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Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 1 Dec 2004 23:41:25 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Mark Chan wrote:
2) Given 1 and 1a above, we have to find a way to change Lego's perception so
that our AFOL voice is valued, or else go for the "heart-strings approach"
(which also has it's own set of problems - many of which you and someone else
have brought up - so I'm abandoning that one)

Yeah.  If you try the AFOL approach, then you're into spending a lot of
effort convincing people (who may already be convinced) that AFOLs matter,
beforrrre you ever get to the colour issue.  It's like tackling 2 challenges
at once, and the first one could swamp out your second one.

The parent/kid approach works directly (and AFOLs can be implied within the
parent category, even if all aren't parents).  I think the trick is to
make the approach more specific rather than karma'ed.  :]  Certainly customer
happiness / goodwill may be a good thing to touch upon, it just needs to be
less central in the letter, like a background theme.  I think.  ;]

KDJ

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  Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
 
(...) Actually, I 100% agree with you there (and did before I posted) - and the LEGO magazines I've seen for 10+ yrs proves your point. I agree that brick size and shape are MUCH more important (and hinted at that in the letter, so it didn't appear (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)

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