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Subject:	Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:23:53 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Mark Sandlin writes: > Josh Baakko at shi_web@hotmail.com wrote: > > > > > I also > > > > think that the larger ones could have been built better, but WHERE ARE THE > > > > DIESELS? > > > > > > To which diesels are you referring? > > > > I'm waiting for some. > > Josh > > Well, perhaps you should look at it from a sales perspective. > > Diesel engines (IMO) look like a shoebox with wheels. The trains currently > on shop.lego.com are far more interesting to look at (IMO) than a diesel > engine would be. > > Things that aren't interesting to the consumer generally don't sell very > well. TLC is probably counting on more than just the die-hard train nuts to > drive sales, so they probably are trying to make the trains as interesting > as possible to people like me who aren't train nuts. You are so right. Mundanes want cute. They think trains are cute things that puff. Think Little Engine that Could. Think Thomas!!! (every show should have a Thomas...) In fact, in this month's TRAINS, REAL railroad museums were talking about how much of a draw a Thomas is. They are mundanes. They don't get why getting the details exactly right or at least close gets us jazzed. If they did, they wouldn't be mundanes. But TLC *has* to market to mundanes. I don't like these locos. They are too cute. That is a GOOD SIGN. I am not a mundane so I don't know if they are the right kind of cute or not to sell well... we shall see. > Of course, I could be completely off-base, but that's kind of what it looks > like from here. Spot on. Star Wars isn't technically accurate either. ++Lar

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		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
(...) Agreed. Don't forget that in the process of helping to promote LTC's at train shows, LEGO gets to send a postcard with a picture of one of these cute trains to lots and lots of people. I don't think that's an accident, neh? FWIW, I'm not a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
(...) Mundanes? Er --wha? Oh... for a moment there, I thought this newsgroup had accidentally got cross-posted to lugnet.off-topic.sca ;^D ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head -- Mark's Lego(R) Creations (URL) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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		Re: 20 (yes TWENTY) new trains at LEGO.com/Shop - Themes \| Trains
(...) Well, perhaps you should look at it from a sales perspective. Diesel engines (IMO) look like a shoebox with wheels. The trains currently on shop.lego.com are far more interesting to look at (IMO) than a diesel engine would be. Things that (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego.direct)

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