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Re: PROPOSAL for new track (was Re: New Lego Track!
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Mon, 16 May 2005 15:45:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

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   That’s not to say it couldn’t be profitable if we were willing to pay higher prices, or if LEGO could figure out how to sell more successfully.

That’s my huge hang-up. Why is it so impossible and dangerous to make an investment into the Trains line, yet at the same time some completely clueless individual or group convinced the right people in TLG that a huge investment into Galidor would some how, some way make $$$ for TLG. It just doesn’t make sense to me.

Both situations seem like no-brainers, although exactly opposite of the decisions TLG has made (Go with Galidor, sit on Trains).

At the very least, a trains-line bomb is better than a Galidor-line bomb. Interest in trains will go away. Galidor was gone virtually before it arrived (although the embarrassment of Galidor may never go away;-)

JOHN



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  Re: PROPOSAL for new track (was Re: New Lego Track!
 
In lugnet.trains, John Neal wrote: Interest in trains will go away. Sorry. Meant to say, "Interest in trains will NOT go away" JOHN (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)

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  PROPOSAL for new track (was Re: New Lego Track!
 
(...) I agree, I think the subject line could have been chosen a bit more clearly. I also have a question about the images of the different radii track? Are these new images or just recolors of the images that Ben Fleskes did? If they're new, how do (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.au)

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