ALWAYS been a market for
cheap clones, I don't see anything that's changed in that regard.
Kevin
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| On one of my many recent ventures to the local shops I have noticed something that seems to be happening almost universally. Lego's are disappearing. I don't mean that they are selling off of the shelves but that they are just not there. I stopped (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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