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(...) Wow, the new CEO is only (URL) years old> - he was 8 or 9 when Space came out! Good luck to Mr. Knudstorp! Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) He's AFOL age. (average age being 30 ish, not based on any real numbers, just an observation) and probably remembers classic space as a kid. Good news!!!! (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, he's a sharp cat. As I understand, Kjeld is stepping down as planned (he came back into the daily operations fold to help get things back on track). Now that the Action Plan is in place and seems to be working, he's turning over daily (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I hope you're right, but the two top guys in TLC now have a combined 5 years experience with the company and it's all on the financial side. Spinning off the parks, or selling them outright, sounds ominous. It suggests a level of distress (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) But does he LIKE the product, or is this just a job for him? Ditto the CFO... I have opined in the past that I wonder how many Danes view working at LEGO as just another job rather than as a passion.... Also, I have to say I was puzzled by (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Absolutely agree. (...) I'm not sure how much of the problem is a 'TLC supply chain issue' tho. Perhaps it is in EU where the supplier is more closely coupled with the retail outlets. On this side of the pond I have seen much LEGO product that (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Interesting that you mention this, I was concidering an Ambasador Pass for myself this year, but now I'm not so sure it's worth it. I remember when Marine World was sold to Six Flags. It lost most it's charm and became a Magic Mtn clone. Mat (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) IMHO selling the LL parks to an outside company is just beyond stupid. I mean HELLO - this is LEGOland. This is not some generic theme park where it does not really matter who is running it - I don't want to see LLCA run by some random (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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(...) I have some strong negative feelings about Legoland CA. I drove my kids (15 hours) specifically to visit Legoland (CA) and we were all looking forward to the experience. I have visited numerous parks in my 42 years and I must say Legoland was (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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Much snippage. And I mostly agree with Ray... (...) Supply chains stretch in both directions from a firm, both upstream and down. TLC's upstream supply chain presumably delivers stuff like raw pellets (in various colors), printed boxes and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Jake, Looking at the organizational chart, wouldn't "stepping up" be a more appropriate term, as he is leaving the CEO position but remaining Deputy Chairman? -Brian (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Maybe they'll sell it to Disney. They would fix it. (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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(...) Um, have you seen some of the Disney theme parks as of late? This would be a poor idea. Outsourcing parks like Legoland isn’t a bad idea, if you pick the right company to run them. Six Flags = Bad. However, all of Disney’s Tokyo parks are (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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(...) I think they'd have better spent the money on LEGO stores throughought the US. I think stores where you can "pick a brick" would do much to increase sales. More widespread "pick a brick" sales could be part of an overall strategy to make TLC (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I don't know. It would nice to have one closer to Detroit, but there's also the overhead of operating a bunch of physical stores. What are people's impressions as to the success of these new stores? I do think that PAB is a nice low investment (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I've spent a lot of time at Pick-A-Bricks (LLCA, DDT Anaheim, Glendale Galleria) and my observations suggest they are great for us, but not the average customer. My eperiences is that the average visitor says "wow" when they see all the items, (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Although that may be your observations, in the time that I have been with LEGO Brand Retail, PaB cups have been top sellers in many stores nearly every week. I know that at Tyson's Corner, there are some bins that we are always refilling. (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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