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Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:20:25 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> Of course I agree with people that the Town Jr line is bad as a Town
> line. But I think that people should take into consideration that
> they are not designe with the same crown in mind as the earlier Town
> sets. If people don't like juniorized sets, they should simply don't
> buy them. I feel pretty confident that one can build nice town MOCs
> from the parts selection available from other sets.
Well said.
Let's review:
Someone asked about seeding or using "spotter" parts, questioning the
accuracy and or legitimacy of the explanation given by TLC (which
explanation, I reiterate, I agree with as being accurate and legitimate. I
have observed kids in the target age range and the spotter parts help. Heck,
they help ME(1). This isn't about creativity, it isn't about what MOCs you
can make, it isn't about product quality, it's about helping follow
directions) and we seem to have veered off into Standard Product Rant #1. As
per usual.
As much fun as that is, (nobody likes a good rant as much as I do) it isn't
what the original post was about.
Does anyone have better data (mine is anecdotal, based on observation of a
non scientific small sample of children, some of them mine) to confirm or
refute that spotter parts help the build process?
Or does everyone just want to bash away at TLC as per usual? If so, carry
on, I guess, but don't expect much useful stuff to come out of the thread
other than feeling good that we bashed TLC again. As per usual.
Personally, I'm interested in ways to improve the quality of model
instructions. And that includes using spotter parts. The problem matters to
me for more than purely curiousity reasons, and it's a very interesting problem.
I am in the middle of developing a set of instructions that have to work for
multiple model color schemes, because I will be allowing customers to select
the colors for 6 different portions of a model and have to provide
instructions that make sense and that are easy to follow no matter what
colors were chosen. It will be quite a bit more complex (of an instruction
problem) than what TLC has done so far with their steamer, I think. (spotter
parts are only tangentially related, of course)
But if y'all would rather bash, feel free, don't let me stop you.
1 - with the process of following instructions. I don't need any help being
creative, c.f. www.miltontrainworks.com, thank you very much.
++Lar
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| (...) I for one have no problem getting spotter parts if they are tactfully concealed within the model and don't detract from the design. No bashing from these quarter. That said, Jake voiced opinions (that were not limited to spotting) which I (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I agree with your points here, but I would still say that the 6407, being a Town Jr set, is aimed at a different crowd than the 672. That makes them difficult to compare. It's a bit like comparing a Duplo set with a System set. Not quite, but (...) (23 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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