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Subject:	22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:20:45 GMT
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From the Toy Fair website: "In the aftermath of 9/11, many families chose to stay close to home during the latter part of the year and this trend is reflected in a 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys. The most dominant new arrival in 2001 was LEGO's Bionicle line, which took six of the top 20 spots in this category. However, claiming the number one position in the Building sets category was the very innovative Screaming Serpent Coaster by K'NEX." See http://www.toy-tma.com/AITF/release-soi02.html

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		Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys?
(...) How was this innovative? It's their second coaster! The only innovative thing I saw about it was that the MSRP was a lot less (and it had differently abled (they had no feet) passengers on a coaster train instead of a 4 wheeled cart. (I (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

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I'm off to Toy Fair in a couple of days - if anyone has anything in particular that they'd like to see a bit more of, just let me know. Star Wars is our backbone but I do my best to cover the entire showroom. Tim (URL) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)

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