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(...) Licensing or not, they are very different products. Playmobil is not a building toy. Lego has been wishing to bypass the fact that it is a building toy! Quick-build and action playset and all that. Playmobil has even tried to become a building (...) (21 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) neat sets but it's not clear that was the only way to get those. The question is, is LEGO different enough from Playmobil that the same strategy wouldn't work for LEGO? I'm not sure but am tending to think not that different. (21 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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Are they saying precicely what we'd like LEGO to be saying ?? (URL) Stacey ------ www.minifig.co.uk Lugnet Member #925 I'm a citizen of Legoland travellin' Incommunicado (21 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Snipped a lot of good info. Most of which I agree with. However I do NOT agree that there is no such thing as a loss leader. Case in point. I went to Best Buy on Black Friday. They were selling DVD players for 19 dollars after rebate. Many (...) (21 years ago, 25-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) snip (...) Another factor involving big-box retailers is shelf-space spiffs (from the manf to the retailer). I'm pretty sure that WM charges for prime location end-caps. The manf's prolly pay WM off in extra product rather than real dollars. (...) (21 years ago, 24-Dec-03, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.mediawatch)
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