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Re: LEGO in Washington Post
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Mon, 20 Aug 2001 04:56:20 GMT
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Despite LEGO® releasing the new classic and legend sets, I can't help but
feel that they are continuing to slip away from their winning formula used
from the beginning. The Bionicle stuff is total limitation on one's
creativity (at least in my opinion) I know that had Bionicle been marketed
to us in 1986, my then 11 year-old self would have sneered at LEGO® for
making sets which 'don't fit in with my other stuff'. Too bad that kids are
hooked on drugs, video games, and five-minute fads these days, which really
serve to cut the attention span. This, combined with the erosion of our
public school system- are creating a generation of kids bearing names of
people such as Harris and Klebold and the like. If I remember right,
video/computer games and inattentiveness on the part of the parents and
school were sited as an influence leading to the shottings at Columbine, not
LEGO®. We NEVER had school shootings when I was growing up, please forgive
my seemingly pointless ranting. -Harvey
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| (...) Interesting rant Harvey, but I take offense to a couple of things you mention in it. (...) If their formula had continued to be a winning one throughout the '90s, Lego would have continued to use it. I prefer to look at it as 'they held on as (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | LEGO in Washington Post
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| It was mentioned a couple weeks ago that some AFOLs were interviewed for a Washington Post article - here it is: (URL) also found that WAMALTC was sort of mentioned in the "datebook" section on the 16th - for the Greenberg Toy and Train show this (...) (23 years ago, 20-Aug-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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