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This is my word for TLG's recent penchant for inserting random color bricks
SW sets. Here's the excerpt from the FBTB site interview:
> What exactly is behind LEGO randomly inserting colored bricks into models? • I'm referring to things like the green brick in >the Shuttle.
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> For all LEGO models, we are hoping to provide kids with a great building
experience. We have learned over the years that it >is difficult for kids to
build certain models in which there is a large number of one colored bricks.
To help make the >experience better for kids of all ages, we have inserted
certain color changes into the sets to make this easier.
I just want to say that I think this explanation is poo. If there's one
thing I've observed from looking at all the MOC's that young kids build,
it's they don't care as much about color the way adults do. Kids use
whatever brick fits the purpose. At all the Baylug meetings I've attended
(and I'm sure you guys'll agree), when the kids get down on the floor to
make stuff with all of Uncle Dan's bricks, they just grab bricks at random,
no matter what color they are.
Remember the photos of all the alternate models on the back of Classic Space
set boxes? There weren't any green or red bricks tossed in to make the
experience "easier." It's called imagination TLG, and we're pretty good at
using it!
Dave (happier now to have vented that)
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| David: (...) It is done in all kinds of sets. And it has happened for quite some time. While you are right that kids generally don't care much about the colours (neither do I for first generation models), they certainly grow more experienced and try (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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| (...) But the discussion was not about MOCs...it was about building instructions for a specific design. Personally, I am inclined to trust that the thousands of hours of research that the TLG has done over the many years has given them a solid (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) My experience as a child was just the opposite. I always had too many colors and not enough of the same colors. That made me want to buy more sets, of course...and it still does. Marketing, marketing, marketing. (...) LOL...Yeah, right. Who do (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| Wow, quite a thread from my original post. Aaaah, intelligent mature discussion, I love this group! I think what I was trying to get at was that TLG claims that the sets are easier to assemble since many of the pieces which are not the same color as (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Actually, that's not always true. I've always attempted to make my models both colour coordinated and colour symmetric. Back to when I was playing with Duplo. I've been talking to a friend about this recently and he also did this and, like me, gotr (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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| well, i usually let this theme slide on by as it shows up so often and is always the same old debate, however... this time, i would like to say for the record can you really look @ some of the MOCs out there and complain about the pieces TLC is (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space)
| | | Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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| (...) Actually, this explanation makes a lot of sense. I was recently looking at the instructions for the Millenium Falcon, which inexplicably uses a few odd-colored bricks at various points, pondering this very issue. Then I remembered building the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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| My first observation of seeding was in the Roboforce 2152 Robo Raptor. It had, I believe, a red or yellow 2x4 brick in the middle, not visible from the outside. After building it, I remember feeling that is was so cool that I knew there was that (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)
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