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Re: Beating a dead horse...
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 7 Nov 2000 17:38:05 GMT
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Matt Brooks wrote:
> As far as the "NEW" Statue of Liberty color is concerned, I think we
> should call it whatever Lego ends up calling it when they more widely
> produce the color (which appears to be showing up in Life on Mars
> already, right?). It amazes me how many posts have been sent up about
> naming this color. I downloaded 117 new headers in this group this
> morning at work, after two days away, and over 50% of them had to with
> the "new color."
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> The majority of the remainder had to do with Juniorization and the fact
> that LEGO is going downhill, has been going downhill for years, and will
> never get out of this landslide downhill slope because of reason X, Y
> and Z. I've tended to stay out of the forefront of the argu-I mean
> discussions regarding company policy, and Juniorization and the like,
> because I've wanted to get a feel for how people discuss topics here on
> LugNet and what they truly consider important (whether it is actual
> discussion and suggestions for fixing things, or just to vent.) I'm glad
> to find that most people want to discuss and make suggestions on how to
> fix things from the viewpoint of a consumer of the Lego companies
> products, but I'm still a bit sad to see how much complaining goes on
> over each and every little unsubstantiated thing.
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> Take, for instance, this new 2001 catalogue coming out of Germany. The
> prophets of doom are already de-crying the fall of Lego, and people are
> actually thinking of switching to a new hobby because of a couple of
> pictures posted on the internet, of what is obviously not a complete
> 2001 catalogue? (Harry Potter's supposed to be out in 2001, right?
> Where's the pictures for that line?) It just makes me laugh, because
> I've seen the same thing happen in the past with the Magic the Gathering
> card game.
>
> Every time a new expansion was released by Wizards of the Coast, the
> newsgroups were alive and abuzz declaring that this was the end. The end
> of Magic, the end of casual play, the end of this, the end of that, yet
> now, even five years later, WOTC is still cranking out expansions like
> mad, and organized/tournament play is going strong, and new life is
> being breathed into the product at every turn. If a company that was
> started in the early 80's hasn't sunk (going against countless HOPELESS
> predictions made time and time again) yet, what makes anyone here think
> that a company started in 1932 is going to just slowly slip away through
> Juniorization?
>
> As far as new parts and less and less general pieces coming out of the
> company now, have any of you stopped to think for just a moment about
> the HUGE variety of parts and pieces already out there? There's myriad
> places to go to find the pieces and parts you want. Why does it HAVE to
> come from Lego. Why does Lego have to rerelease any of their older sets
> that have been discontinued for whatever irrelevant reason? And WHY,
> with all the talent and and skills showcased on LugNet EVERY day, do we
> even need Lego to design new sets for us? The work done by any number of
> the people I've seen here on LugNet far outweighs sets cranked out by
> Lego in recent years, let alone the late 80's and early 90's!
>
> What I'm saying, is we, as AFOL's, and LugNetters, should spend more of
> our efforts on building with what we have, and enjoying the toy that
> brought all of us together, rather than wasting our energies on
> bemoaning the fact that Lego isn't giving us exactly what we want, right
> at this moment. And to that end, I'm going to EBay to find some more
> BURP's.
>
> Matt Brooks
Well said Matt. You were very blunt, but made perfect sense. If people
base their entire future as AFOL's on a single catalog, then they don't
deserve to be AFOL's. And as far as building goes..... use your
imagination!!!! Or go to the library and get a book on Trains, Space,
Architecture, etc, and build something new! Don't expect TLC to spoon feed
you designs for LEGO creations. After all we are not Lemmings!
As for the Verdigris discussion, I was one of the originators of that
discussion, but it kept going around in circles. Let's see what
nomenclature TLC uses. Now how about dark pink.... I like the sound of
"Magenta" for dark pink...... :-)
Gary Istok
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