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Re: From the mouth of babes
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Mon, 10 May 2004 03:27:35 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Melanie K. Fields wrote:
> Dear Lego,
>
> Last week I gave my 12 year old daughter 2 of the new Harry Potter sets. She was
> not aware of the gray changes, it just hadn't come up. What follows is an
> account of her exact words.
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> Happy to get the new sets, she dumped them out on the table. Her face changed
> to a confused expression and she said HUUH? What's this?
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> I said What?
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> She said, This gray, it's different, it looks wierd or something.
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> So I told her that Lego is making this new color now and left it at that.
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> She said, This is dumb, I don't like these grays, it's too blue and besides,
> how's it posed to match all my other Harry Potter sets? I wish I could tell
> Lego this is dumb.
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> She said, I really like Buckbeak, but he'd be a lot better if he was the same as
> they used to make. I don't want these sets Mommy, you keep them.
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> Thank you,
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> Melanie
Very noteworthy Mel,
My children and I don't talk the meat and potatoes of collecting or toys in
general either. This topic is something that I generally don't enter into with
them, or recall ever having brought up around them.
Interestingly, after the new Spiderman and Harry Potter sets came out I got a
similar reaction from my 4 year old (5 soon, loves Beleville and Adventurer's,
girl) and my 7 year old (bot, likes Bionicle, Potter and other action LEGO). My
son was ticked off a bit that his Potter castle he'd worked so hard to build
would not match right, and told me that he needed a new Sterilite contaier just
for the new color parts, so he would not mix them up. My daughter just said
they look weird, and the people look like ghosts.
Kids are noticing the difference. And if they are like ours, they do not seem
very happy about it. As I have said before, Crayola and LEGO are in a child's
world of color expression. You cannot do away with the fundamental rules of
color without causing some of the Laws of the Universe to shudder.
Didn't something like this come up in America in the 1960's, about colors
getting along and co-existing?? Can't the greys/browns (new and old) just get
along? Even side by side in sets and on shelves??
-Aaron West-
<<http://www.legomasterbuilder.com/images/finalists/aaronw.jpg>>
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