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In lugnet.lego, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, Ken Nagel wrote:
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In lugnet.lego, John M. Rudy wrote:
MAJOR SNIPAGE
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This community really needs to stop hating itself, or I fear it will self
destruct pretty soon.
-John Rudy
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The problem doesn’t lie within the community it lies within the company.
Proof of this is that they are dumbfounded as to why with all of their
efforts they are still loosing money.
I missed The whole Marsk debate but let’s face it anouncing to the world
that you are producing something as a limited edition and then saying you
changed your mind for whatever reason is by definition dishonest.
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I promised myself I wouldn’t continue fanning the flames here, but I couldn’t
resist one more...
The gist of the complaints against TLC I’m hearing is they’ve made a business
decision that “changed” from an earlier “promise” (neither of which I think
is true, but there you are). Although the viewpoints are different, the one
thing that’s fairly common is that some people are upset LEGO has changed
something.
But if LEGO never changed anything, we’d all still be buying this.
Or we’d still be using tubeless CA bricks. Or we’d have six colors.
I’m sure the LEGO-bashers will have a field day with this. Have at.
<snip>
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Lego refuses to listen to anyone wether AFOL or casulal consumer. Until they
figure out that they don’t know everything things will get worse.
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ROFL. Absolutely not true, from my own experience. LEGO has solicited
opinions in various areas and actually followed the suggestions when they
made sense. And there you have Lesson #1 on Why Sweeping Statements Can Come
Back To Bite You On The Butt.
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It could come sooner than later. Gi Joe was once king, yet as all action
figures fade away at some point so did Joe. Bionical is no diffrent.
Bionicle is propping up much of Lego. Joe has made somewhat of a come back.
The question is then will Lego still be around when the Bionicle kids start
feeling nostalgic?
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Even though the Bionicle team has 21 years worth of storyline mapped out
(we’re currently in the second of seven 3-year cycles), it’s clearly a fad,
and I’d be very surprised if Bionicle lasted that long. Yes, it’s definitely
carrying the product lines that don’t sell as much, but that’ll change, I’m
sure. The question is, will anything else emerge to replace Bionicle’s sales
at that time, or will cheap and inferior Chinese-produced competition, bad
management decisions, and/or continuing sales slumps (possibly caused in part
by disaffected AFOLs) torpedo the company?
I’d like to think LEGO will pull through, and I’ll do what I can to help
that. Like not trashing the company every single chance I get.
Kelly
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I’m pretty sure the duck wasn’t marketed as a “limited edition of 10,000”. It
really matters not what their excuss is if they changed their mind they could
have changed the model. Their move was compleatly unethical and problably leaves
them open to a class action law suit.
My “sweeping statment” hasn’t bit my butt yet. I’m aware of how often Lego
solicets opinoins and I’m aware of how often they go ahead and do it their own
way any way. The fact is that Lego is still loosing money and market share to
what should be inferior competitors. That pretty much proves my point.
Bionical story lines are really unimportant. The point is do they have 21 years
worth of consumers lined up? As kids tire of the line the line and their last
healthy stand will crumble.-Kne
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