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Subject:	Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Tue, 18 Jan 2000 03:33:01 GMT
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I'm fourteen. When I was nine, I had Super Nintendo, I played with action figures, I had computer games. There is no difference now, excepet that the graphics are better. I don't think a kid today cannot build a set from the 1980's. My brother hates the new LEGO junk, and only likes playing with my older sets from the early and mid-1990's. LEGO changed, for the worse. I didn't mind when they started putting in faces other than smileys (I liked it back then, but it has now goten WAY out of hand), I didn't mind BURPs when they first came in 1992. I didn't think the new windows were that bad in 1994 either. And I actually liked the change from grey to green in Town. But now they have taken it too far. I will not be buying many more new sets. LEGO has little life left in them. Adventurers sets are decent, so are Artic. TECHNIC remains a wonderful theme, but they have redesigned the whole theme to new types of pieces, though piece counts remain high and the sets do do the same things. I hate all the licenseing stuff. I don't need Star Wars LEGO or Disney LEGO. LEGO is supposed to be original. What happened LEGO? From now on, most of my LEGO purchasing will be through eBay. LEGO Direct is the only hope left.

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		Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either!
(...) I'm twelve. (...) When I was nine I had Lego, Brio, and some kind of K'nex stuff. (...) I likes the new faces, it gave the minifigs more chracter, but now the faces are just getting more and more unuasble (look at the Rock Raider faces!). (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either!
(...) I'm 28. :) (...) Actually, it turns out some of Lego's own themes (Rock Raiders, UFO, et al.) are far more juniorized and prefab and single-use than some Star Wars sets. I've managed to reuse a significant percentage of the pieces from the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either!
In lugnet.general, Mark A. Herzberg writes: [snip] (...) [snip] Well, I do (need Star Wars LEGO, that is). (Still mourning that he didn't find any Gungun subs on sale this January). -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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		Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either!
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 (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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