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Subject: 
ta ta Jack Stone? (Re: Perhaps Lugnet can grow into something better? was: I miss the old Lugnet)
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:12:52 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
In lugnet.general, Joel Kuester writes:

They seem to be cooling off on that stuff, and they have an amazing classic
line running, with more and more high-end master level sets.  I think they
know what they did wrong, and while Jack Stone may suck *really* hard, I
doubt we'll have to suffer its presence long.

The fact that Jack Stone may be retired soon isn't all that comforting.

Is there any basis for this, or is it just speculation?

What
I want to know is who was the person that gave the go ahead in the first
place for this series?  I'm serious, I'd really like to know.  This series
clearly looks more like Megablocks than anything LEGO represents.

The current series actually makes quite a good toy. I think the play value
is quite high. I'm just sorry that we largely have Jack Stone at the expense
of town.

Ultimately, Jack Stone may be what the market wants - Lego would be fools
not to meet that demand(?).

Scott A


Can't
anyone else see the resemblance of the Jack Stone minifigs to those that
Megablocks produces?




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  Re: ta ta Jack Stone? (Re: Perhaps Lugnet can grow into something better? was: I miss the old Lugnet)
 
(...) I think this was just wishful thinking. :) I know that this is all I want for Christmas. (...) It might make a good toy, but I think it makes a poor LEGO series. Just my opinion; not based on any facts. (...) I think this is the biggest (...) (23 years ago, 7-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Perhaps Lugnet can grow into something better? was: I miss the old Lugnet
 
(...) I think the main reason that some of it is so negative (and I'm guilty of that) is that some of the products are plain and simple crap. I've made this analogy before, but I'll make it again. Not telling the LEGO company how bad some of their (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)  

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