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Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures
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Mon, 9 Feb 2004 06:11:47 GMT
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Aaron West wrote:

> If LEGO wants to hit MEGA BLOKS back with a Power Ranger/Dragons theme
> Castle line, so be it.  Kids will be drawn to it, sucked into a
> never-ending spiral of buying LEGO blocks and making bigger (!) castles
> themselves.  Worked for us 25 years ago, why not try to reproduce that
> success in 2004?

I'm not part of that "us".  I stopped buying Lego when Dragon Masters came
out.  There's nothing evil about fantasy Lego castles, but I am not
interested in fantasy Lego castles.  Note that the first fourteen years of
Lego castles were non-fantasy.  TLC's experiece with drawing in customers
with fantasy castle stuff lies soley in Dragon Masters and the fabulously
successful Belville Fairy Tale and Fright Knights lines.

> LEGO Direct has pledged to research ways to get us our classic earth
> tones, continue providing Legend sets and good exclusives like the
> fan-based Castle assortment and is not going to ignore a profitable sale
> to AFOLs.

Note that according to this message
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=820
Lego Direct no longer exists; hence LD can no longer honor any such
commitments it may have made.  Whether the remaining branches of TLC have
any interest in those areas remains to be seen.

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  Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures
 
(...) TLC has plenty of fantasy in all of their product line. IMHO, all of the castle line is fantasy, from it's inception onward. I never saw much realism in the line, more of a child-like representation of what we all dream life of a knight would (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)
  Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures
 
(...) The Dragon Masters were the first Castle sub-theme that I saw as being anywhere near as good as the combined Robin Hood Guys(tm) sub-themes. All of the basic castles just seemed kinda bland to me. Grey walls, more grey walls, grey walls with (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: Official KK and HP 2004 pictures
 
(...) Perhaps not. But there is always LEGO Direct. I have been having a great building experience with the Legends and MOC product, the bulk accessories, and the overwhelmingly good building material found in the HP sets (Frequently on clearnce!). (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.castle)

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