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Re: banner year for castle
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:35:53 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Peter F. Guenther wrote:
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8779 “Knights Joist, version II?” - generally looks fine, except for the
“wheeled horses”.... just use regular horses!!!!!!!!!!” insert SCREAM
here The decorations look fine, but slightly detract from the rest of the
set.
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I’m fairly certain that the purpose of those two structures on the sides is
to launch the horse-cart-thingeys at one another... for which regular horses
clearly would not work. For a kid it probably will have great play value.
Peter
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It may have some play value for some kids...but many kids will see these sets
for just what they are...unattractive toys not worth nagging the parents about.
I think we - and more importantly TLC - make too many negative assumptions about
kids today. Clearly the company’s thinking is that the video game generation of
today can’t distinguish between a beautiful model and a crappy one, and that
they can’t possibly have the patience to build a 6080. In my opinion such
thinking is total BS. If kids are fed this crap, then of course they’ll eat it.
But that doesn’t mean that they can’t appreciate something better if given the
option. The only reason I’m an AFOL today is because of the beautiful sets I
saw in the beautiful catalogs of the late 80s. I can’t imagine any kid being
similarly inspired by the current garbage. If TLC keep up their current
philosophy, there are bound to fewer and fewer new AFOLs as the years go by.
Another random thought. At the local toys r us I saw a wonderful little display
for mega bloks dragons right next to the legos. Lego had nothing to compare.
And thanks to the current sets, they won’t any time soon. Whatever quality
issues mega bloks might have, on the surface at least, they’ve started to look
better than lego. And that’s something unlikely to be entirely lost on the same
aforementioned kids.
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| Hello! (...) That's exactly my thoughts. Thanks you pointed that out so clearly, I wouldn't have been able to do this in English ;-) Bye Jojo (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: banner year for castle
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| In lugnet.castle, Tanvir Mahtab wrote: SNIP (...) I'm not a castle-head so I have little personal attachments or expectations for these castle sets. That said, I agree that the models in and of themselves are not very attractive, especially when (...) (21 years ago, 20-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) I'm fairly certain that the purpose of those two structures on the sides is to launch the horse-cart-thingeys at one another... for which regular horses clearly would not work. For a kid it probably will have great play value. Peter (21 years ago, 17-Dec-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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