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Subject: 
Re: TLG and "Seeding"
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:50:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
To help make the experience better for kids of all ages, we have inserted
certain color changes into the sets to make this easier.

LOL...Yeah, right.  Who do they think they're fooling?  Why feed us garbage
answers like this?  Does TLC think we're all a bunch of idiots?  We're not
good enough for a completely candid answer?  :-/  :-/  :-/  sigh...

Actually, what I meant was...  Who does this particular quoted marketing
and/or PR person think they're fooling?  Does this particular LEGO employee
think LEGO fans are idiots?  Why else the stock answer?

--Todd (not implying that spotter bricks don't make building easier)



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  Re: TLG and "Seeding"
 
(...) Thanks for clearing this up. I would tend to agree that using the spotter brick explanation to explain the wacky color changes on the *outside* of a lot of recent sets (e.g. the Imperial Shuttle(tm), what's wrong with either white or gray??? (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: TLG and "Seeding"
 
(...) My experience as a child was just the opposite. I always had too many colors and not enough of the same colors. That made me want to buy more sets, of course...and it still does. Marketing, marketing, marketing. (...) LOL...Yeah, right. Who do (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)  

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