To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.dear-legoOpen lugnet.dear-lego in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Dear LEGO / 1817
1816  |  1818
Subject: 
Re: Stuff I'd like to see...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:54:39 GMT
Viewed: 
5302 times
  
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Richard Marchetti writes:
> To Whom It May Concern (and therefore the least likely to actually read it):

<snipped often>
> 
> We don't see many animals.  Trees and other plants are currently pretty
> limited.

Agreed. I'd like more animals - Duplo has the most now - and make them
articulated (at least head movement like the horse and polar bear). (They've
"juniorized" the Duplo elephant! Couldn't guess why).

> ...food items...eating utensils>

This actually sounds somewhat against your argument to Lego's ability to
compete with Playmobil. These items are available in vast quantities within
many Playmobil sets.

> How about making ready made musical instruments like
> lutes, guitars, folk harps, bagpipes, pianos, harpsichords, pipe organs, huge
> drums, tubas, trombones, and saxaphones?

Take a look at Fabuland, they made a few back when... - I have a drum, tuba
and accordian. I wouldn't be too injured if they came back. There's the
trumpet from Fort Legoredo.

I've seen a model of a piano somewhere recently ("Well done!" to whomever it
was done by)- so I think they'd not want to make items that could be
constructed - to avoid the "juniorization" comments.

> How about filigree black gates with
> which to surround a Victorian manor

Maybe not to scale or color, but there's something along these lines in
Belville. Maybe they'd adapt them? A friend of mine built a truly beautiful
gate and fence set from grey lightsaber blades and other Star Wars pieces.

> 
> The point is: stop giving us ready-made "juniorized" pieces of stuff we can
> build ourselves from other modular parts, give us ready-mades of the stuff we
> could never build properly to scale!!!  Is this idea so hard a concept to
> grasp?


I don't totally disagree with the making of juniorized elements. Some cannot
be made from bricks and plates (with the excact same dimensions) - but those
that can be should go away.

Wayne



Message is in Reply To:
  Stuff I'd like to see...
 
To Whom It May Concern (and therefore the least likely to actually read it): TLC's ambitions are probably an exercise in overreaching. Belville will never be Barbie. These terrible video games will never compete with Doom or Myst. These timepieces (...) (27 years ago, 10-Mar-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)

35 Messages in This Thread:












Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR