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Nephilim <jthompson@esker.com> wrote:
> I personally would prefer for LEGO to extend what they've done for
> Belville, to the Castle line -- just not so pink. Girls like castles
> and fairy tale stuff. Make pegasii, unicorns, witches, princesses,
> queens, princes, kings, etc. Just make the sets gender neutral - you
> don't need transparent pink castles. Fairy tale things are the sort
> of sets that would appeal to both boys and girls.
I tried a version of this last year with my advent calendar for my
niece. She got the big castle set (in 24 sections) with a princess
added in one of the two towers. It was quite popular, but I can't say
for sure that it wouldn't have been popular, even without the princess.
Play well,
Jacob
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»Daniela« - a small, classical LEGO sailboat:
http://lego.sparre-andersen.dk/Transport/Skibe/Daniela/
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Dear Lego,
I love the new collectible minifig series that are coming out this year.
Here are some minifigs I’d like to see in future releases.
1) Welder
2) Construction worker with lime green vest and lime green helmet
3) hazmat
unit
4) surgeon
5) Airport fire fighter
Thanks.
-Steven
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Marx wrote:
> I would love to see TLG develop a marble run/ball track theme. Marble run toys
> are my favorites next to LEGO and it would be great if I could bring the two
> together.
I agree, this is an excellent suggestion, and in fact it is a mystery to me that
they are not doing it already. A few carefully designed specialised parts would
almost certainly increase the mass appeal of such sets. While making tracks
with existing parts is of course possible, it can be quite tricky and time
consuming. It would be very natural to have something that could be snapped
together with less fuss...
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Bart Wistuk wrote:
> To all:
> I made a Lego Marble Run - made entirely out of Legos (acutally my
> children and I did). You can view the results here:
Wow - that's amazing, congratulations! I (and I expect others) would be very
glad to see some close-up photos showing exactly how your construction works...
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I got the latest BrickMaster set today, a mini-scale Atlantis submarine. It has
a Christmas present inside: two red 1x3 tiles!
Yes, you read that right: 1x3 tiles.
Tiles. Three studs long, one stud wide. And red.
The instructions list them as part 4533742, and the number molded into their
underside is 63864.
Thanks, LEGO Group!
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Per this
Flickr photo posting, does anyone know who the new Lego Ambassador ‘David
Furphy’ from Australia is and what his group ‘CALG’ is?
Could someone at TLG please look into this?
Thank you.
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Dear LEGO,
While out shopping for some new LEGO Collectible pens, I came across these:
This surprised me because on the hang card of the Belville pen P2171 shown below
produced by the same company (Stylus) it states, “...the knob configuration (and
the minfigure) are trademarks of the LEGO Group.” I’ve looked carefully at
these pens and I can tell you all the beads as well as the pen parts themselves
are identical in design. Any AFOL would recognize one of the bead shapes as
taken from a minifig head.
These items are also identical in design (although now they seem to be more
cheaply made) to the parts from the old collectible pens produced by the CDM
Company for TLG.
Have you sold your designs to the Stylus Company or allowed them to be used on
Disney brand items? If so, I am disappointed. Part of the fun of collecting
these pens was that they were exclusively LEGO pens. If not, maybe you should
check into this to see if they haven’t stolen your design.
Best regards,
Maggie Cambron
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Damon Burke wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Johan Korten wrote:
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For the people that want to build one with their own (or bricklink) LEGO:
http://www.ministickers.nl/ now offers a stickersheet that is a reproduction
of the original one.
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Has anyone bought any of these reproduction stickers? What is the quality
like and is this guy good to deal with? I seem to be having difficulty trying
to reach him by email. Cheers.
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The email server had problems for a while. I’m not sure about the intentions of
mister Burke, he asked information, even placed an order but did not hear from
him again after explaining the problems that we had.
Site is working correctly now again. Sorry for others that experienced problems.
You can always send an email to me of course (ministickers@gmail.com) if you
have questions.
Greetings Johan
p.s. I do it together with my cousin and my (handicapped) brother, both are not
very affluent in English so that also might cause some confusion now and then
but most of the times we are very quick and at last everything works out fine.
