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Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:49:20 GMT
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You obviously don't visit FL much ;-) Pink is very popular there, boys or
girls (Remember Miami Vice? No, they didn't paint the buildings those
colors just for the shows ;-) )
I think what they need is MORE of the pastels, so proper FL architecture
can be built. More pieces in pink, more in aqua, more in light blue, more
in tan, and make a new light brown-orange-peach (dark earth tones - think
AZ desert). Do that, and make sure to make all of those colors available
in arches and curved pieces (6081/6091), and people could go NUTS with art
deco!
Just a counterpoint to support pink ;-)
Laura Gjovaag wrote:
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> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, R2 wrote:
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> > I agree. I think if Lego would offer some standard town buildings they
> > would attract more girls. As well as have a happier town of minifigs. I can
> > build my own buildings, however the special parts would make it more
> > attractive.
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> This is what I told the guys in the PNLTC when I expressed my disgust at
> pink bricks. They asked me what LEGO should make to attract girls, and I
> said "Houses, libraries, schools, that sort of thing." Lately LEGO has
> focused on action action action to the exclusion of all else, and that's
> fine for young boys, but young girls tend to want stability and
> commmunity. When I was very young and first started playing with LEGO, I
> gave all the wheelsets to my brothers and I built houses (and spaceships,
> but that's another story).
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> > Please don't provide more pink themes, I find it rather insulting. I beleive
> > that it, (the pink, Scala, Belville) provides a barrier to the other sets
> > rather than providing a bridge to the other sets.
>
> Exactly. When I first saw the pink LEGO, all I could think of was
> "AHHHHHH!!!! LEGO IS GOING BARBIE!!!! YUCK!!!!!!!!!!"
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> Yeah, pretty much those exact words, as I recall. It's funny. The guys
> in the PNLTC have no problem collecting pink LEGO, but I won't touch them.
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> I think the pink is an insult to women: We can't figure out how to market
> to you, so we'll just make everything pink, then you'll love it. LEGO,
> you market to girls by creating sets that girls will find fun, by showing
> GIRLS in your commercials, by acknowledging that girls are every bit as
> creative as boys, and don't need horrible Barbie-wannabe sets to enjoy
> your product.
>
> LEGO provides plenty of sets that are perfect for building part of the
> infrastructure of a LEGO town, but only part. There are no houses, no
> stores, no libraries or schools. And I think that's a shame. They are
> ignoring a great part of what LEGO was in the past, and in the process
> cutting their audience in half.
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> -Laura Gjovaag
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| (...) Heh. With the help of the PNLTC, I'm getting over my bias. If so many MEN are willing to use pink in their constructions, I guess I don't mind it nearly as much. But when it first came out I thought it was the end of LEGO. But don't get me (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) This is what I told the guys in the PNLTC when I expressed my disgust at pink bricks. They asked me what LEGO should make to attract girls, and I said "Houses, libraries, schools, that sort of thing." Lately LEGO has focused on action action (...) (25 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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