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Re: LEGO-Galidor Perspective In L.A. Times Article
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Thu, 14 Feb 2002 04:29:21 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Peter Root writes:
> you know whats sad and my worst fear, is later in the year when these
> products arent making LEGO any money, the bricks are going to be sold for
> more to pay for the losses.
I tell you what would be my worst fear, (apart from the entire company
coming to pieces...no pun intended) - that these darned Galidork sets (you
should trade mark that one, Tim!), along with Jack Stone, Software and all
the other non-brick-based c**p start to sell well enough by comparison (i.e.
more profitably) that Lego exercises a preference for making them to making
bricks. Perhaps to the degree that they no longer make bricks :-(
Much as I love Lego Direct, the increasing shift to S@H only for brick-based
products, manifested in the situation where Lego employees no longer
supervise stock and shelf displays at stores such as Toys R Us (a false
economy that is evident here in the UK at least) has a lot to answer for. Of
course, if you can't buy bricks off toy store shelves, it becomes highly
likely that they won't be selling from them either... TLC, what are you
thinking?
And exactly what else do you do with all of this Jack Stoner stuff when
you're tired of it?. Leave it on a shelf and play with something else
entirely. And what did you do when you got tired of your new System set?
Dismantled it and make something entirely different *from it*. The new lines
are fad toys (as was already said), like collecting action man, stickers or
top trumps - where's the creativity, imagination and choice in that?
Even though it probably means even less bricks on store shelves (in the
short-medium term at least), support Lego Direct!!
Anyway, I'm sure all of this's been said before by you guys, but hey!
just my 2 pence,
Chris.
> whispers, "Brad for President!"
> Lego is THE Construction Toy brand, not just another toy brand, which is what it's fast becoming
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| (...) When you're tired of the Jack Stone stuff, you pull it apart and build something else from it.... you probably combine some of your system stuff, because there aren't that many pieces in the smaller JS sets. The JS sets contain some good (...) (23 years ago, 14-Feb-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| (...) you know whats sad and my worst fear, is later in the year when these products arent making LEGO any money, the bricks are going to be sold for more to pay for the losses. i criticized LEGO before, and figured it was wrong, who am i to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Feb-02, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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