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Jordan Schwarz wrote:
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Gereon Stein wrote:
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I second everything that has been said about this set: It’s too good to be
limited to an exclusive group of commercial customers. Make this thing
public, and if Vestas objects (why on Earth should they?), paste a fantasy
brand on the turbine. That’s certainly the least effort there might be to
scoring an instant hit in the market.
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Over at the LEGO Ambassador forums, we have been actively discussing this set
and are as excited about it as all of you are. It is unclear from the
information presently available whether this set will ever be released to the
public. However, Steve Witt (of TLG) suggests that we collect all of the
feedback supporting this set so that we can deliver it to the LEGO City team
and show them that this Windmill (and sets like it) are the sort of thing we
want to see from City.
So, if you like this set (and seriously, who doesn’t?!), please reply in this
thread affirming your point of view, and we’ll make sure that the feedback
gets passed back up the Ambassadorial chain.
Jordan Schwarz
<<http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jordan/misc/ambassador
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Not really at #4999 VESTAS Wind Turbine, but a new 2009 set: #7747 Wind Turbine
Transport -. This appears to be non-motorized and smaller version. At least
someone at the LEGO Group, Inc. was listening.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=380806
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Johan Korten wrote:
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For the people that want to build one with their own (or bricklink) LEGO:
http://www.ministickers.nl/ now offers a stickersheet that is a reproduction
of the original one.
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Has anyone bought any of these reproduction stickers? What is the quality like
and is this guy good to deal with? I seem to be having difficulty trying to
reach him by email. Cheers.
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
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Indianapolis, IN
April 6, 2009
Indianapolis Museum Exhibits LEGO: Castle Adventure
Hear ye, hear ye, calling builders of all ages... join The Children’s Museum
of Indianapolis as they debut the opening of LEGO Castle Adventure. The new
traveling museum exhibit begins at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and
will visit 12 major markets in North America through 2013, reaching more than
2 million children and families.
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SNIP
Can we get a list of proposed dates and locations so hte LUGs can start working
on partnering plans with the local hosting venues?
Paul Sinasohn
BAYLUG
LUGNET #115
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Dear Lego,
Please consider making a product line of capsule toys, such as those found in
coin–operated dispensers in some retail stores in the USA. I would like to see
each capsule toy include one of the new micro-figs (from the buildable board
games to be released in Europe) and have a small buildable vehicle in scale to
the micro-fig, such as a car, truck, plane, etc. The vehicles could be in a
theme, e.g., all the capsule sets in a product wave would be police vehicles, or
fire vehicles or construction vehicles, etc. I think the piece count should be
such as to make the capsule set $1 to $2.
If the cost of the micro-fig would prohibit its inclusion in a small capsule set
with other pieces for the vehicle, other options for Lego capsule sets would be:
1) Vehicle-only sets, the size of the vehicle comparable to the mini sets in advent calendars a few years ago
2) Vehicle sets with a 1x1 cylinder brick with a few provided face stickers to make a micro-fig out of the 1x1 cylinder brick
3) A Regular Minifig with a tool
4) 1-3 of the new micro-figs
I believe the expansion of the Lego line into the impulse market has several
benefits:
A) High product/brand visibility: In the USA, the coin-op capsule toy dispensers are in a high visibility location at the front of the store, often at the entrance, so customers see them entering and exiting the store.
B) Collectability: small collectible items such as cards, card games and small toys have the attraction of continued fun for a small investment by the customer. The small price and size along with a possible unifying theme in each ‘wave’ of Lego capsule sets encourages collecting.
C) It fits the Lego Ideals: it’s really fun to get a small treat/toy, and when that toy is Lego, and the other capsule sets all work together, creativity and imagination are stimulated.
Also, I believe it would add to the product value if the packaging could be an
‘in-system’ size plastic capsule with Minifig-scale studs on ‘top’ and tubes on
the ‘bottom’, like smaller versions of the Duplo eggs from a few years ago.
Thank you for your consideration.
Jeff Szklennik
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To all:
I made a Lego Marble Run - made entirely out of Legos (acutally my
children and I did). You can view the results here:
search Youtube for:
"Lego - Marble Run - 100% Lego - Final - Wistuk"
or try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRTnFnTA0zQ
Nothing was cut, all peices can be reused and are available anywhere. The run is
highly flexible, easy to build and expand on.
