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interlocking products
For fun and brand loyalty
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Perhaps I’m talking to the wrong age group, but does anyone remember how some early transformers toys could be joined together to create a larger robot? Some other examples of this marketing ploy were power rangers toys that connected together to form the megazord, or the Inspector Gadget figure from Mc Donalds figure that had to be built piece by piece. This was a brilliant selling technique of course because the to get the must sought after toy you would have to by every single figure in the whole line which I assume many children did.

Although Brand loyalty is slightly less important now as half of the universe is owned by The AOL Time Warner Conglomerate and we have little choice not to buy one of there products, companies should make certain products that are compatible and joinable together, for instance a new Audi, and a new Imac should be able to transform into a Giant, super-intelligent break dancing robot, or perhaps a backpack from the Gap, a two liter bottle of Pepsi twist, and an Emerson ceiling Fan could be interlocked together to form a personal helicopter.


bobofthefuture, Jul 19 2002



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       how does everyone feel about the category i have placed this in?

bobofthefuture, Jul 19 2002
  

       [Trying to fit Halfbakery.com into Salon.com without Boondocks.com falling off the top...]

DrCurry, Jul 19 2002
  

       Nice idea. They sell Bionicle transformers where three will make one big one. I think you should interlock this category with product, toy and other, relationships.

FarmerJohn, Jul 20 2002
  

       bobmcgyverofthefuture

thumbwax, Jul 20 2002
  

       This is brilliant!!! Why don't we take it one step further and make our whole society made up of lego!! --see 'lego houses' or whatever other topic about building real things from lego... :)

Slayter, Aug 10 2002
  

       Windows, Internet Explorer, Office... oh wait, you mean seperate products where putting them together is OPTIONAL?!

TerranFury, Feb 26 2004
  

       A good idea. like a couple of bicycles that can link up to make a bike for 2. Or 3. Or 19.   

       The trick obviously is to add value as the product interlocks and grows in size.   

       Inspire the sheep to consume more.   

       Voting for.

Giblet, Jan 07 2005
  

       But if you dont have a product that connects to, it would drive you insane, just looking at the connecting things, you would be driven to go find what it connects to.
You'd be buggered

andrew1, Sep 28 2005
  


 
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