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40hz:
I really can't get that upset about the Lego thing. Maybe the original was ahead of it's time, or maybe it just wasn't marketed well enough...
-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2012, 12:57 PM)
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It's not an issue of bad marketing or being ahead of its time. Go dig out the full story of what went down with that. You will be disgusted by the time you're finished. :)
40hz:
Those were absolutely not "ripoffs". Those famous American products
-TaoPhoenix (September 30, 2012, 12:45 PM)
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Um...Legos are not an American product even if Lego DK is very careful not to claim to have invented the interlocking toy block it is based on... ;)
f0dder:
Those were absolutely not "ripoffs". Those famous American products
-TaoPhoenix (September 30, 2012, 12:45 PM)
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Um...Legos are not an American product. ;)
-40hz (September 30, 2012, 01:05 PM)
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WHAT?! You mean something as hugely popular and internationally known as LEGO aren't all-Amerikan? It's made by FURRENERS?! Even the original, which Leg Godt ripped off, was from abroad? Day-um!
... ;)
40hz:
^I think part of that is because, in the US, having a business failure with your name on it isn't the automatic end of your career like it often is in many other places. People expect (or at least accept) business failures over here.
Bad as that can be at times, it still makes businesses and investors less afraid to take chances.
TaoPhoenix:
It's not an issue of bad marketing or being ahead of its time. Go dig out the full story of what went down with that. You will be disgusted by the time you're finished. :)
-40hz (September 30, 2012, 01:03 PM)
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It might in fact be the very definition of Bad Marketing. After all, no one said Marketing had more than a passing kiss with the Truth. So if one company is legit first, and the next company slams $100 million and pulverizes you, that's ... Marketing.
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