I would be very happy to answer any questions you may have, as a ton of thought
has gone into this and I would love to share how it is done. It would have been
larger, but my wife started to complain.
Bart Wistuk
b5612@optonline.net
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> 1.More hairpieces in usefull colors other than black, i.e. blond, brown
> etc. Some hairpieces do come in colors like orange for example but orange
> isn't very usefull, so few real world people have orange hair.
So few people have yellow faces too :)
ROSCO
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1.More hairpieces in usefull colors other than black, i.e. blond, brown
etc. Some hairpieces do come in colors like orange for example but orange
isn't very usefull, so few real world people have orange hair. I am talking
about the newer funkier styles of hair here btw.
2.More variety in town torsos. For example, T-shirts. Jackets. Jumpers.
Polo Shirts. i.e. more casual clothes.
3.Sets 10145 (light grey bricks), 10146 (dark grey bricks), 10149 (dark
grey plates) and 10148 (light grey plates) in the new grays. For bonus
points add some 1 x 1 plates and maybe some 2 x 2 elbow bricks and plates.
I for one would buy a few of each if these sets existed (especially the
bricks) just to expand my collection of new grey bits.
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Chris Marx wrote:
(Last things first here...)
> So what do you think LUGNET? Is there any interest out there for
> this kind of thing from TLG, or am I all alone out here?
Given the the rise of the GBCs has been one of the most amazing things I've seen
in the AFoL community, I'd say you're far from alone. I'd love to see TLG come
out with some LEGO-based marble runs (or rolling ball sculptures, or any of the
numerous other names). I'm not sure why they've not done it already. With the PF
motors, there's a system to power lifts. Just package it up. They even have a
ready-made design study in the numerous GBC modules that are out there.
> 1. LEGO parts can be used to build almost anything imaginable.
> If we want to build ball tracks with LEGO it can certainly be
> done... That being said, specialized parts would be a huge
> advantage.
Also a huge (cost) disadvantage. Remember LEGO has tried to reduce the parts
pallet, so anything that expands it needs to really prove its worth. And since
it's quite possible to build GBCs/RBSs out of the currently existing LEGO parts,
I'm not sure I see a strong reason for expanding. The most difficult part is
building a reliable lift, and even that can certainly be done without new molds.
> 3. We know that there is some market for this type of toy.
That actually what puzzles me - there seems to be a strong market for this sort
of set, and it's one exploited by many of LEGOs direct competitors. Do they just
not wish to compete there?
> ...have special pieces to allow for the creation of custom shaped
> track geometries. I'm imagining some kind of bracket that would
> hold two rails for the marbles to run on, with the rails being made
> out of those hard plastic tubes that came with some of the technic
> sets.
It might be tough to join those very thin tubes with supports in a strong enough
way. The larger diameter "ribbed" tubing works quite well in this regard, with
normal parts (cross-blocks and similar) making for adjustable spaced brackets.
Would I buy these sorts of sets? Probably in a heartbeat, and I'll bet we could
sell them out anywhere a group GBC is displayed. The single most common question
being "where can I buy this?". 'Course, we've seen how well this sort of
argument worked for 9V trains...
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Brian Davis
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I would love to see TLG develop a marble run/ball track theme. Marble run toys
are my favorites next to LEGO and it would be great if I could bring the two
together. Here are some of my thoughts:
1. LEGO parts can be used to build almost anything imaginable. If we want to
build ball tracks with LEGO it can certainly be done. For examples just look at
http://www.baylug.org/zonker/ZMarble.html or any of the Great Ball Contraptions
that people assemble at LEGO conventions. That being said, specialized parts
would be a huge advantage. Think of how difficult it would be to create LEGO
model railroad layouts without special track and wheel pieces.
2. I think that marble tracks and complex looking rube goldberg machines have
the same kind of universal appeal as LEGO bricks. When you present someone with
LEGO bricks they just naturally want to pick them up and play with them.
