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Subject:	Re: LEGO wobbles as Star Wars and Harry Potter sales tumble
Newsgroups:	lugnet.mediawatch
Date:	Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:33:42 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Thomas Garrison wrote: > What I found interesting was this paragraph: > > "The company has said that children also grow up faster than they used to, > meaning that Lego bricks are discarded more quickly." > > So is this the reason that most system sets have an age range of 6--10 now, vs. > 8--12 in the 80s, or is changing the age ranges the reason why "Lego bricks are > discarded more quickly", So what is behind the ages on the Designer sets? The high number is 99. Does this mean that certain LEGO product lines are good for life, but others have a limited appeal? :) > and this is an attempt to pretend the causes are beyond > TLC's control? Yes. Allan B.

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		Re: LEGO wobbles as Star Wars and Harry Potter sales tumble
(...) Either that or it's a sop to us. :-) ++Lar (thought about "flaming" Allan about the whole concept/product thing but realised I totally agree with him... kids (the major market, so they keep telling us) buy products, not concepts. Only (...) (21 years ago, 31-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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		Re: LEGO wobbles as Star Wars and Harry Potter sales tumble
In lugnet.mediawatch, Allan Bedford wrote: (URL) A couple things in the first article really worried me: (...) This is disturbing, but I had two thoughts about this: first, most of the time when a company issues a statement, it's a public company (...) (21 years ago, 31-Dec-03, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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