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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:35:48 GMT
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Not really shop@home specific, but I thought it was worth commenting on:
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As for the boxes the images are almost too detailed and some customers have
problems distinguishing what is actually in the box.
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I agree .. it’s very difficult to tell the difference between the model and the
background on some sets. Often I don’t notice smaller parts of the set because
they get lost in the background image. Bring back simple backgrounds. You seem
to have the right idea on designer sets (4888 has a very nice box design, for
example) and some of the most recent sets (such as 8801 and 8802) are starting
to have reasonable backgrounds.
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Instruction quality has all but disappeared. Dark gray and black are
frequently hard to distinguish and the images in some cases are blurry and or
pixilated. The large mars rover set is a great example.
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The worst instructions are the CAD ones which use “realistic” lighting. Stop
that! Having every surface a different shade makes it impossible to figure out
what color a part is, as it’ll show up different depending on its orientation.
Go back to flat colors, with no shading. Also, I liked the mid-80s convention
of printing black bricks with white outlines. That worked really well, and I
think you should bring back that idea in today’s world of dark grey bricks where
black and dark grey are indistinguishable in many instructions. Also, some
instruction manuals have distracting backgrounds which make the parts hard to
discern.
S@H-specific stuff:
More castle and pirate legends. You know how well those sell. You seem to sell
out of them fast enough. So do more of them.
Perhaps some legends sets which are made up of an assortment of small sets. For
example, a selection of different small classic space sets. You could even
choose them such that they draw from a common assortment of parts, like the
designer sets, to reduce the part count. (People who want all of the models
built simultaneously could just buy multiple copies of the set.)
Trains: new track and stuff which others have mentioned would be cool, but what
I’d most like to see would be the ability to buy all of the train sets without
the track and speed regulator. That cargo train set looks really cool, but I’d
rather be able to buy it w/o the track and speed regulator and run it on the
track I already own. I understand why you need to include all that stuff in
retail boxes, but couldn’t S@H get a stripped-down version? Even better would
be if you sold all the cars and engines separately, but I can see how that would
take up too many SKUs.
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