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Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either!
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:14:55 GMT
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Last year while I was in the Lego aisle in Wal-Mart, I overheard this
conversation between a mother and her son:
Mother: (holding 1999 Spaceport set) "How about this one?"
Boy: (Takes box and looks at it, irritation evident in voice) "Nah,
it's got all these big pieces, you can't _build_ anything with 'em."
I didn't see what they left with, if anything, but I think the sentiment
was clear. Children don't like juniorization any more than AFOLs do.
--Colin
Tobias Möller wrote:
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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
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> Tony Kilaras wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> >
> > > Kids of today have grown up around nintendo games and action figures
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > I strongly disagree. So then I take it that you think juniorization is
> > necessary?
> >
> > 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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