Subject:
|
Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:48:26 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
2274 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
> * What do you think LEGO would never do that you’d love to see?
* How about some instructional and/or historical book/CD-ROM series?
* All the instruction scans from a year or set of five years...
* Master Modeler series...
* How'd they do that? - Miniland
* A David Macauley-esque look at LEGO from design through production
and distribution - I've seen these on castles, cities, and transportation, and
they're really cool. One about LEGO would be cooler.
* Microscale sets in more themes:
* Town
* Great/Classic Architecture ofthe World
* Castle
* Modular Moonbase
* Trains
* S@H Pick A Brick, changed seasonally/quarterly; I can specify that I want
between 1 and 2000 of a piece on Bricklink - shouldn't LEGO, as the producer, be
able to somehow offer this same service?
* True LEGO Factory design-to-build service - we send in a design using an
allowable pallette for a specified time period with a fixed price per piece, and
LEGO ships us the exact set we design, without all the extra parts. Prices and
pallettes would change with each time period/season/quarter.
* Buildable train track parts - break it down further than the
ties/track/turnout conglomerations already offered. Inidividual rails could be
used for monorail or combined for regular trains; laying ties and rails seems so
much more LEGO-ish than snapping whole track segments. And reduced cost for
specific pieces (as opposed to track segments) might allow greater participation
in an increasingly cooler theme.
* Ditto the themed parts packs mentioned above: animals, foods, tools,
clothing, plants, minifig heads/bodies/hair, and so on
* Ditto color mosaics.
* Collaborations like that with NASA and Ferrari should be expanded, and
might move into more Maersk-ish directions: CAT, Deere, Mack,
Boeing/Grumman/Lockheed-Martin, etc
* Factory/industry-themed sets - hoppers, piping/wiring/hoses, fabrication
machinery, walkways/ladders/stairs, conveyor belts, product
movers/trucks/carts/forklifts, etc. Several sets in a series could lead to an
entire assembly line/office/storage area, several groups to an entire facory.
Much could be done with already-existing elements.
> * What types of themes/concepts should LEGO stay away from?
* Licensed movie themes,but not as much as:
* Realistic fleshtones
> * Are there any community projects/products (Moonbase? Great Ball?) that
> you’d like to see turn into a LEGO set?
* All the modular stuff out in the community: Moonbase, Great Ball, Classic
Castle Community, Vignette
> * (And as a follow-up to the last question – are there any projects/products
> that LEGO should stay away from?)
* Nothing comes to mind
> * What types of products/themes/concepts do you think are missing from the
> assortment over the years?
* LEGO, as a plastics producer, is in an ideal position to help sort and
store LEGO elements - Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and Star Wars Figures all have had
for years parent-company storage as part of the puzzle, and a part that seems
fun for kids. Why not a compartmentalized minifig storage box, or
Akro-Mills/Plano/etc type storage bins? LEGO is expert at modularity - smaller
storage units could combine into medium and larger sized collections.
* Adult clothing sizes.
> * Are there things missing in general? On box? In the instructions? In the
> box materials?
* Maybe a skill rating (1-5), like in plastic model airplanes. This is
currently described somewhat, but I remember it being fun for me to try higher
skill level models when I was a kid, just to see if I had what it took to build
a Skill Level 3 model when I was used to Skill Level 2 models.
>
> Thanks for your contribution!
* Thank you very much for the opportunity to share my thoughts.
Peace and Long Life,
Tony Alexander
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
|
| (...) The best idea I've seen here yet. I think that the 20 second flash animation that they had on the website about how a brick is made was cute, but obviously nowhere near the depth desired. I want to see a brick from conception (why is it (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
79 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
