LEGO Shortage

Garr · Post by **Garr** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:40 am

Lego Says It's Running Out of Toys
Tuesday October 31, 11:44 am ET
By Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press Writer
Lego Says It's Running Out of Toys for Christmas

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Children hoping to get Lego toys for Christmas may be in for a disappointment.

The Danish toy maker is having a hard time keeping up with demand for its popular plastic building blocks as toy stores stack their inventories for the Christmas season, company officials said Tuesday.

"Many of our most popular products are sold out," Lego spokeswoman Charlotte Simonsen said. "As part of efforts to restructure the company and focus on our core business, we had to make some cuts and the company has not had time to readjust its production."

Simonsen declined to say how many orders had been turned down, but said the restructuring changes had affected the production of Duplo bricks and boxes with Lego City, Star Wars and Lego Technik sets.

The Billund, Denmark-based group has been trimming its staff at home and abroad since starting a restructuring program four years ago. Part of its production and distribution has been moved to countries with lower wages than Denmark, including the Czech Republic and Mexico.

In 2005, Lego sold its four Legoland amusement parks in Denmark, Britain, California and Germany to the U.S.-based private-equity group Blackstone Capital Partners.

Boersen, Denmark's leading financial newspaper, estimated that Lego could lose 750 million kroner ($127 million) because of lost Christmas sales. But Mads Nipper, a vice president at Lego in charge of marketing, said that figure was too high.

"We don't know what the Christmas sales will be like until Christmas is over," Nipper said.

The group posted a net profit of 505 million kroner ($86 million) in 2005, compared with a net loss of 1.93 billion kroner in 2004, on strong sales led by its Bionicle line of snap-together creatures.

WBOB · Post by **WBOB** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:31 am

Had no idea these were a "Danish" product.

mmm not China?

Sankofa · Post by **Sankofa** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:43 am

I bought some just the other day.

The Hand of Poo · Post by **The Hand of Poo** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:20 pm

Sankofa wrote:And I'd suggest that self-righteousness manifests itself most strongly when one makes fun of others.

Yeah, you nailed it. The whole point of my post was to ridicule those who struggle with the english language. Those stupid bastards, oh how I love to hate them and increase my self-worth because I can properly pronounce an L.

You're a lot smarter than this, or so I thought.

sevesd93 · Post by **sevesd93** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:54 pm

adam atherton · Post by **adam atherton** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:55 pm

..aaaaaand a long overdue

before yet another whiny bitchfest gets locked....

adam atherton · Post by **adam atherton** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:14 pm

my parents still give us a lego kit in our Christmas stockings.

it will be a sad day this year if we dont get our legos.

but maybe we'll get eggos instead!!

Massage...Bored · Post by **Massage...Bored** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:15 pm

adam atherton wrote:but maybe we'll get eggos instead!!

The most delicious cardboard on the planet. Seriously.

adam atherton · Post by **adam atherton** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:17 pm

Massage...Bored wrote:
adam atherton wrote:but maybe we'll get eggos instead!!

The most delicious cardboard on the planet. Seriously.

thats two!

one more and people will start talking, Z...

Shaggydoo · Post by **Shaggydoo** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:18 pm

Hey.....what about the lego's.......this was about the lego's man. You guys really waste a lot of time don't you..........Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha......and so on.....

=^-..-^= · Post by **=^-..-^=** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:21 pm

Oh, so now we've sunk to making fun of poor defenseless preprocessed breakfast fooods, have we?

You people have no shame. Hundreds in BAttle Creek make their hard-earned living cranking those out, you know, and you dismiss it with a snide comment!

I'm quitting these boards, I swear!

Garr · Post by **Garr** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:34 pm

How the hell? So completely railroaded into something sucky.

I am ashamed.

echosauce1 · Post by **echosauce1** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:53 pm

I'm so let down. I saw a lego topic with 50 posts and geeked out. I was expecting pictures of seriously awesome lego structures and towns and all kinds of sh*t.

I should have known better.

zenmandan · Post by **zenmandan** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:52 pm

For those of you looking for actual Lego pictures, I thought these may help. I also thought I'd throw in a bit of everything mentioned so far in this completely retarded heated discussion. Enjoy.

Lego Star Wars wasn't mentioned, but I like the game, so I had to throw this in.

Leggo my Lego Eggo!

Here's your building, whoever thought they'd be seeing one in here.

Some Escher, just for good measure.

Last but not least, a little religion.

sharkmansix · Post by **sharkmansix** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:16 am

As a kid my brother and I used to build big spaceships out of our Legos. Upon competion of the ship we would stage battles; slowly blowing apart our aramadas.

I still have some negative feelings towards my brother though, more then once in frustration he knocked the whole ship out of my hands, sending it crashing to the floor below.

Our Lego's were well used and didn't have the 'snap tight' ability as new Lego's. Once it hit the floor it would explode much like a real space ship would. Pieces would go bouncing as my rage turned into saddness. I still remember the tears streaming down my face as I tried to reassemble my battlecruiser.