{"id":1742,"date":"2016-03-07T22:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T22:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2016-03-07T22:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T22:08:44","slug":"lego-engineered-a-remarkable-turnaround-of-its-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/07\/lego-engineered-a-remarkable-turnaround-of-its-business\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO engineered a remarkable turnaround of its business."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did the Danish toymaker fall so far behind and jumped so high this week?? \u00a0 The company&#8217;s problems can be traced back to 1981, which the world&#8217;s 1st handheld game, Donkey Kong, came to the market, inspiring a debate at LEGO headquarters what this meant for the future their product.\u00a0 About 1990 Lego moved to other products, but NO turn around.\u00a0 Men &amp; women born after 1980, lacked the time and patience for LEGOs and ran out of ideas &amp; storylines to build around.\u00a0 This generation wanted INSTANT gratification.\u00a0 NEXT TIME IS HOW THEY TURNED IT AROUND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did the Danish toymaker fall so far behind and jumped so high this week?? \u00a0 The company&#8217;s problems can be traced back to 1981, which the world&#8217;s 1st handheld game, Donkey Kong, came to the market, inspiring a debate at LEGO headquarters what this meant for the future their product.\u00a0 About 1990 Lego moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}