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Re: Minifigures in Legoland
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Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:32:17 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, James Stacey writes:
> An old family friend called round my house a week or so with her children (3
> boys between 7 and 13) - keep with me, this is on topic honest, They live
> down in Cornwall and hadn't been to south wales before. The 3 boys are all
> huge Lego fans and between them have built up quite an impressive
> collection. They wanted to come to my house to see my Lego collection (not
> big by Lugnet standards but big enough). After they had been apparently the
> youngest said he had enjoyed my collection more than going to Legoland.
> Praise indeed :)
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> Then it struck me that they had felt the same thing I had on visiting
> Legoland (Windsor). There are no minifig scale models at all in the park
> (outside of the shop). There are fantastic, awe inspiring models throughout,
> but nothing minifig scale.
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> I remember it must have been 83 (rambling mode on) I went to Hamleys in Bath
> and they had a large display cabinet with a diorama of Castle Lego - showing
> off the new product line. I was transfixed by the details and design. I was
> also hooked and have brought every castle set since (Dont you dare drop the
> line). Similar to the dioramas in the idea books I have always found them
> fascinating. New ideas and building techniques galore from the good people
> who supply us with plastic bricks. I appreciate the scale needs to be bigger
> for the glorious architectural masterpieces in miniland, but a room full of
> cases with minifig dioramas would be divine! especially as I havent seen one
> in a shop for years and all the displays nowadays seem to take the form of a
> small LCD screen.
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> I'm sure Im not the only one to think this :)
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> On a related point, If you at Lego (or anyone else for that matter) has
> pictures of minifig displays, lets see them :)
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> --
> James Stacey
> ---------
> www.minifig.co.uk
> #925
The main Giftshop at LEGOLAND, CA has a few display cases with dioramas,
featuring the Ninja line and the Adventurers. They really do attract a lot
of attention, but unfortunately none of the product behind the glass is
available anymore! LEGO does not seem to put a priority on showing pride in
the actual model of the items for sale to wow the buying masses. If they
could just update these to show off current product (a nice touch to the
park would be a kind of "Past Product Showcase Museum") then maybe kids and
parents would get a little more excited and buy LEGO! Frankly, I like the
new sets, but compared to sets from the 1980s and 1990s they are rather
emabarssing piles of brick. Could it be that the reason we don't see many
official dioramas is because TLC knows they could do better? I think they
certainly could. Even more frustrating is that the best stuff from LEGO
right now only comes from Shop At Home, so my Wal-Mart shopping neighbors
never see the good stuff that TLC has to offer. LEGO is moving back toward
some good product, but $60 for a Jack Stone set is absolutely yucky. That
is some funky weird product. I'm sure that I am not the only one who would
like to see a little more effort from TLC, and more proud display of product
too.
Sorry for the rant,
-Aaron-
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