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Re: Adult lego sets.
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Sat, 15 Jan 2000 04:26:29 GMT
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kevin-knoot@uiowa.edu (Kevin Knoot) wrote in <FoCJ8u.GL9@lugnet.com>:

In lugnet.dear-lego, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.dear-lego, Jodi Neal wrote:


Likewise, LEGO's instruction books are beautiful, but more detailed
than • adults
need (or want, usually).  And the instructions add significantly to the
cost • of
sets.  So simplify the instructions!

Steve



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!

Kevin

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 town, fairly difficult with sets with good
brick mixes like the star wars, and essentially impossible on the large
technic sets, where you're not quite sure what some parts of the model
do in the first place, or have no pictures of some of the model as
reference.

Not that I actually think this approach would help Lego sell more sets...

I do agree with Steve though.  I find most of the instructions slow
down the building, so I usually only reference every 4th or 8th
instruction image.

-r'm



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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)  

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(...) 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! (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)  

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