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Re: Not just another Mega Bloks vs. Lego article
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:29:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Scott E. Sanburn wrote:
> Thomas & All,
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> Thanks for the link, interesting read. put my response to just general.
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> Here is what caught my eye in this article, Thomas pointed out some good ones
> already.
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> > Results were also hurt by soft sales of construction toys that let kids
> > build scenes and playsets based on movies such as the Harry Potter series.
> > Lego admits that it “mismanaged” the toy line and that interest in such toys
> > waned, contributing to millions of dollars of unsold licensed goods.
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> This is a fascinating bit of text. I was under the impression that most of the
> licensed goods was a good seller, such as SW and HP. I wonder if it is in
> reference to Galidor. I am not sure what else could be a bad seller, Bob the
> Builder?
I inferred that excerpt to suggest that licensed (and juniorized, incidentally)
playset/diorama-style sets were less successful than the more interactive
vehicles. I suppose we could both be correct.
> Another interesting tidbit:
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> > Unlike Lego, which uses its own mix of resins, Mega Bloks uses commodity-
> > grade resins to make its colorful bricks. Lego believes its proprietary mix > produces a higher-quality plastic.
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> Heh, I did not know that LEGO has their own mix of plastic. And it is
> interesting that MB uses commodity grade plastics.
That's news to me, too. I figured that both companies got their materials from
independent vendors, and that MEGABLOKS simply used a different grade of
styrene.
Very interesting.
Dave!
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