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Catalog nostalgia
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Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:11:02 GMT
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Take a look at theese two catalog scans from BrickShelf:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1985/c85eu/index.html
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1985/c85nl/index.html
Now, compare them to todays catalogs.
While the 2000 catalog has a drawn boy with sunglasses, these catalogs have
real children in them.
There are a lot of text boxes saying how creative you can be with LEGO.
And in the later catalog, there are these minifigs saying something in dutch
and holding up bricks. I don´t know what they say, but I think it´s
something like " all bricks fit together" and "the best toy is the one you
build yourself".
Compare this to the "Destroy! Build! Transform! Collect!" texts in the 2000
catalog.
And take a look at the town and space pages...
Not only are the sets better, compare this *real landscape* with todays
computer-drawn backgrounds.
Sigh...
--Tobias
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| Yes, Lego has decided that kids nowadays prefer to destroy rather than build, and are attemping to adapt their "building toy" to this trend. Maybe eventually sets will come pre-made, but with big juniorized pieces so that sets can be destroyed (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) If you're interested in what the minifig says while holding the bricks (mainly in the BASIC section): "... tomorrow I create something different" (pag 10) "Al your other Lego parts fit together!" (pag 12) "[Kids] invent the best toys (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message news:FoE7Fp.12E@lugnet.com... (...) I can't. It hurts too much. The older catalogs are so much nicer. The sets are better, the ads aren't beating you in the face. Aaaah, the good old days. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Tobias Möller wrote in message ... (...) dutch (...) If you want to get even more depressed so a comparison of Idea books. (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| I think that the difference in the catalogs may be representative of who Lego seems to be targetting them to, and this is indicative of the market today. The older catalogs seem to me to be targetted towards parents, and are from a time not so long (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Sigh indeed. I think the 1985 and 1986 were my favorite years, when I really started collecting sets. I get too upset when I look at these now, and then I look at City Center..... GRRR!!! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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