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Re: LEGO system of play... is all about telling stories??
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Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:55:00 GMT
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I totally agree that Lego is about imagination - building whatever you can
dream.  If the entire "story" is prepackaged that can inhibit imagination.
The exception is if the story is sufficiently vague as to be more of a
starting point for creativity than an end.  To me, the "Bill and Mary" Idea
Book was the ultimate starting point.  In a sense, it provided a story, but
that story was so open ended that the creative possibilities were endless.

If Lego provides a story as a beginning, I'm all for it.  If Lego provides a
story as an end, I can not support that.  IMHO, recently, we have seen more
of the latter and less (if not none) of the former.  Bionicle seems to be
the epitomy of the latter (this robot is name "X" and he does "Y"...).

Tim



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(...) Hear hear! I wholeheartedly agree. The sets I had as a child had great 'themes' perhaps... but no real stories that I remember drawing directly from the sets. I didn't need them. The stories came from my head and were applied to the wonderful (...) (23 years ago, 25-Oct-01, to lugnet.general)

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