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Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 2 May 2005 21:23:58 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Jake McKee wrote:
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Even the ISD wasn’t targeted to AFOLs alone.
There were a great many Star Wars fan (non-AFOL)
buyers of that product,
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This was something that caught me off-guard at Celebration III in Indy.
Certainly 99.9% of the folks there were Star Wars fans, yet the LEGO booth was
*always* hopping, selling product like crazy. The ISD sold out - they were
taking orders to be shipped first thing Monday morning from folks at the
convention. Prior to this, I figured a good portion of the sales of ISDs was
likely to AFOLs. No longer, after watching a Star Wars feeding frenzy.
--
Brian Davis
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: 10170 TTX Intermodal Double-Stack Car Preview
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| (...) Mark, the reason I took this personally is because I was one of the people making this decision. I know it sometimes seems like the LEGO Group is some big, cold, floating entity in the sky, but it's a group of people just like any community. (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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