Dear LEGO : 1337


Dear LEGO / 1337

Re: Adult lego sets. —Kevin Knoot

(...) adults (...) of (...) Steve, you're really on to something there! By only providing simplified instructions, Lego would be tapping into the puzzle market!!! 3D, 1000+ piece puzzles for whole-new crossover market possibilities. I smell a hit! (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Richard Franks

(...) Not a bad idea :) Have you seen any of the old 'blueprint' instructions? They're like a puzzle in themselves! Richard (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Jeff Elliott

The puzzle thing is very good - I don't know how many others do this, but I usually try to build a new set from the box cover illustration. For smaller sets, it's easy; for technic sets, it's often quite difficult. But fun! Jeff (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Jonathan Wilson

(...) kind of like lego meets puzz-3d? -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Remy Evard

kevin-knoot@uiowa.edu (Kevin Knoot) wrote in <FoCJ8u.GL9@lugnet.com>: (...) That's how I build most of my new sets. Dump the pieces out, hide the instructions, and see how close I can get to the pictures on the box. This is usually trivial with (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Richard Franks

(...) I think I'll try that in future :) I got a bunch of early-mid 70s town sets, and the instructions in those actually made me *think*, I had to lie down from the shock! My point being - I'd really love to know why the instructions and sets (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Jonathan Wilson

(...) I was in k-mart booragoon (australia) today looking to see if the 2000 lego catalog was in and I overheard an interesting conversation. I cant remember the details but basicly the upshot was that a parent chose the tv helicopter set for a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Jonathan Wilson

(...) corrently making one named after an ocean creature that is not a fish. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Jeff Thompson

In lugnet.dear-lego, Jonathan Wilson writes: Even more at fault are several (...) screen (...) wire (...) wont (...) makes a (...) rosco (...) Random aside - so Mario and Pikachu are Nintendo mascots, and Sonic is Sega's mascot. What's Sony's (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Mike Timm

(...) I believe that the closest Sony has to a mascot is Crash Bandicoot, but they haven't played him up as a mascot as much. Mike All other themes are just spare parts for Castle! (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Scott Edward Sanburn

(...) Crash Bandicoot, If I recall right. And I have to disagree with the video game thing, but alas, another debate.... Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator/CAD Operator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Richard Franks

(...) Yep - besides which, the reason I posed the question in this newsgroup, was to see if TLC wanted to supply us with a reason for the whole juniorisation movement. Not that they need to defend themselves in any way, of course.. but the question (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Scott Edward Sanburn

(...) I sure would like to know, but it doesn't seem to matter to much as of right now. Besides, i have to use my existing collection first, anyway. And when i am done, maybe I can look to the new LEGO direct, or whatever! Scott S. (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Gary R. Istok

(...) Well even in the 1970's they were already going towards simplification. In 1963 (when I was 9) I got a JUNIOR CONSTRUCTOR set #717 (a Samsonite LEGO set). It was a model kit of a modern house (a 2 story house with flat roof that looked (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Richard Franks

(...) Hmmm, do you think then that the decision was already made.. and being able to use computers to render the instructions made it that just bit easier to simplify the instructions? Does anyone know when TLC started using computers to draw (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Selçuk Göre

Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:388379C3.FA795E...ich.edu... (...) In 1963 (...) It was (...) similar (...) of (...) was (...) They gave (...) imagination to (...) "Gary's Junior Constructor Set" must be the most referenced set (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Gary R. Istok

(...) Heh-heh, no actually the Town Plan (#725) is my most often mentioned set. But the earlier 1961 Junior Constructor (an English Cotswold style manor house) is my holy grail. It was the first model kit not related to the Town Plan system that (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Manuel Cueto

Hi I just bougth a town wood plate. It have a Blue Lego mark and it must from 50´s. I saw in your message that you mention a 1957 German Town Plan #700, where I can found a picture of it?. Or from the other Town plans? The second question is where I (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Wayne R. Hussey

(...) I have to agree to the comments about instructions. It used to take 20 steps to show how to put a 300-400+ piece model together. Now it seems that there is an instruction step for every other piece. Waaayyy too many steps. I end up building (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Jason Catena

(...) One straightforward way to do this would be to reduce the printed materials included with the bricks to Star Wars-style ideas, and possibly stages of construction (especially for Technic sets). Then take the (computer-generated) set of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Steve Bliss

(...) You're right. Most parts of the 8448 S3 Super Car II instructions are very easy, especially since they provide plenty of circles and arrows to point out what goes where. But there were a few steps I looked at and wondered why they put so much (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Tom Stangl

(...) Of course, detaild plans for the alternates are available on the web site, which is nice, because I now have built the Hot Rod (with a few mods), and am working on turning my 3rd set into the Racer ;-) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Bryan Wong

(...) Your 3rd set?! How many do you have in total anyways? *sigh* I just want a 2nd set... :) Bryan (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Tom Stangl

I have 3. I managed to coupon my way into getting them decently cheap from the TRU site in Dec when they were on sale for $99. I would have NEVER bought them at retail, even though they might be worth it. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —Steve Bliss

(...) adults (...) of (...) Hmm. That's not what I was thinking, but it sounds cool to me! :) I was thinking more about repeated sections (once the instructions show how to build the first floor, and floors 2 through 10 are duplicates of 1, don't (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Adult lego sets. —James Brown

(...) <snipped bits> (...) Or better yet, sell a specific grouping of plates and bricks that make a mosaic picture. Rather than an instruction book, have a booklet with several "alternate models" That would be cool! James (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)