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(...) Cool, can't wait for more! (...) Excellent! Are you taking requests for other old sets? I would like to see the old Moon Landing set from the mid-70's! (...) A floating minifig head -- LOL -- awesome! (...) Does this mean that LEGO now (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | What makes a cool kid cool? (was: Re: A new area of LEGO.com: the Build section)
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(...) Does the "Cool Kids" section profile only the amazing kids or does it also profile the average or below-average kid? What makes one kid more amazing or cool than another? I thought LEGO was about using your imagination and creativity and not (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) yes, for starters, I would certainly like to buy: macaroni (URL) and (URL) ridge and valley bricks (URL) [would these be considered bulk bricks?] (URL) of painful to search set ref 2xx sheree (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GCz5o4.B4H@lugnet.com... (...) background?) (...) customers (...) The point is though, that Lego does none of those tricks. It is a traditional, conservative company that tries to (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Why all the dumping? Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
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(...) Why is that that whenever someone isn't actively attacking LEGO and deriding everything they do, they get accused of being some kind of cheerleading, banner-waving drone? It really gets under my skin sometimes. Someone out there bitches about (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Whoops. My mistake. I thought that since your original remark about some things being worth waiting for followed a quote about Jimmy Parks' posting that you were providing validation to his (non)announcement. Guess we'll all just have to (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:GCz59A.A7o@lugnet.com... . (...) Except my point was that for a long time in Lego early history that did just that. Sold prime parts individually. Look at late 50's early 60's. I think relative (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Here's one way... give the stuff away for free. Instant money loser, very happy customers. (did I hear an internet bubble popping in the background?) Or were you asking a serious question? There are thousands of ways to satisfy customers and (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I don't know anything about a "July Surprise". KL (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I can't speak for the UK experience, but here in the US the effects have been incredibly cool. Absolutely amazing actually. Somewhere in my basement I have an unopened case of 5542's that I was keeping just for the clear train glass. Now I can (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Does this mean that you know the details of "The July Surprise"? Or is whether or not you possess that secret also a secret? You can tell us - we won't spread it around. Promise! Greg (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:GCz419.7AF@lugnet.com... (...) Yes. And producing duff products is another. regards lawrence (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:GCyzMv.InD@lugnet.com... (...) What? You mean like I wouldnt have dreamt of e-commerce? Or they they would sell bulk bricks, which I could have done 40 years ago? Or that they might sell trains, (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Bad management, poor processes, resistance to change, non-understanding of market forces, sheer bad luck... there's lots and lots of reasons for a company to be losing money even while keeping customers happy. Heck, I was pretty darn happy (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GCz3rD.6L8@lugnet.com... (...) TLC (...) more (...) the way things are going with lego products, soon the rarity will be a brick with studs on it. :-) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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"Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:GCz2Du.2xw@lugnet.com... (...) How can a company that is losing money be satisfying its customers? regards lawrence (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I thought you said you read the Cluetrain Manifesto? I had a chance to hear one of the authors and one point he made in his talk is that companies can, and should, choose which customers to satisfy and which to write off as not being a good (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I doubt LD is responsible for the current rumors. They probably haven't told anyone outside of LEGO what they are planning. They most certainly told everyone else inside LEGO because that is required for production (of anything) to occur. It (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) Noted! I didn't mean to address that part specifically to you, but I was on a roll. Dave! (one may infer from the tone of my invective that I have likewise signed no NDA nor had private communication with TLC or any of its tentacles.) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) I think that's a bit of an absolutist portrayal, don't you? The point is that people have been trying to explain *why* it is the way it is, not trying to defend it or say it's necessarily the right way of doing something, given infinite time (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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