Similarly, when you put someone in front of a marble track, they almost cant
help but drop at least one or two marbles in to see what happens. This sense of
kinesthetic curiosity is what drives folks to drop coins into those parabolic
funnels where the coins go around and around.
3. We know that there is some market for this type of toy. Every time I go into
Toys R Us I am tempted to pick up one of the marble tracks that are produced by
other companies. K'Nex has a set called "Motorized Madness Ball Machine" that is
very impressive, Magnetix makes the iCoaster set, and there are various other
ball tracks that are not part of a formalized building system, like the Skyrail
sets. There is even a toy called "Block and Roll Marble Maze" that is compatible
with Duplo bricks. At the higher price end of the scale there are some excellent
wooden ball tracks. The best in the world IMHO are the Cuboro sets made of 5cm
cubes. The next best is the Klimba system which adds specially designed track so
that the marble plays a melody by striking xylophone pieces on the way down.
Other great lines are the Quadrilla ball runs and HABA marble tracks. For the
truly old school, look up the Spacewarp 5000. A quick Google search can turn up
info and pictures on any of these for those who are not familiar with them.
4. So, knowing there are all these other types of marble run toys out there, why
am I so interested in having LEGO come out with their own system?
Well, the first reason is that I think there is some room for creative
innovation in marble track building systems. Cuboro is brilliantly designed but
limited by the fact that all the pieces are made of kiln dried 5cm beechwood
cubes. There are no long bridge type structures or spirals or even large curves.
Klimba is very specifically musical in nature and doesn't lend itself to
flexibility. All of the wooden tracks are a great value IMHO, but they are very
expensive, even for small sets. The K'Nex and Magnetix sets are neat but limited
in the ways the track can fit together. I think TLG could design a few new
pieces that would leverage the existing building system to create something more
open to creativity than any of the other sets.
The second reason is I could leverage my existing collection of bricks to make
bigger and cooler runs. :)
5. A marble track theme could be explored across multiple age groups. There
could be simple Duplo sets with large marbles, System sets with smaller marbles
and more complex tracks, Technic sets with motorized elevators, conveyor belts,
NXT marble sorters, etc...
6. Some of the challenges: A LEGO marble run should be well made, tightly
integrated with the current building system, and highly flexible. It should
allow for reuse of the pieces (some marble runs have you cut the rails to fit a
certain track layout), and have special pieces to allow for the creation of
custom shaped track geometries. I'm imagining some kind of bracket that would
hold two rails for the marbles to run on, with the rails being made out of those
hard plastic tubes that came with some of the technic sets. I'm sure we can come
up with something excitingly awesome if we put our minds to it.
So what do you think LUGNET? Is there any interest out there for this kind of
thing from TLG, or am I all alone out here? Thanks for reading this far, and
happy building.
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For the people that want to build one with their own (or bricklink) LEGO:
http://www.ministickers.nl/ now offers a stickersheet that is a reproduction of
the original one.
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In lugnet.dear-lego, David Simmons wrote:
And in orange! For use with Mars Mission sets. Orange BURPS, LURPS, and rock
boulders would be sweet also.
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Dare I add “T” and straight landing plates?
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And in orange.
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In lugnet.dear-lego, David Simmons wrote:
> I gave the mom a brief rundown of TLG's history with girls' sets like
> Belville, Scala and Fairy Tales, particularly their absence on store shelves
> in almost every retail store I've ever seen. However, I also told her that
> she could find much more girls stuff on the Lego website.
I've actually started seeing Belville sets at retail for the first time that I
can recall. Local TRUs have had two different sets (one $30-50ish, and one
$10-15ish) tucked over to one side, but I think one of those stores had them
marked for clearance.
> I also described how TLG has been through some very drastic restructuring
> lately and finally showed a profit again. I opined that this return to
> profitability would hopefully mean that more girls sets might appear on the
> shelves in the future.
Or it could be that now that they're profitable again, they might determine that
the girl-themed sets just aren't good business. I sorta doubt it, if they've
still got some in production (they've done a pretty thorough job of culling all
the money-losers in the last few years), but it could be that they're just
working their way up the ladder, and that once sales on a given theme fall below
a certain threshold, it's all over.
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