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Re: Jeroen, Please read this. You might be surprised by it.
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:04:58 GMT
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Jeroen Ottens writes:
> 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 given to themes other than Lego
> Technic have been ignored I'm afraid. I simply don't have the time to hunt
> down the different people involved, give them your comment, recieve their
> reaction, etc. For comments on Technic Sets I have given some comments
> through, but not all of them.
> The point is: This is an investigation. My personal wish about the outcome
> (biased by the fact that I am an AFOL) is not hard to guess I suppose. The
> best thing would be that this investigation would lead to some real
> communication instead of one person filtering messages. So I will strive
> for that.
>
> So far I have summarized your reactions in a couple of categories:
> - Acknowledgement of the AFOL-community by the Lego group
> - Rereleases of old sets
> - Bulk piece ordering and/or better service packs
> - Better set designs by Lego
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> 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. If you ask for better sets, you ask
> for bigger sets with smaller (unprinted) bricks for yourself. 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).
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> Bulk piece ordering/better service packs are not be commented on by me.
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> 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.
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> 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. That is true, but at 13 years, I am still
pretty much a kid, and I would like to see old sets brought back, and bulk
orders made available. I mean, I know lots of kids who would love the old sets
brought back, and bulk ordering. If you think that kids would rather have
flashy sets with tons of special peices, you're very wrong. I'll put it simply:
The design of the new sets kinda sucks.
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> If anyone has comments about these statements, please feel free to respond.
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> Happy building
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> Jeroen Ottens
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> PM (Post Mailum) I have posted this message only at lugnet.general It seems
> that this newsgroup is the most active. Maybe Todd wants a separate
> newsgroup if this not appropriate?
> PPM I have scanned the pictures of my tomcat (2Meg) if anyone wants to see
> them, mail me at
> ottens@get2net.dk
> PPPM If anyone can offer me some webspace and HTML-code for putting the
> pictures on the internet...
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