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Re: Adult lego sets.
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Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:39:56 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.dear-lego, Kevin Knoot writes:
In lugnet.dear-lego, Steve Bliss writes:
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, 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!

<snipped bits>
Following through on the puzzle thought -- print one side of each brick with a
picture, and make it a real jigsaw puzzle (without a real jigsaw, of course!)

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
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



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  Re: Adult lego sets.
 
(...) 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)  

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