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Re: Catalog nostalgia
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 15 Jan 2000 23:37:05 GMT
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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 easily.
--
Paul Davidson
Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message
news:FoE7Fp.12E@lugnet.com...
> Take a look at theese two catalog scans from BrickShelf:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1985/c85eu/index.html
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1985/c85nl/index.html
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> 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.
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> Sigh...
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> --Tobias
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