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Re: My feelings on the Mickey Mouse sets
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lugnet.fabuland
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Sun, 9 Jul 2000 05:28:07 GMT
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In lugnet.fabuland, Ben Roller writes:
> In lugnet.fabuland, Bradley Dale writes:
> > My feelings on the Mickey thing is that Lego should not make products based • on
> > other companies' ideas just to get money. They should use their own ideas,
> > they are better anyway. I don't buy Star Wars, and I won't buy this.
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> Don't forget Pooh, or McDonalds, or Amtrak (4558), or the soccer sets, or
> Shell, or every promo set they've put out.
Well, Pooh is Duplo. And I am not a Duplo builder. I'll admit, McDonalds is
good. Those Happy Meal things last year got me out of a dark age! I have no
idea what Amtrak is, and I've never gotten a Shell promo (though they don't
look bad)
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> They should stick to things that they came up with, like policemen, firemen,
> the coast guard, racing cars, construction workers, space shuttles, airplanes,
> Santa Claus, Ninjas, and Egypt.
Right, those are good subthemes.
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> Does it really matter if they call him Johnny Thunder or strike a deal and • call
> him Indiana Jones? Either way they are making sets that look like things
> that people already know about. They do everything just to make money, and
> this way they get to sell their sets to people who like Mickey Mouse but have
> never bought any Lego products.
> Ben Roller
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| (...) Amtrak is the fedrally subsidised American passenger rail company. It has the same color scheme as the metroliner, which obviously used that on purpose to make an Amtrak lookin' train. Alan (...) airplanes, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.fabuland)
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| | Re: My feelings on the Mickey Mouse sets
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| (...) Don't forget Pooh, or McDonalds, or Amtrak (4558), or the soccer sets, or Shell, or every promo set they've put out. They should stick to things that they came up with, like policemen, firemen, the coast guard, racing cars, construction (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.fabuland)
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