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Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.dear-lego
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lugnet.year.2005
Date: 
Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:10:39 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2005, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117978


http://www.action-figure.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14013&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0


The new direction Lego has taken may just save the company, but yet, at what
cost? The ideals of the past gave relevance to the notions that Military (guns)
and Mortality (graves) were not the ethics the company was founded upon…

What compromise is this?

...unfortunately, it’s a realistic one!

But the new gun-heavy Dino line, and darker-realism of Harry Potter are a
solution to a juniorization trend. Albeit a drastic one, yet nevertheless
something better perhaps.

The grittiness of Vikings, and the ghoulishness of the grave corpse/zombie are
truly a wake up call to the world…TLG has seemingly chosen to evolve.

And it seems that under a new directors management, Lego has finally grown up.

                     This is an interesting ride…

                                                   --==Richard==--



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  Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
 
Greetings all, New poster here. While looking at Lar's pix from Toy Fair, I noticed that Lego had moved the minifigs in the Harry Potter theme from traditional LEGO yellow "skin" color to colors intended to more realistically match the actors (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
  Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
 
(...) I must respectfully disagree. I don't see the new Dino and HP lines as a new compromise. Lego has had guns before (pirates, space, adventurers) and graves (adventurers, castle). From what I saw, it doesn't apppear to be much of a radical (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)

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  Pics from ToyFair 2005
 
I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Lego StarWars 2005 V.I.P. Gala event at the LEGO showroom at 25th and Broadway, in NYC, as part of this year's Toy Fair, so naturally I went... I uploaded a bunch of pics to BrickLink. They haven't been (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005, lugnet.lego) !! 

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