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Subject: 
Re: WHY SO LONG ON BULK BRICKS???? LEGO PLEASE READ!
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Date: 
Sun, 9 Dec 2001 12:21:52 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
  That said, I think the original concern was more one of "huh?"
  regarding the *choice* of bulk colors...The major confusion is
  as to why *that* color was chosen...Just for my own
  curiosity if nothing else I'd love to know how the decision was
  made to make the raspberry-sherbet color and not sand-blue or
  sand-green.  (OK, OK, so the Statue of Liberty has lots of sand
  green, I admit...)

But it's also completely understandable if they don't want to say something
like "Um well, the sets that were slated to have lots of sand red weren't doing
well on the market and the next ones coming down the pike did poorly in market
analysis so we're sitting with a bunch of this extra brick."  I don't have any
idea if that's how they make the decisions, but it's possible.

It _would_ be neat to know how their systems work, but protecting the
information might also be important for competition reasons.

Chris



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(...) I agree wholeheartedly with the amount of steer this smallish and extremely young (<3 years) unit of TLC has been able to exert, by using its own position within the company and by using the *free* market information we provide. I have a (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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