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Subject: 
Re: Two things I inferred from Brad's talk at Brickfest
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lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:09:43 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Kevin Loch writes:
In lugnet.events.brickfest, Greg Kramer writes:
What came across loud and clear is that sales to us are a very small
minority.  We alone are not enough to make or brake the projections for a
specific set.  We alone are not worth justifying creation of a new set,

Except when you realize that the kind of things we want sell much
better than the things their marketing dept. want's to sell.  >
KL

That's why I used the phrase "we alone".  If others want it -- not just us
-- I think they'll do it [make the set, bulk pack, whatever].

But as for the comment that what we want sells better than the other stuff,
I didn't hear that at all in Brad's talk.  In fact, I heard almost the
opposite, with Juniorization as the example.  Those are sets we hate, but
Brad indicated they are doing fine.

-Greg



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  Re: Two things I inferred from Brad's talk at Brickfest
 
(...) Remember the comment about the Guarded Inn? Orders from "kids" vastly outnumbered orders from "adults" once the S@H catalog hit the streets. WRT juniorization, the prevailing argument is that it targets the 4-7 age range with easy to build, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: Two things I inferred from Brad's talk at Brickfest
 
(...) Except when you realize that the kind of things we want sell much better than the things their marketing dept. want's to sell. They shouldn't make sets the way we want them because we want to buy them, but because that's what most parents and (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.lego.direct)

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