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Re: My thoughts on the New Grays
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lugnet.loc.au
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Date:
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Tue, 2 Mar 2004 02:50:58 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin wrote:
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Your rant is incomplete. Please select either Prophecy of Doom or Threat
to properly conclude your rant:
Prophecy of Doom
This means the end of Lego as we know it. One day it will just be an example
of how not to run a businees.
Threat
I don’t know what to do, but I’ll certainly be buying less of the product in
future.
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What about Expression of Gratitude?
For so long I’ve been wrestling with an irresistible compulsion to buy new Lego
products. Each year I’d say to myself, “I’ve got enough Lego now”, but then
they’d bring out a line of sets with a whole new bunch of cool parts in gray, or
an attractive number of existing gray parts. I’d tell myself not to, but
eventually the urge would become too strong and I’d buy the sets.
I didn’t realise it at the time, but I needed a reason to stop buying. Then Lego
changed the grays. Suddenly, new Lego products no longer supplied me with the
colours of which I already owned so many, many bricks. It was the perfect
reason. Suddenly, I could look at the new sets on the shelves and say to myself,
“Nope - wrong colours”.
Suddenly I had a bunch of money which was previously spent on Lego, that could
facilitate many other legitimately worthwhile things.
Expression of Gratitude
Thank you, Lego!
Cheers,
P.S. This is mostly true for me, by the way.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Mmmmm. I think we could probably count this variant Expression of Gratitude as a special case of Threat, along with the other variant of Expression of Gratitude - 'Well THANK you VERY much, you propeller headed, novelty hunting, ungrateful, (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
| | | Re: My thoughts on the New Grays
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| (...) EXPRESSION OF GRATTITUDE!!!...!!! Absolutely taken the keys from my Keyboard. I couldnt agree more. For the past year I have reluctantly fell into the trap of impulse buying which has kind of ruled my life up until now. I just cant wait for (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
| | | Re: My thoughts on the New Grays
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| (...) This is my first post to .loc.au so, um... G'day? As angry as I am about the color change, I can also express a little gratitude. In the short term, my spending has skyrocketed, as I snap up discounted 2002-3 sets (Thanks Dollar General!). But (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| In lugnet.loc.au, Travis Matheson wrote: -snip- (...) Your rant is incomplete. Please select either Prophecy of Doom or Threat to properly conclude your rant: Prophecy of Doom This means the end of Lego as we know it. One day it will just be an (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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