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Old 06-17-2014, 08:09 PM
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Good question. One thing they might say is the catalog is so crammed full of stuff that they don't have any room for descriptions. *I* might say that it is so crammed full of similar rockets that they are tired of making new stuff up, but that would be a little too cynical, since I understand why they have so many similar looking rockets (i.e. they sell). It probably has to do with something like they've found through market research that the marketing descriptions don't really help sell rockets (particularly through retail).

At one time (1980 or so), I was a little cynical about the descriptions themselves (I thought many were too cutesy) and I suggested that they tone them down a bit. I don't think they listened to me (I'm sure Mary Roberts would have let me know!) because it took thirty years for them to tone them down by eliminating them all!
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