Subject:
|
Re: TLG investigation 1st answers
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 02:46:13 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1610 times
|
| |
|
|
Jeroen Ottens writes:
> Hi everybody, • <snip>
> Thanks (again) for your overwhelming responses. I have had over 100
> responses within 4 days and still counting...
Thanks for listening. I realize that you might not get anywhere with this back
at work, but I definitely appreciate the effort. I have been watching a bit
and decided it was time to chime in.
> To begin with the last:
> Lego develops for kids, not for adults. Kids have developed as well through
> the years. Old sets simply don't sell.
I have a question about this: if tlg repackaged and reintroduced certain sets
not as nostalgia per se, but as possible additions to existing or new themes,
wouldn't they sell, especially if the sets contained parts no longer
available? Even as a kid, I would buy one set over another just for the cool
parts found in one and not the other. How would 10-year-olds today know (other
than by checking with some older resource) that the first line of Space Police
was as old as they were? They are certainly just as good or better than space
stuff made this year.
> If you ask for better sets, you ask
> for bigger sets with smaller (unprinted) bricks for yourself.
Not necessarily. The size of a brick does have something to do with it, but
not everything, neither if it is printed. What it is has everything to do with
it. Two points:
1) If I hated bigger bricks, I wouldn't use them, but this is not the case. I
want pieces out of which I can make more versatile creations. In smaller scale
models, this cannot be achieved. But in larger models, sometimes bigger pieces
are warranted depending on the model. Generally in the minifig scale, larger
pieces make it more difficult to do this. One thing I've noticed lately is the
lack of good alternative models made from each set and those bigger pieces are
largely to blame.
2) If I hated painted/printed pieces, I would hate the 2x2 round tiles with
pizza prints, but I don't - I like them. Why? They are the only source of food
for Town minifig citizens. I'm not saying more food (though it would be cool)
or less printing, but more judicious use of printing either to the brick
itself or via decal. I hate printed bricks (i.e. pieces with printed
headlights) when I can easily get the same effect with pieces. I hate stickers
that are applied over more than one piece and almost never apply them because
if I do, I have to keep the pieces together or I lose the quality of the decal
(grrr..). In such a case I actually wouldn't mind a taller/wider kind of piece
that was 1 stud thick made to fit the decal or the decal made to fit the piece.
> My question
> is: Does Model Team fill that need (if only partial)? I mean is that a good
> direction?
> This question is more for my own curiousity and understanding, I can't
> promised feedback from the Model Team team (see above).
Model Team is good but could be much better. The theme is not nearly varied
enough, plus it needs some smaller models, not just the 1000-piece wonders.
Black Thunder is a very good current MT set. TLG could take select minifig
scale sets and Model Team-ize them. Even Bi-Wing Baron has the potential to be
impressive as an MT set.
> Bulk piece ordering/better service packs are not be commented on by me.
Whether it's out of the question, or "in the works", let me just say that
these would be welcome :)
> Rerealese of old sets. I my opinion that is a setback. It would be better
> to increase the appeal of new sets, than to rerelease old sets, but maybe
> collectors don't agree with me on that one.
I'm not a set collector per se, I merely speak as one who likes the widest
variety of parts available, and some of the older sets have good parts or
parts in colors no longer made. That is the reason why I want older sets. BUT,
having said that, if newer sets could bring back a lot of the old pieces then
I wouldn't want the old sets because I could build them. In which case, I
would buy more.
> Acknowledgement of the AFOL community. I think this the pivotal point.
> Without acknowledgement nothing will change. I will try to get that message
> through within Lego. Of course I can't promise anything. Lego is just a
> company that has to make profit and fact is that there are more kids
> playing with Lego than adults.
I'm 32 years old, and I've purchased more lego sets in the last 2 years than I
have in any prior 2 consecutive years because of the pieces, not the sets as a
whole. Apparently TLG does not consider long-time loyal customers of equal
value as new ones, but the last time I checked, one person's dollar bought
just as much as the next person's, and together they amount to twice as much.
-Tom McD.
P.S. a new monorail is long overdue.
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: TLG investigation 1st answers
|
| On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 02:46:13 GMT, Tom McDonald uttered the following profundities... (...) An MT set. Say that again. That is what a set with many large, preformed, specialised pieces is! Empty! Uninspiring, lacking in design and function. (Not (...) (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | TLG investigation 1st answers
|
| Hi everybody, Thanks (again) for your overwhelming responses. I have had over 100 responses within 4 days and still counting... A lot of questions have been asked, most of them I can't answer unfortunately. All questions regarding comments to be (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
|
164 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
