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Subject: 
Re: TLG and "Seeding"
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lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:48:36 GMT
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Jason J. Railton (<GA16vs.2CB@lugnet.com>) wrote at
11:35:52

> My next point, is have you noticed that Lego are starting to do this with
> individual sets?  Look at any current minifig theme set, and you'll find
> little duplication of elements in different colours.  It's rare you'll find
> bricks or plates of the same size in two different colours.  This again
> makes it less likely for a young builder to make mistakes.  It must be
> pretty hard to design a set that can have an inventory like this.


This is quite an interesting point, and perhaps another explanation for
the proliferation of POOPs. If you've already used a black 2x4, and you
need a stack of yellow ones, make the yellow stack into a different
part.

Dunno if this stacks up (!) in practice, as I don't own any of these
sets. Nice theory, though.
--
Tony Priestman



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  Re: TLG and "Seeding"
 
(...) I agree with the explanation too. Have you noticed how a lot of kids jumped on the K'nex system, but not Lego's own Znap? The big difference was that K'nex colour-coded the function of each element. There were no duplications of the same piece (...) (26 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)

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