 | | Interesting article in new Adventurers magazine
|
|
Just for a change, there's something interesting in it. An article about desiging the Arctic sets. Apparently work started in 1987, and again in 1996 - and there's pictures of models (that never surfaced) from both previous attemps. Also, very cool, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
|
| |
| | Re: re-What is happening to LEGO in UK +others
|
|
(...) I agree. Have been to toy shops in Germany, Austria and Holland in the last 12 months and they seem to have healthy stocks of lego. Especially train which has disappeared in UK. I dont think my personal preferences for lego are much to go by, (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
|
| |
| | Re: re-What is happening to LEGO in UK +others
|
|
Maybe all the Lego sold out over Christmas and the Mega-Bloks abd K'nex were left on the shelf :-). Rob the Optimist. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
|
| |
| | Re: re-What is happening to LEGO in UK +others
|
|
(...) In my area (thames valley) things arent quite so bad. Entertainer, Camberley or Reading - did decline but seems to have got more shelf space back at xmas, but mainly to the large amounts of discontinued sets. They have all the 2000 stuff, but (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
|
| |
| | re-What is happening to LEGO in UK +others
|
|
LEGO like other toys has been in decline in the UK for some years. I remember just a few years ago Woolworths having several aisles of LEGO, now there is only one shelf. I didn't think K'nex would last but is has and is more readily available. There (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
|
