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Re: Some disturbing news
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Sun, 16 Jan 2000 08:20:59 GMT
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But his parents would probably help him or build together with him.
My parents ( my fahter ) used to build big TECHNIC sets with me, but now I
can build them myself.
--Tobias
Tony Kilaras wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
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> > Kids of today have grown up around nintendo games and action figures
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> So did I. There have always been many alternatives to Lego. When I was
> younger, you had Star Wars, GI Joe, Atari and Matchbox cars.
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> > You give a kid of today a 5571 giant truck or an 8880 supercar and say • here
> are
> > the instructions and here are the bits. see if you can put it together. do • you
> > think that we would get a perfect 5571 or 8880? nope because the kid would • stop
> > and go play nintendo 64 or playstation or play with his new luke skywalker • action
> > figure or whatever.
> > the kids of thday have short attention spans and TLG knows
> > this. think about this:
> > if a kid got a 5571 for christmas and got bored with it rarther quickly, • which
> > kids might do then what is the kid going to do? they are going to complain • to
> > their parents, their parents will take the 5571 back and get a 6494 all in • one
> > police/fire station crappy juionerised set that the kid will be able to • put
> > together before they loose interest in it and then they can spend all day • driving
> > the fire truck or flying the police helicopter around the house. can you • pick
> up a
> > 8480 space shuttle and fly it around the house making wooshing noises? no, • i
> > thought not.
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> I strongly disagree. So then I take it that you think juniorization is
> necessary?
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> The things that compete for kids time and attention today are the same ones
> that have been around for at least 20 years. Yet, only recently has lego
> started to do badly. Kids are not stupid. They see juniorization for what • it
> is.
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| (...) So did I. There have always been many alternatives to Lego. When I was younger, you had Star Wars, GI Joe, Atari and Matchbox cars. (...) are (...) stop (...) action (...) driving (...) up a (...) I strongly disagree. So then I take it that (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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