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Re: Comment Now at LEGO.com: New Grey and Brown
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lugnet.lego
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Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:31:26 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.lego, Dave Schuler wrote:
> > For various reasons I'm almost wholly untouched by changes to LEGO colors,
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> Somehow I'm not surprised...
Am I that transparent? 8^)
> The Galidor series was a great concept, with better excecution than I would have
> expected out of any other toy company. It fit perfectly with the non-violent
> focus of TLC, despite the fact that the Ooni got hit with a listing on the Dirty
> Dozen toy list (or whatever it's called).
I didn't know that--what criterion put it on the list?
> It was only missing one thing. A market. If the exact same TV show was
> done twenty years ago, it would have probably succeeded, but it just doesn't
> come anywhere close to the kind of stuff that's been popular for the last
> five years or so.
I can agree with that. The modular-figure concept meshes well with Micronauts,
which I recall to have been quite popular during their heyday.
> Without an audience for the show, the toy line was doomed
> from the start, no matter how well it was developed.
Yeah, the folks in Market Research really kind of fumbled on that one. And for
that reason, it doesn't seem strange to me that AFOLs have less-then-absolute
faith in TLG's vision regarding other new product directions (though I applaud
the signs that TLG"s color decision was apparently not writ in stone.) Change
may sometimes be good, but change-back is sometimes better!
Dave!
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| (...) Only slightly. Highly translucent, maybe? (...) Basically it seems to boil down to the fact that the Ooni was a monster action figure that was intended to turn a profit. Ooh, scary! Anyways, I was much more impassioned about it when I wrote my (...) (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Somehow I'm not surprised... (...) Some Train-heads still like ZNAP for bridge-building purposes, but I don't even remember hearing about it prior to the release of BIONICLE. By then it was pretty much dead, and that suggests that it wasn't (...) (21 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego)
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