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Re: FOTM/LOTM (Loss of the Month) Some thoughts...
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Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:48:17 GMT
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In lugnet.western, Bryan Beckwith writes:
> Anyway, I guess the only reason I decided to post this was because it
> reminded me of how frustrated many of my fellow AFOLs make me. I absolutely
> hate seeing posts like "4 million copies of set xxxx added to my BrickBay
> store!" and I don't doubt one bit that many of those same people would have
> quickly snatched up the Fort LEGOREDO, knowing they could make a tidy profit.
This reminds me how I felt when I visit brickbay, just after seeing "no longer
available" messages under the newly introduced surplus stock of accessory
materials like garage doors and such, and sawing there are on sale at brickbay
in large quantities.
> I get tired of reading posts like "LEGO should make sets with us as their
> target audience." IMHO, no they shouldn't.
I don't agree 100% of it since although I don't want too many "Adult Lego Sets"
around, but I also don't want to see the Jr. stuff around. More precisely, I
don't care if they continue to produce Jr. sets, but I really want to see some
other sets in real town/real Lego style, that I'm too much familiar from my
childhood. I can't express my feelings when I got a chance to buy and build a
used set dated back to my childhood of which I looked tens of hours long to the
pictures in catalogs...:-)
> If I wanted to play with things
> targeted at me, I wouldn't play with LEGO. A good part of the fun I have is
> knowing that I am having just as much if not more fun with something I loved
> as a child. It's not about regaining one's childhood, it's about not
> letting go of it.
Extremely well said..:-)
> Quite frankly, what is the point of TLC re-releasing a
> set like the Guarded Inn if they just get snatched up by collectors and
> auctioners? LEGO is about building and creativity, not collecting and
> selling. (I am not saying there is anything wrong with collecting and
> selling sets, but I really get tired of people snatching up every available
> copy of sets that many of us would love to play with, not just look at.)
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> Anyway, this turned into quite a rant, so congrats if you read this far. I
> lost a good part of my focus once I started actually typing this message,
> and I'm sure I'm not being as articulate as I would like to be. That said,
> I hope this message provokes some thought about the purpose of our hobby.
>
> Bryan Beckwith
> Tired, cranky, and ready for bed.
Thanks Bryan, it was a pleasure to read..:-)
Selçuk
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| (...) Thank you.That's exactly how i feel and said so over a month ago about the whole garage doors thing.(And before anyone who doesn't know me says it's sour grapes by me of not getting any it's not as i already had a ton/60+ of varoius colors) (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.general)
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