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Re: The Bar Does Not Go Down
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 11 May 2004 01:24:06 GMT
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This has been a complaint of AFOL’s since before Lugnet. Unfortunately,
new parts (new molds) is part of Lego’s strategy. They can patent new
parts and copyright new sets (instructions) so that the competition can’t
copy them.
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Well, they can patent an infinite number of new sets and instructions with the
existing parts.
Regarding new parts, they seem to be making as many new molds as possible lately
because they don’t want to leave any possible shapes available for Megablocks to
start making. Unfortunately for us, this raises price. Unfortunately for TLC, I
think Megabloks is doing so well because of the price, not because Megabloks has
a part that Lego doesn’t.
TLC is attacking on the wrong front. This is going to put them six feet under.
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Besides, every time I see a “one use part” that I think can’t possibly be
used in any other way, someone online finds a way to incorporate it into
their own creation. I saw a design in the Lugnet Space newsgroup not long
ago that used lots of the old, brown, boat hull pieces. That ship looked
way cool.
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Two things about that. First, I am continually amazed by the ways people think
of to use some parts as well. It’s one of the reasons I never get tired of
brickshelf. However, regarding boat hull pieces, even if nobody found another
use for them, there have been lots of sets that used boat hull pieces so at
least TLC got their money’s worth out of the mold.
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That’s what some customers want. A friend of mine used to build his sets
according to the instructions and then never take them apart again.
Weird, but there are customers that do that.
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Yes, and I understand that large pre-molded parts make those models easier to
build and maybe look a little better for people who want to do that. However, do
they have to please one crowd by punishing the other?
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Now they just need to make it affordable
and slow down on the production of strange un-needed parts.
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I agree, to a point. The point where I diverge is the point where Lego has
to make sets that appeal to today’s kids. As I said earlier, I’m 35 and
my kids (make me) buy lots of toys I hate, but the toy companies still
get my money.
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Well, I must admit that I truly wouldn’t have any notion of what things kids
think are “cool” today. I don’t have any children of my own, so you probably
know better than me here.
However, I have to ask - what happened? We had more than a decade where kids
were happy with town, castle, and space Lego sets in yellow boxes. Did these
sets start to lose popularity so TLC had to adapt to stay trendy, or did they
start to lose popularity because TLC was trying to be trendy?
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| "Rocco J Carello" <rogue27@mac.com> wrote in message news:HxIzw6.17uB@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) has (...) and (...) kids (...) probably (...) kids (...) these (...) they (...) In my mind, this actually raises another important question... should (...) (20 years ago, 11-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) This has been a complaint of AFOL's since before Lugnet. Unfortunately, new parts (new molds) is part of Lego's strategy. They can patent new parts and copyright new sets (instructions) so that the competition can't copy them. Besides, every (...) (20 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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