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Somone at LEGO apparently wrote:
> For all LEGO models, we are hoping to provide kids with a great building
> experience. We have learned over the years that it is difficult for kids to
> build certain models in which there is a large number of one colored bricks.
My experience as a child was just the opposite. I always had too many
colors and not enough of the same colors. That made me want to buy more
sets, of course...and it still does.
Marketing, marketing, marketing.
> To help make the experience better for kids of all ages, we have inserted
> certain color changes into the sets to make this easier.
LOL...Yeah, right. Who do they think they're fooling? Why feed us garbage
answers like this? Does TLC think we're all a bunch of idiots? We're not
good enough for a completely candid answer? :-/ :-/ :-/ sigh...
David Simmons wrote:
> I just want to say that I think this explanation is poo. If there's one
> thing I've observed from looking at all the MOC's that young kids build,
> it's they don't care as much about color the way adults do. Kids use
> whatever brick fits the purpose.
Maybe that's the evidence they saw, and drew the wrong conclusion. :-)
> At all the Baylug meetings I've attended
> (and I'm sure you guys'll agree), when the kids get down on the floor to
> make stuff with all of Uncle Dan's bricks, they just grab bricks at random,
> no matter what color they are.
I'm curious what age range of kids that was. I would think the older the
kid, the more important color consistency is.
> Remember the photos of all the alternate models on the back of Classic Space
> set boxes? There weren't any green or red bricks tossed in to make the
> experience "easier." It's called imagination TLG, and we're pretty good at
> using it!
We all know that they put the boring old colors in because it makes it just
that much harder for people to have lots of the good new colors. Simple
bottom-line marketing. They're a toy company out to make a buck like any
other sometimes. :-(
--Todd
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| (...) I was just going to let this thread pass on by like so many other TLC-bashing threads, but your comments here rang the proverbial bell in my mind. As a kid (somewhere between 9 and 12 years old) I used to have a friend that would come over and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Actually, what I meant was... Who does this particular quoted marketing and/or PR person think they're fooling? Does this particular LEGO employee think LEGO fans are idiots? Why else the stock answer? --Todd (not implying that spotter bricks (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| This is my word for TLG's recent penchant for inserting random color bricks SW sets. Here's the excerpt from the FBTB site interview: (...) I'm referring to things like the green brick in >the Shuttle. (...) experience. We have learned over the (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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