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Re: New 'Colony 2030' Theme< Warning Speculative!!>
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lugnet.general, lugnet.space
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:59:56 GMT
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In article <G7F661.27o@lugnet.com>, Greg Majewski <citrusx__@yahoo.com> wrote:
> She is human. And not only does she have blonde hair, her face looks to be
> very usable for other things because it doesn't have any microphones or hair
> pre-printed on!
Aww, dangit. I was getting really into this, but that comment about
pre-printed microphones got me to where I can no longer suspend my
disbelief. :)
I think something that'd be really cool would be a return to classic-dom--
space men wearing the nice classic space logo on their monochromatic uniforms,
with generic smileys, but go ahead and use the new-style helmet (since I
suspect Lego doesn't even make the old one anymore...) and accoutrements.
Neo-classic-Castle could also work, as could Town and Pirates.
And I think the trick to how you sell 'em is: Make 'em "freestyle" buckets.
This nets the best of all possible worlds: You don't have to worry
that a twenty-year-old Classic Castle set doesn't have the frob-the-greeblie
appeal that the new stuff with hinges and springs and articulated catapults
do, because they're freestyle-ish buckets. Moving to the more modern versions
of the same parts gets people, for example, classic Spacemen without
destroying the value of the old-style classic Spacemen.
And I suspect you could sell these buckets to kids, not just AFOLs, which
is a benefit re-releasing old sets doesn't have.
Okay, so now I'm getting _really_ out there. You started it with your
no-preprinted-microphones comment, though!
-JDF
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J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
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