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Re: This is stupid... I can't tolerate this *juniorization*...
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lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego
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Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:50:27 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Allan Bedford writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Dan Simonson writes:
> > Ok, this is going to be a long message.
> >
> > Just to get who I am straight, I'm Dan Simonson, I'm 13, I've played with
> > Legos since I was 3.
>
> > I recently got the Lego summer catalog. I ordered some bulk packs (in my
> > opinion way over priced for *bulk*) and a pack of two T-Plates for my town's
> > new layout. When I first opened it though I saw this stupid looking thing
> > called Jack Stone. I immediately though it was for three year olds, that it
> > was a
> > duplo set, and was immediately angry. The buildings have nothing to them! It
> > reminds me of the old cheap show James Bond Junior from when I was 4. After
> > recieving a Mania Magazine about it I think I almost got a headache. There's
> > no
> > point to it!
>
> Dan... if that makes you sad, just take a look at the style of buildings
> that LEGO used to put into their sets. These are the kind of buildings I
> got to enjoy as a kid:
>
> http://guide.lugnet.com/set/370
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> It's got proper walls, doors and a roof. It's got vehicles and yes, even
> armless minifigs. But you know what? When I was a kid and a minifig needed
> to get into a car (that had no doors) the minifig simply needed to touch the
> vehicle and they were inside. Then I set them aside (imagining they were
> inside) and drove the car around. It worked very well. But the best part
> was that the cars, the building.... everything was made of basic bricks
> which could be rebuilt into a million other things. Can you make anything
> else out of the Jack Stone Police HQ?
Uhg, now I'm depressed :-) But, no, really, I do like that polce HQ. It's
got a similar feel to the buildings I make today. I *really* wish I had some
of those older sets.
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> > Page 1, *Bionicle.* When I first saw Bionicle I thought it was aimed at the
> > Japanese market than anything else. It reminds me of the edited Dragon Ball
> > Z, a show so watered down and milked up that it's no wonder I don't like it
> > any more. One fight between two characters lasted 3-4 weeks.
>
> I think Bionicle is proof that a 5th column is at work inside the LEGO company.
Sounds good, probally is true.
> > Page 5, DIONSAURS. The last time I had any interest in Dinosaurs was when I
> > was in Kindergarden. I see where it comes in with Jurasic Park III and the
> > Lego Studios but do you have to release and waste all that petrolium (yes,
> > it's a non-renewable resource) on a hole bunch of dinosaurs we really don't
> > even need. And at $10 a piece, what 5 year old can even afford to waste $40
> > on them.
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> Bless your heart. I thought I was the only one thinking these thoughts when
> I saw the Jurasic crud.
I saw these in the store the other day and they come in Bionicle like cases.
> >
> > One additional comment before my extreme rage burns out...
> >
> > Ok, I remember not long ago Lego sent out this little yellow thing with
> > their s@h
> > orders about their mission statement or something like that. It said that
> > Lego is a creative toy, becuase one day, it can be a submarine, the next it
> > can be castle, and the next it can be a spaceship. Many of the things I have
> > seen in the last catalog have made that mission statement worthless and
> > obselete.
>
> Dan... it is my sincere hope that some brave employee at LEGO takes your
> original posting, prints it out, and takes it to the big cheese of the
> company. Someone needs to answer as to why you and I are so disgusted by
> the catalog that went out. We are more than 20 years different in age, but
> our reactions were oddly similar. Who does this catalog appeal to?
Nobody, and as an addition to what I said about the catalog, at Target one
of the only decent things on the shelf was a basic brick bucket.
> Allan B.
Dan
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