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Re: No way for a LEGO newbie to get up to speed? Unfair!
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Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:37:43 GMT
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I have been thinking about a similar concept recently. What about.....
<drum roll>
Technic Buckets?
I would have loved to have had a couple of silver technic beams...
Greg
Mark Tarrabain wrote:
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> You know, there doesn't really appear to be much in the way of LEGO for
> wannabe enthusiasts any more. (By the way, I'm thinking entirely on
> the Technic line here). It appears to me that every set these days
> seems to be geared towards developing a specific model (or a specific
> set of models), and while that's all fine and dandy for people who are
> too lazy to invent their own ideas, such sets usually offer far too
> limited a selection of Technic pieces to be viable as general building
> sets, which is what would probably most benefit a person who wanted to
> build with LEGO to use his or her imagination for constructing things.
> Since about 1995 or so, it seems that LEGO has been hacking and slicing
> at its Technic line and steering it away from being a universal building
> tool into a line of predesigned glueless model kits and action toys.
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> So I have to ask, if someone were to want to seriously get into creative
> LEGO Technic construction, and were starting out from scratch today,
> what choice would they have? The amount of money required to buy
> enough of the model sets to have a good enough assortment of pieces to
> be usable as a universal building set makes that avenue unviable for all
> but those who have been blessed with an abundant disposable income.
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> I'm not so much complaining about the price of LEGO as much as the lack
> of selection when it comes to Technic. There are *NO* Technic sets
> offered this year that resemble a universal building set. A single
> universal building set is the best way for a LEGO newbie to enter the
> fray of LEGO modelling because it gives him or her the greatest variety
> of pieces in a single expense. If they like it, they will probably buy
> more. If the piece selection is too limited in the person's first set,
> the only way I think they will be likely to purchase more sets in the
> future is if 1) they have *LOTS* of money and for some reason are
> compelled to want to spend all the time on things they don't know for
> sure that they really want, or 2) they didn't purchase LEGO as a
> creative construction toy in the first place, and only wanted to build
> the model that was featured on the set.
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> If the answer is 1, more power to them. However, a trend in that
> direction would render creative LEGO building in the future as a sole
> property of the wealthy. This is not particularly desireable. If the
> answer is 2, as I believe it probably is most of the time, and TLG is
> obviously interested in targetting that group, I feel dismayed that
> while trying to target a young crowd who "want it all right now", TLG
> have abandoned their original premise of LEGO being a truly robust
> construction toy.
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> > > Mark
> (hrm... in hindsight, maybe this should have gone in lugnet.dear-lego...
> but it's not like anybody from TLG actually reads these things.)
--
G. Crisp - gcrisp@mindspring.com
Isn't it odd that we celebrate the birth of Jesus by killing trees?
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