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Re: Goodbye Lego and thanks for all the bricks
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:09:38 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richard Marchetti writes:
In lugnet.general, Kevin Johnston writes:
I'm not trying to start another "mini-figures forever" flame.  Maybe the
mini-figure's era has passed.

Bite your tongue!  That's "System" right there.

"System" to me is more about an interconnected play world, with original,
open themes, than it is about the particular form of the figures.  Playmobil
has its own "system," for example.  Lego could conceivably develop a new one
based on a different figure than the mini-figure, which might (again, just
speaking conceivably here) sell better to today's kids than the mini-figure.


P.S. Lego, I LOVE many of your recent products, like the Sopwith Camel,
sculptures, and I hope you pursuer more higher-end licensed items like the
Blockade Runner.

I disagree strongly here.  While I spend more on this plastic junk most
months than the price demanded by a single Blockade Runner set.  I have to
think twice about spending so much cash on one item in one shot like that.
I'll probably pick stuff up I want from that set on the aftermarket, and I
am probably not alone -- SW stuff leaves me cold, so what I am saying is
that I may be unwilling to blow $200 USD on a parts pack.  This would mean
that TLC is counting on some kind of "trickle-up" theory of economics.
Anyway, why can't they build a castle with this much thought and equivalent
brick count?

That was my point, moreso than the licensed nature of that set-- I want to
encourage TLC to make more large, sophisticated sets.  Model Team, Castle,
whatever-- just more, please!

Kevin



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  Re: Goodbye Lego and thanks for all the bricks
 
(...) Indeed. They did it before. Ever see the figures available during the mid 1970's? They had Town sets, but no mini-fig as we think of it. And during the 80's, it wasn't called System with a logo. The boxes just had the word LEGOLAND stamped on (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: Goodbye Lego and thanks for all the bricks
 
(...) They do show some spark, but not quite enough. I have some interest in the squid vehicle, which uses some very un-lego-like elements, but I still like it because it has style up the wazoo. But after the whole Ogel's Control Center (...) (23 years ago, 11-Nov-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)

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