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Re: Adult lego sets.
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Sat, 15 Jan 2000 12:06:16 GMT
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Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Richard Franks wrote:
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> > In lugnet.dear-lego, Remy Evard writes:
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> > > 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.
> >
> > 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 have.. simplified. Is it really because chlidren won't invest time in
> > something challenging when easier rewards are available, or don't enough
> > parents have time to build with their chlidren or...?
> >
> > Richard
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> 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
> little kid because of the small number of pieces. The kid wanted to fiddle with
> the starwars sets in the display case but the parent said no because they were
> only to look at. One of the things the parent said is that the starwars sets in
> the case were bigger kids toys. I am sure that many parents who say that about the
> starwars sets would probobly say the same about an ice station odyssey or a 6080
> kings castle or a black seas baracuda or any of the other non junorised sets. I
> think that junorisation is simply a way to get kids off duplo and into lego at an
> earlier age. Basic is dissappearing, except for a few tubs that TLG only makes
> because mega bloks makes tubs as well. TLG wants kids to go from primo to duplo
> and then from duplo straight to city center, knights kingdom and other such
> junorised crap.
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> TLG is not the ultimate cause. They have to do it because if they made town sets
> like they have in the past kids wouldn't play with them because they have a short
> attention span. Why do they have a short attention span? It is all because of a
> black box that all of us have that makes a noise and displays a picture on the
> screen depending on which of several buttons you push on a little black box that
> you use to controll this device. Even more at fault are several
> grey/black/whatever boxes that you can insert a flat plastic disk or a small
> plastic cartridge into and when you push a button on the machine the screen
> displays different characters, some of which the user can move around the screen
> by pushing buttons on a small object that is connected to the machine by a wire
> and some of which are trying to destroy the player controlled characters. I wont
> name names but one of the companies makes a game that has a small red itallian
> plumber and his brother, a small green italian plumber and another company makes a
> game with a small blue headgehog that has gotten more speeding tickets than rosco
> mglassion(sp) (the guy who holds the current land speed world record).
>
> --
> Jonathan Wilson
> wilsonj@xoommail.com
> http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
I should also say that one of the companies mentined as making these boxes is
corrently making one named after an ocean creature that is not a fish.
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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