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Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
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Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:26:18 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Timothy Wade wrote:
   In lugnet.lego, Patrick S. O’Donnell wrote:
   In lugnet.lego, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
   In lugnet.lego, Arne Lykke Nielsen wrote:

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   Follow-up: In the Danish TV News, in two interviews, the new CEO said, that most of the production would probably be moved to China (where Click-its and many parts are already made)

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   Arne, Copenhagen

well, i weathered the color change, & lego ultra-juniorization/B.U.R.P etc. garbage, but this might break it for me. Lego, you darn well better absolutely NOT use slave labor & conditions!!!! (although that’s probably what they’re counting on to cut costs by going to china. I don’t wanna hear about poor abused children being forced into making one of the best toys invented FOR children. way to go Lego, you really tick me off.

Jeff

Yes all that and now the possibity that MegaBlocks and Lego being made in the same manufacturing plant. They’ll just take the better ones and put them in the “Lego” bin with the poorer ones going to the other knock offs.

-Patrick

I’m just shocked...I can’t even begin to say what this means to me....other than I guess the market for old Lego collections will just continue to go through the roof. sigh

When will it ever end?

As sad (wrong depending on how ones sees it) as it may sound that TLC is moving production to China it *IS* the way of this century. Expect to see a lot of this occuring for the rest of our lifetime! 1st world countries *CAN NOT* compete against the wages of those countries. That is off coruse the way of capitalism. I’m not saying it is wrong, that is just the way it is.


Case in point, today on Nationa Public Radio they had a segment of the DRUG ROUTES. Basically colombia drug lords are now using the central american corridor to bring drugs up to the USA. Nobody stops them (governments, local police, the people) becuase if a fisherman who earns $10 per week “help” transport some drugs from one port to the next he gets a $1,000.00 “reward”. With that amount of money his family is set for the year!

It is disparelty of wealth that allowed “cheap labor” to grown in certain areas of the world. So don’t blame TLC for going where everyone else is going. If they don’t they won’t be competitive and if they can not be competeive then say good bye to TLC!

You and I and everyone else on this board don’t have the power to change the way stuff is so don’t bother. Just be happy that TLC is doing things (which you amy not agree on) to keep itself alive and making the brick.

You know kids todays are not into the brick as we were. Yes it has it’s following but the brick in the US can’t really compete against the SONY Playstations... =)

-AHui

A&M LWorks





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(...) Actually, I don't think it will save them much at all. Sea transport will now be across the atlantic, they have built the factories in Hungary, have the ones in Bulland (sp), ect. Cost to run the actual factories is relatively low in terms of (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)  

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(...) I'm just shocked...I can't even begin to say what this means to me....other than I guess the market for old Lego collections will just continue to go through the roof. <sigh> When will it ever end? (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)  

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