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Re: Petition against permanent color changes
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:10:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dave Lovelace wrote:
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One more thing. It’s a well-known fact, given by Lego reps themselves at LUG
meetings, etc. (or so I have read in the transcriptions), that we AFOLs make
up something like 1% of their market. So let it be known that even if we all
hated it and stopped buying new product, it’s my admittedly pessimistic
opinion that our 1% would PALE compared to a probable INCREASE of sales that
introducing “newer, brighter colors,” along with a big, shiny marketing
campaign, would do.
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A “big, shiny marketing campaign” isn’t going to happen here. LEGO will just
start putting the new colors into sets, and hope people don’t notice that the
parts don’t match their existing collection of pieces.
Here on LUGNET where some of the AFOLs hang out, it’s big news - we notice when
LEGO changes something like this, because we’re passionate about our favorite
toy. The average Mom or Dad buying a kit for the average kid probably never
notices something like this.
And yea, we recognize that when LEGO brings out a new color we buy it. Heck, I
bought 20 of the original “Trick or Treat” bucket the first few days they were
on the shelf, just for the orange bricks. I bought several hundred dollars
worth of Sand Red bulk bricks when they first showed up in the Shop @ Home
catalog. When McDonalds had a ‘Happy Meal’ set with the dark pink pieces I got
40 of them. I just bought fifty copies of the #4400 tub, with all the
different colors of bricks. We know that new colors are ‘a good thing’. We’re
upset that LEGO is taking away a classic color that has been a staple of
collections for many years!
“Bright & Sharp” Jake says. Maybe LEGO should just mold nothing but fluorescent
colors, and forget anything that looks even remotely like the colors in the real
world.
And yea, put me down as being against this change. I’ve got around 300,000
bricks at home, I’ve been playing with LEGO toys for over 35 years...
JohnG, GMLTC
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 | | Re: Petition against permanent color changes
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| In lugnet.general, Ondrew Hartigan wrote: (snip) (...) (snip) Ya know, anyone with $4000 worth of the now-so-called "muddy" grey parts oughtta be able to build any sized sidewalk they wanted to. And Jake's mentioned a prospect of parts packs in the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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