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Re: Adult lego sets.
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Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:37:43 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Richard Franks writes:
> 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.
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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 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...?
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> Richard
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 (when I do build the model) by turning the page and doing the last
pic on it. I couldn't believe when the instructions for the newest "super car"
had two books and about 150 pages! C'mon Lego, reduce your printing costs and
increase the number of pieces to make up the difference.
Wayne
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 | | Re: Adult lego sets.
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| (...) 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.
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| (...) 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)
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| | Re: Adult lego sets.
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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