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Re: !! NEW DINOSAUR SETS!!
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 10 Jun 2001 09:30:38 GMT
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Shiri Dori (<GEp4vp.5xK@lugnet.com>) wrote at
04:09:25
> In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> > It's kind of heartening that people are unable to find
> > prior references to such big things--
> <snip>
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> Wait, *heartening*? Don't you mean disheartening? I think it's troublesome
> that people could miss stuff like that. Maybe we should expand the "top
> news" category a little... I mean, I think headlines like the rerelease of
> 6067 (as 10000) should stay up for a lot more than a week, it would be such
> a shame for people who were gone or something to miss a big thing like that.
Nah. No-one's going to miss it. It's going to be around for months, and
it's already on the S@H site. People might not be among the first to
know, but why is that a big deal?
But then, I don't really understand why people watch live sport, when it
would be more convenient to record it :-)
As far as expanding the 'top news': you're adding an extra editorial
decision. At the moment, it's just 'is it in?', but if you start varying
the duration, it gets more complicated. There are some psychologists who
think that we have too many choices already... :-)
Also, while it's big news for Castle heads, its only interest for
someone into Technic is that there might be some unspecified re-release
at some unspecified point in the future. Hardly big news.
> Maybe we should have a top MOC-related news and top set-related news... I
> dunno. I really think that it's really too bad that people go without
> knowing this kinda stuff.
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> > it implies that so
> > very much is going on that even "regulars" miss big releases
> > until very late--e.g., my missing the Sopwith Camel LEGO
> > sculpture set until *after* its release.
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> Right... but don't you think that's a *bad* thing?
Again, why?
The Camel is freely available. Why does it matter if you find out about
it two weeks before it's released, or two weeks after?
This isn't meant to come across as grumpy, but I genuinely don't
understand why anyone can get excited about the *timing* of these
things. Yes, they're great sets, and I was very excited when I saw them.
Even more so, now that I've built the plane. But I don't see that it
matters *when* I get excited :-)
--
Tony Priestman
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| (...) <snip> Wait, *heartening*? Don't you mean disheartening? I think it's troublesome that people could miss stuff like that. Maybe we should expand the "top news" category a little... I mean, I think headlines like the rerelease of 6067 (as (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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