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Subject:	Re: LEGO Plans $15M Push for Bionicle Games
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2001 03:55:15 GMT
Reply-To:	dstaudt@/nospam/hotmail.com
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targeted at the older audience??? they abviously have not been researching us very well all i see around is more universal technic sets, no juniorization and beinging back the bulk sets Harvey Henkelman wrote: > > In lugnet.general, Suzanne D. Rich writes: > > Nothing really new, but a handy bullet list of spending highlights: > > > > http://www.dailyradar.com:80/news/game_news_7606.html > > > > -Suz > This is really too bad for most of us AFOL's. I had hoped that LEGO would > return to their traditional business of offering sets with more versatility > instead of all this. I can see it now, after all the Bionicle promotions are > over with, the stuff will gather dust on some kid's bookshelf. At least with > traditional LEGO, you can make something new should you find your current > MOC getting 'old'. I pity the creative potential of today's kids, if this is > LEGO's indicator of such. Bionicle = Soloflex, Craftmatic adjustable beds, > Cabbage Patch Kids, Milli Vanilli, all fads which will soon disappear. Oh, > and by the way, how did LEGO make out in 2000? History tends to repeat > itself if we don't learn from our mistakes. LEGO, welcome to your > Stalingrad! -Harvey -- Daniel Staudt <dstaudt@hotmail.com> Lugnet NUT #872 I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message. <http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/5404/>

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		Re: LEGO Plans $15M Push for Bionicle Games
(...) Older than town Jr., perhaps... (...) We're not the target audience of a 15M marketing campaign, you can be sure of that, I would bet dollars to doughnuts.(1) 1 - a saying that used to mean "great odds" but now that a decent Krispy Kreme is (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general)

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		Re: LEGO Plans $15M Push for Bionicle Games
(...) This is really too bad for most of us AFOL's. I had hoped that LEGO would return to their traditional business of offering sets with more versatility instead of all this. I can see it now, after all the Bionicle promotions are over with, the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.general)

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