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Re: Is LEGO killing off the very concept of a Theme?
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Date: 
Wed, 4 Oct 2000 18:09:27 GMT
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TOBIAS.MOLLER@TELIA.COMspamcake
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I agree with you. Although I never bought any castle sets (I'm sad for
that today) I feel it's sad that themes disappear.

Besides that, it's the juniorisation thing, but it has been disscussed
1000+ time so I won't start another disscussion again.

My dream would be if LEGO suddenly started making sets the way they used
to -imagine the feeling of walking into your toystore, and find the LEGO
shelves crammed full of new Classic Space-spaceships!

--Tobias

Bradley Dale wrote:
> 
> I've noticed some disturbing trends.
> 
> 1.  Theme logos are no longer used- the old Castle flag, the red & white TOWN
> roadsign, the word SPACE in white against a starry background.  Very familiar
> logos I'd like to see brought back.  Now we just have subtheme logos, and a lot
> of them.
> 2.  Many favourite Themes have been killed off already- Pirates, Western,
> Aquanauts, and Space are history.  Star Wars (new), Adventurers (new), Town,
> Castle and Trains are the only ones left.  The fate of Underground is uncertain
> at this point, but it won't last to 2004.
> 3.  Themes will often feature only a single subtheme at a time.  New subthemes
> seem to requrie the discontinuation of old ones.  There is very little overlap
> between figures in different subthemes, and the theme lack a sense of unity.
> 4.  Subthemes that are switched annually and run for very brief periods of
> time, making the theme look worse as a whole.  I hate this.  Why can't we have
> a Green Ninja Fortress in 2000?
> 5.  Box changes that seem out of the theme.  A Knights Kingdom box doesn't look
> like a Castle box, and that is just wrong.
> 
> Are we going to have only subthemes in the new century?



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(...) My dream would be for Lego to re-relase some of it's old sets from the 1980's and early 90's. Even if they were only available by mial-order I'm sure many people would be interested. Dominik (26 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)

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I've noticed some disturbing trends. 1. Theme logos are no longer used- the old Castle flag, the red & white TOWN roadsign, the word SPACE in white against a starry background. Very familiar logos I'd like to see brought back. Now we just have (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-00, to lugnet.general) ! 

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