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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.
>
> 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?
>
> I said What?
>
> She said, This gray, it's different, it looks wierd or something.
>
> So I told her that Lego is making this new color now and left it at that.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
Personally, your daughter comes across as being extremely stuck up and nearly
teetering on spoiled.
The thing that is getting lost in this the most is the fact that Lego, as
awesome as it is, is a toy. Everyone who is a member of Lugnet has a love for
Lego in some form or another. And like most people on here, I too have been
collecting it for the majority of my life. I'll be honest, the color change
doesn't make me happy either and for a couple reasons:
1) Storage of another color
2) the fact that in the last few years the colors of brown, grey and dark grey
have become very common in sets. Almost every theme now has a heavy dose of
these 3 colors and to change them (for arguements sake) halfway through "is"
stupid. I mean a handful of Star Wars sets use just the 2 greys and brown and
tan.
So for us to chilishly sit here and rant on and on about it, bitching to Jake
about it day in and day out is also stupid. I like many of you wish things could
be like the 1980's again where Lego produced some of the best damn sets ever; in
all themes (town, castle, space, pirate, technic, model team).
But when I see comments from a 12 year old refuting a GIFT from their parents
because they don't like a certain element (no pun intended) of their GIFT, its
pretty pathetic if that is what we have come to.
Lets all pause for a moment and remember why we REALLY love Lego.
--member 1893
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