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Re: The LEGO Company and the North American AFOL
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:34:44 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
> In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote:
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> <snip> <snip> <snip> <snip> <snip> and <snip>
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> > ANyway, again, a bunch of paragraphs too long. I really need a good copy
> > editor.
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> Hi Dave,
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> just wanted to report back, that I enjoyed this very unemotional look on Lego
> and the fan-ship-being (at least you tried to keep emotions out).
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> So Lego wants to cut down costs. One could argue LUGs are too successful: Lego
> sees no further need to support this.
Actually, that's a good way of looking at it. LUGs are successful. All the
LUGs I know are doing their thing and (most of) they are having an awesome time
doing so!
So there's that.
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> And in fact, personally I am at a point where I will buy LEGO and play with the
> bricks even without a community around. Back to the roots. :-)
Same!
> But I still enjoy this old platform, that used to be known as the friendliest
> place on earth (and for me it still might be).
I still can't think of any better SINGLE point of contact for the community.
The widely fractured community with an almost infinite number of
boards/groups/pages are, in and of themselves, fantastic, but there's no ONE
place to go to get things out there to the lego community. LUGNET, in the day,
was the single best place for that, and I'll still use it for same.
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> Ben
Dave K
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| (...) Hi Dave, I agree on your thoughts.... Only some weeks ago I have been reminded, that becoming a LUGNET member ment paying a (small) lifetime membership fee (really had fogotten that fact completely). This has been definitely one reason why we (...) (12 years ago, 29-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) <snip> <snip> <snip> <snip> <snip> and <snip> (...) Hi Dave, just wanted to report back, that I enjoyed this very unemotional look on Lego and the fan-ship-being (at least you tried to keep emotions out). So Lego wants to cut down costs. One (...) (12 years ago, 27-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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