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Re: Castle = yes
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:02:31 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
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1. As it was said in a recent thread in the Classic-Castle forums about
Harry Parter (funny picture was involved, no minifigs were actually hurt),
LEGO could be taking the time in Harry Parter... err Potter to recharge
their thinking, to ressurect castle after the recent Castle themes, to start
over.
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I think this is most probably. However, leaving Juniorization can only
happen if TLG expects it’s target audience to be patient enough to build a
detailed model. For us, thats the prime reason to buy a set, but for most
kid fans, it’s playing with sets. That means the time between opening the
set and having it built needs to not be too incredibly long. I know that was
the concept behind the HP line.
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I know that this is an old issue, but it would be nice if TLG took a role as
industry leader and worked against the I-want-everything-spoon-fed-now attitude
running rampant through the child-marketing industries. Instead, TLG is simply
playing to the bottom line (an understandable choice for a corporation, but less
than what I’d like from The Toy Of The Millennium).
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Altho, I’d love to see them do sets based off other famous books.. perhaps
Tolkien’s The Hobbit.. the story is much more kid friendly, popular due to
the movies, and I’m sure the Intellibricks licence only applies to the
movies.
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For what it’s worth, Intelli-Blox appears to be defunct, or at least there were
no releases for The Two Towers, nor do any appear to be on the horizon for
Return of the King. For that matter, I don’t think that the entire intended
product line for Fellowship was ever released. Playmates (the underlying
company) might still own the rights, but they don’t seem to be doing anything
with them.
Dave!
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| (...) I argue that they *have* in fact taken such a role: [LEGOSet 4101] Now, they still have to make money so they still may have to pander elsewhere for a while, but DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE the importance of Designer. The directive to do these sets (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| In lugnet.castle, Dave Schuler wrote about Intelliblox I wrote to Playmates a year ago and received a reply that, no, they were not doing further LOTR playsets. Also that TRU had some left. (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I think it's interesting that when our generation was younger, we loved to build things with the sets that had no pre-molded parts and no special characters. We even had to build our own horses for a while. Yet we loved the toy enough to keep (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) I think this is most probably. However, leaving Juniorization can only happen if TLG expects it's target audience to be patient enough to build a detailed model. For us, thats the prime reason to buy a set, but for most kid fans, it's playing (...) (21 years ago, 7-Oct-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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