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Re: Thanks Lego!
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 23 Mar 1999 08:04:05 GMT
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Like Tom McDonald said,
> Dear Lego,
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> You've been designing sets without those big hollow bases! Thanks you! Please
> keep it up!
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> Those hollow base pieces are more difficult to store than most pieces.
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> The Ninja sets have all had their prisoner cells/traps (whatever) built into
> their towers, which is a great idea, and well within the limits of
> authenticity. I would like to continue to see better models built in this way.
> Using a hollow base does not really improve playability and functionality
> because other than using the piece as a hill, it can't do anything else.
In short it aint LEGO, multi usable pieces in a great stock and use your own
imagination to create your own surroundings.
> I would rather have those grey hollow rock-type pieces used to make models
> higher, or even the equivalent in bricks, because at least they are pieces
> that can be rearranged for a really good castle or fortress base that has
> accessible chambers
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> On another note, my wife, who does not build with Lego, while thumbing through
> the most recent Shop-At-Home catalog, was commenting to me again the other day
> on the color scheme in the "girls" sets. In a nut shell, here are the
> highlights of her comments:
> 1) She said that she really didn't care for the overpowering amount of pink
> and pastel colors, and wished they were balanced with the other colors of Lego
> bricks. As an example, 5807 Royal Stable does not have to be entirely yellow
> and pink.
> 2) She thought the bigger figures were not very attractive. She also said that
> Lego should stop trying to be "Barbie", because they can't do it, and do what
> they do the best: Lego.
> 3) She then made the comment that it seemed like men designed what they
> thought little girls would like to play with. To expand, she thought that Lego
> should make sets that reflected places and ideas that reflected their own
> lives or what parents did, with more character interaction: drive cars with
> cell-phones, go to store to buy clothes and food, amusement parks, aquariums,
> restaurants, zoo, etc.; basically the other side of life *after* Johnny Thunder
> marries Gail Storm and goes home. How about a baby minifigure so they can have a
> baby? Girls love to play with babies, even toy ones.
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> Here's a idea: develop a minifigure that is an infant, and make it have
> changeable facial expression, either using heat sensitive plastic for its head
> or a heat sensitive sticker for its face: when hot it's crying, when regular
> it's happy.
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> Of course, I'm not speaking for all girls, just one, but I'm sure she's in
> good company.
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> Well, gotta go. Thanks for listening.
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> -Tom McD.
I think theres no need for all of this, when I look at my own kids, 2 girls and a
boy, and the girls 15 and 10 still play with DUPLO blocks, just to create their
houses. They only need the surroundings and make the rest on their own by creating
it in their heads, just a maximum of 3 layers thats all, the rest is IMAGINATION.
I can spend hours just looking at them.
So where are all the prefabricated pieces and models for ? Just selling and
nothing else.
Keep building and make your own world by using the LEGO bricks.
Like I did in the old times when LEGO even didnt have wheels to make an vehicle
and used some other wheels to make an carriage.
Almost the idea of DACTA where the also make combinations with different materials
witch are at hand in a normal school, paper, carton, wood sticks and plastics.
Nico
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