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| | | Is Lego going in the right direction? I don't know. I like the Star Wars and Harry Potter themes. Seems like there will be no new Arctic stuff. Is Adventurers dead? Will we see more of LoM?; doubt it. I don't get Bionicle but I guess many people (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | (...) Indeed it is - to most of us, but I know several 3-4 year olds who love it (although possibly not more than any other police truck/fire truck toy, with a poseably action figure and some pull it apart and put it together functionality) and they (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | | (...) And apparently Bionicle is selling like crazy. But does that make it right for the company to abandon its sense of reason and pursue only fad toys? (...) If they read the instructions at all. From what I've heard from some parents, the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | When I go back into the stores I'm just going to ask the parents what they think. Beats helping them with Bionicle. (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Jeromy Irvine
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| | | | | | | (...) If you think it's bad that kids don't mix the Bionicle parts in with the rest of their LEGO collection, you'll just love this: I asked an 8-year-old kid that I know what his favorite toys were. His answer: "LEGO, G.I. Joe, and Bionicle." He (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Richie Dulin
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| | | | | | (...) Abandon it's sense of reason to sell something that is "selling like crazy", they are a toymaker not some benevolent institution. (...) I could assemble may 651 tow truck set without instructions in 1972... clearly that was simplistic and of (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | | (...) It's risky. bit like day trading - when you're hot, you're hot, but when things aren't going so well, you can be ruined easily. What if Lego plowed millions into a new fad toy that never went anywhere? (...) I keep my Expert Builder pieces (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | | | (...) Heehee. Interesting POV. And perhaps I will be there one day too. Although currently, I am not one extreme or the other. I'd like to see some focus, yet not so much so that we only have basic bricks in five colors either. I like having Themes (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | | (...) Perhaps I should clarify. I don't mean to suggest that they stop selling Bionicle. But rather that they not drop other core lines and design values for the sake of jumping on a fad product. The problem becomes... what happens when they follow (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | "Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> skrev i meddelandet news:GnLEz9.FG2@lugnet.com... (...) Maybe because 20+ years ago, the Space Race was still Big News (OK, maybe 20+++ years ago), kids only had 2 TV channels to watch, no home (...) (23 years ago, 30-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | | (...) I guess I should clarify. If you look at the three things I mentioned: 1) Strong theme 2) Consistent colors 3) Incredible design You'll note that they don't specifically relate to the Classic Space theme itself. The question wasn't, "why can't (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Benjamin Medinets
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| | | | | | | <snip> (...) for me, it was just over 2 years ago, I was doing good fighting urges to go back to collecting the lego, avoiding the toy stores, trying hard not to look in the toy advertizements. Then I made the mistake of going into a toy store, and (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | "Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> skrev i meddelandet news:Gnn8E2.Cvq@lugnet.com... (...) I don't see any irony in that, BlockCAD is only a substitute for The Real Thing, and it _does_ have it's limitations. I'm using it to relax (...) (23 years ago, 1-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Erik Olson
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| | | | | What Richie said. Jack Stone is not aimed at us, it's aimed at the crowd they made Town Jr. for. Now if they would give us back our Town Sr... (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | | (...) Or.... LEGO could just aim higher. Kids today are smarter than we were 25 years ago. We used to play with steel tipped lawn darts! :) Raise the bar and kids will meet it. It's not a terribly complicated concept. There's no need for Town Jr. or (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Erik Olson
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| | | | | | | You're right. At least I think so. But with all their Focus Groups saying otherwise, for Lego it would seem a terrible risk! (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Benjamin Medinets
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| | | | | | (...) I heartedly agree. Jack Stone and Creator lines were for younger generation. If I were them, I would have lumped both of them together, and only had one line, and subthemes for both of them....maybe that was there primary goals when they (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: End of Year Thoughts —Scott Arthur
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| | | | (...) HP is ~OK~. Some of the SW sets were v. good (x-wing, snowspeeder, a-wing etc etc). Others were quite dull (any pod set, the technic CP30 and Stormtropper, and the Gungan Sub) (...) We have some of the smaller sets, these are quite good. We (...) (23 years ago, 29-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)
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