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Re: LEGO Company Welcomes Adult LEGO Enthusiasts
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lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:58:24 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Steve Martin writes:
In lugnet.announce, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
There's a new TLC press release at:

  http://www.lego.com/info/press.asp

here's the good stuff:

  http://www.lego.com/press/

-Suz

Did any else notice the statistics in the "Dot-com crowd loves Lego"
article?  http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=11947

The article quoted Shannon Hartnett from TLC - "She said U.S. sales to this
group are up close to 8% from 1998, and nearly one in 10 Lego buyers is now
a grownup, or what aficionados call AFOLs: Adult Friends of Lego."

So I guess we made up some percentage greater that 10% of the Lego sales in
1998 (since AFOLs seem to spend more money per capita on Lego than a parent
for a child).  If that is true, we have considerably more buying power that
I thought.  Does anybody else have any more recent (or more accurate)
statistics?

I am really surprised by this too - especially since a lot of AFOLs, more or
less, do not buy all that much new Lego. Even sales at 10% would surprises me.

Come on Brad? You must know! Tell us your secrets (the Lego ones).



BTW, I thought AFOL was "Adult Fan Of Lego"?

Me too.

Scott A


Regards,
Steve Martin
martinsa@mail.com



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(...) Did any else notice the statistics in the "Dot-com crowd loves Lego" article? (URL) article quoted Shannon Hartnett from TLC - "She said U.S. sales to this group are up close to 8% from 1998, and nearly one in 10 Lego buyers is now a grownup, (...) (24 years ago, 6-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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