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Re: Adult lego sets.
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Date: 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)  

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