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Re: A Wishlist (or mini-figs)
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:21:25 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Ken Bailey writes:
> > Sorry if I've scared you with all that next 5 years stuff ;-)
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> I almost died in my chair!
Almost what I thought when I read that one. Will Harry Potter
consume the prospects of a castle line in the near future as the
StarWars syndication did for the space line.
> I have understood that both the SW and HP lines have been very good for TLC,
> so I guess there is no arguing with success. I just don't see why a
> licensed toy has to entirely replace an existing theme line -- I really
> don't see these licensed toys as actually replacing the themes in question.
> Someone tried to make me watch the HP movie (I fell alseep) and while I saw
> some castle-like venues and myth-based creatures the HP stories are very
> clearly something besides castle.
Yes, I believe that Hp is more themed to a mythological/ fantasy setting
than castle. In my opinion, it's modernized fantasy taken to the extreme,
which gets boring fast. In fact, I read all four books and saw the movie,
but I don't see what exactly made HP "catch on". Almost every book is the
same, except that Harry Knows more spells or fights a new minion.
Oh yeah, the movie was okay, but between that and something like Road to
Perdition, I think I would skip Harry Potter (I can't get over those
mob movies :)
> Thankfully, the Legends, Classics, and MOC lines are perceived as something
> else again -- so at least we have those things. And I hope there will be
> much more there.
Thank goodness for that. I'm hoping lego will release a new legend (that
I can either afford, or appeals to me) sometime soon. Just hoping for either
some new castle items or anything blacktron.
> I dunno, this wish-listing is making me remember back when LD was announced.
> Maybe I am still asleep, but I seem to recall a discussion about LD
> releasing rarer elements to order. I think it was supposed to be something
> like LD announcing a set of possible elements in certain colors and then
> people voting on them until the interest was high enough that TLC would be
> sure of meeting costs plus a reasonable profit margin. Something like that.
> I can't recall if that was part of an official LD statement or just people
> wishing for stuff themselves. Ho hum...
Maybe...I like the challange of getting rare parts, but can't stand the
prospect of having to resort to drastic measures to get a so called "scarce
piece" in todays sets like for instance, bulk light grey bricks. Maybe
those are just tactics to boost bulk sales, or you can always blame
juniorization .
<<_Matt Hein_>>
check it: http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/~1112/
> -- Hop-Frog
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