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Subject: 
Re: What Kids really want. Not Juniorization.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:41:25 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Selçuk Göre writes:
I really can't understand why you (not only you but other people who
also said that) are so upset with current (I mean old) way of packaging.
If you just open the bags to make piles of each individual bag, instead
of a big common pile, I think you can find whatever pieces you want
during the process of building easily, at least after the first 5-10
minutes of the process. I built my UCS X-wing in a hotel room, on the
bed, and I didn't have any problems with finding proper pieces. In a
home, sitting on the carpet, it could be even easier.

Guess I'm weird that way; I'm almost insulted when I get a Town Junior set
that's pre-seperated for me (but oh well, not like I can't just dump it all
out) yet when I get a larger set I'd like some sort of sorting. Yes, you're
right, if I had room to sort out everything into piles without losing them
(my cats tend to snatch up loose pieces and bat them around) it probably
would've been faster. But your comment reminded me of something else: I
never had any problems searching for pieces with Model Team or Technic sets
before, why not? I realized it might have something to do with the
elimination of those tray inerts... they were great for sorting.

Random color "insertion" parts the thing I don't like much, too, but not
for the adverse effects on building time (I don't think this exists) but
since I prefer having variety of parts of same color instead variety of
colors of same part.
For me it's both, but yeah, I like to have lots of different pieces in 1
colour as well.

But anyway, any producer company must optimize their manufacturing and
storage capacity to maximize income, and this is *really* not bad. And I
actually don't care much if the random colored parts are not visible
form the outside, like 5571 Big Rig (I always use the same tactic since
I don't have too much of a collection). Otherwise, it's complete evil to
my eyes (i.e.. Millennium Falcon)

Selçuk

Or the green on the outside of the UCS X-Wing!

Mark W.



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  Re: What Kids really want. Not Juniorization.
 
"A. Mark Wilburn" <amwilburn@iname.com> wrote in message news:GB1B51.DzJ@lugnet.com... (...) Why be insulted? I think that separation is a good step for keeping kids' attention spans, and if they're separated it makes it a faster build for you too. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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(...) I really can't understand why you (not only you but other people who also said that) are so upset with current (I mean old) way of packaging. If you just open the bags to make piles of each individual bag, instead of a big common pile, I (...) (24 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)

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