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Re: Military Lego Sets
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:52:16 GMT
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Amen! Amen! Amen!
In lugnet.dear-lego, Marc Cook writes:
> It’s very obvious that military Lego sets would sell like wild fire. I
> don’t think producing a M1A1 Abraham Tank set would promote violence or
> portray TLC as a evil corporation. It would drive sales, and continue to
> promote and spread Lego’s into every household in the nation. And it could
> be done in an educational fashion.
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> Military themed toys are a part of practically ever child’s toy collection.
> Why not capture a piece of this market. Lego’s are loved, and a military
> Lego set will be cherished.
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> Military Lego Sets (Historical Military Sets) Ideas
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> Romans
> Greeks
> US Civil War
> WWI
> WWII
> Modern Military
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> Imagine just doing WWII sets. There is such a vast number of Sub-themes
> that could be produced. By nation, by type of machine (planes, ships,
> ground units).
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> While the Knights and Swordsmen of the age of castles is a distant piece of
> this planet’s history it’s still a violent and bloody age. Yet the irony
> is that Lego produces these
> type of sets. Does TLG consider the historical and brutal wars of the
> ancients less relevant and damaging to children because they occurred
> hundreds of years before the likes of Hitler?
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> War and war machines are reality of this world. As a toy they will sell,
> and sell and sell. Kids end up using Lego pieces to create tanks, and
> combat jets anyway if not modern themed machines, then future crafts of
> destruction. The Sopwith Camel is a great start. I hope sales of this
> rather pricey and less advertised model has demonstrated the appetite for
> such kits.
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> I grew up with the cool space sets of the 80’s and early 90’s. Inevitably I
> would end up building combat jets and tanks from these pieces. If you
> give the child the ability to build anything he can imagine with Lego’s and
> sure enough it’s often something of a military nature, why not jump on the
> bandwagon and provide beautiful sets of tanks, combat jets, and even naval
> vessels.
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> If I had to pick this first set series of any military to be sold to the
> masses it would be a World War II, it would be minifig scale naval planes
> from the US and Japanese pacific fleets with authentically dressed minifigs.
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES! DEFINITELY! A Corsair! a Spitfire... wait,
no, no spitfire! then mine won't sell! (shameless plug) p-51 b-17, b-25 and
oh the list goes on!
> And then naturally surface ships from this era.
> Wow, imagine a model-team minifig scale replica of the USS Hornet? I’d pay
> 399.00 for a set with 4,000 pieces.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Military lego is definitely taking off, just wait till our build.military
group is here!
-Geordan-
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> M.A Cook
> http://www.netpresonic.com/lego/
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