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Re: Fwd from a builder: Colors don't match, among other things!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:21:00 GMT
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:37:39 GMT, "Peter F. Guenther"
<peterg1974@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > Again, I can't possibly fathom that a change to the knob and
> > tube system is a result of the marketing folks running to management screaming,
> > "kids can't put the bricks together anymore!!! We must make it simpler for
> > them!!!"
> 
> Not that kids can't put them together, but to make it easier--just like holes in
> the minifig heads made them easier to pull off and slots in the technic pins
> made them easier to pull out.  Making a change to make something easier for the
> user doesn't imply that the user is incompetent or less competent than in the
> past.
> 
> Peter


I thought the holes in the minifig heads were for safety reasons, to
prevent choking if a child were to attempt to swallow them. I think I
saw that mentioned in a LEGO book somewhere...

C



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  Re: Fwd from a builder: Colors don't match, among other things!
 
(...) Not that kids can't put them together, but to make it easier--just like holes in the minifig heads made them easier to pull off and slots in the technic pins made them easier to pull out. Making a change to make something easier for the user (...) (23 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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