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Re: Criteria for a good toy (was RE: Fabulous Lego Drawings)
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Sun, 3 Sep 2000 05:23:24 GMT
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Bram Lambrecht <BXL34@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message
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> sheree rosenkrantz writes:
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1224
>
> My Dutch isn't excellent, so I didn't read the whole thing. However,
> bullets (or in this case a numbered list) always tends to catch the eye. • So
> here is my translation of the list of criteria for a good toy:
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=12873)
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=12872)
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> 1) It must provide limitless possibilities for play.
> 2) It must be for girls and boys equally.
> 3) It must be fun for all ages. • [AFOLs?]
> 4) Children must be able to play with it peacefully and safely.
> 5) Children must be able to play with it year round.
> 6) It must not bore quickly; it must remain absorbing for hours.
> 7) It must encourage planning, fantasy, and creativity.
> 8) The more of it you have, the more fun it must provide. [Business • side?]
> 9) There must be extra (loose) components avaiable. [Bulk • ordering?!?]
> 10) The quality must be perfect down to the tiniest details.
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> I'm not sure of the translation of #9 (and even if it is correct, it could
> very well apply to consumer affairs as well.)
> --Bram
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> Bram Lambrecht
> BXL34@po.cwru.edu
> http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/>
Thank you for the translation. Multilingual people amaze me. Babelfish
doesn't have Dutch. I found another site which claims to, but the results
were nonsensical.
I think you selected a very important passage. The criteria for a good
toy - the ideal. To acheive a goal one must first define it.
I am particularly struck by #2. It must be for girls and boys equally. I
wonder if this is still a guiding principle for TLC. My Lego loving
daughter has no girl friends who play with Lego. In the past, I wonder if
the number of girls playing with Lego ever equalled the number of boys.
Whatever the numbers might have been, it seems a certainty to me that today
the of number of girls in proportion to number of boys playing with Lego has
decreased. Maybe, hopefully, the introduction of the Harry Potter sets in
2001 can turn this around. The books seem to be equally appealling to both
girls and boys.
As a parent/consumer, I would add an 11- affordable and easy to find,
preferably in local stores.
sheree
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