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Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:34:38 GMT
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Hey Lar,
Did the topic of "WINDOWS" come up at all?? Old, new, current or other colors??
Besides Train windows that is....
Gary Istok
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Shiri Dori writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> > > I feel very strongly that:
> > >
> > > Effectiveness is not the same as Quality.
> > > Popularity does not equal Elegance.
>
> And the Studebaker company isn't selling a lot of cars these days even
> though the Gullwing was an elegant, high quality machine. So was the Avanti.
>
> > > I thought The LEGO Company believed that "Only the Best is Good Enough."
> >
> > Evidently, they changed their minds...
>
> In the area of web sites they have... and *thank goodness* for that. (1)
>
> The technology is a moving target and if they'd waited to do a website till
> they had it best/perfect, we'd still be waiting, since you *can't* keep up
> with the latest.
>
> Internet time means get something OKish out there and iterate, iterate,
> iterate. Iterate or perish. But first, get out there.
>
> Even LUGNet, which has lost first mover advantage in a lot of areas that
> were in the LUGNet Plan by waiting, seems not to have waited to get
> *everything* right before doing it.
>
> Todd points out that they have had some iterations already to get it right.
> True. But holding the 1996 and 1998 iterations against LD seems unfair.
> Especially when said by someone that only wants to measure Steve Jobs
> against what has happened lately. LD wasn't even there in 1998, much less 1996.
>
> (I hated my Ford Pinto. But I don't hold that against the current Ford
> product line, which is pretty good, overall...)
>
> If you want to measure LD webspace progress, measure lego.new (the internal
> code name for the new lego.com), which came out in October, against what was
> there before, and measure how it's changed even since it came out. It has, a
> lot. Even when you factor high season (which is when you do NOT make changes
> if you have any sense). And especially when you factor in things marked for
> change already.
>
> As for appreciating fine wine, the target market for lego.com doesn't drink
> a lot of wine. :-)
>
> Seriously, an 8 year old wants different things from a website than I do.
> *MY* 8 year old LOVES lego.com and is very sticky there. So do all his
> friends. He can't wait to see what's next in the bionicle saga. We make a
> lot about how we AFOLs are kids at heart. True, we are, but not when it
> comes to websites. We have compartmentalised expectations, which is good.
> But remember the target market.
>
> In fact, before you post in lego.direct, repeat it as a mantra. Remember the
> target market. You're not all of it.
>
> 1 - It is true in the area of bulk, as well. And thank goodness for that. I
> didn't want to wait for the "perfect assortment". Each iteration gets better
> than the last.
>
> ++Lar
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