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Re: End of Year Thoughts
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Thu, 29 Nov 2001 05:18:27 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin writes:
> In lugnet.general, Aaron Gershon writes:
> > [snip]Jack Stone is a joke [snip].
> Indeed it is - to most of us, but I know several 3-4 year olds who love it
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?
> (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 can browse the catalog that comes with it and drool
> over the sets for other ages... and ask for a LEGO trainset for Christmas
> and so on.
If they read the instructions at all. From what I've heard from some
parents, the Bionicle 'stuff' is so simplistic the kids often don't even
need the instructions to assemble them. And once assembled, I've also heard
that they don't take them apart, other than to build hybrid Bionicles, with
other Bionicle parts. There is little or no intermixing with their
traditional LEGO bricks.
> > I still don't get that 'wow' feeling when had my first look at
> > catalog from the 80's until the mid '90's.
> Don't forget that you're a bit older now, and you may find that other
> memories from the 80's and mid '90s seem a bit more exciting now as well ;-).
I'm old enough to have LEGO memories from the early '70's. They are my best
memories and my most cherished. I doubt that if I ever have kids they will
have the same warm fuzzy feeling about the junk the company is turning out
these days. If things get any worse... we will play with my collection of
bricks and won't be buying any new sets.
What the company has to remember is that parents don't *have* to buy these
products. But shouldn't they *want* to? Shouldn't they feel good about
spending their money on LEGO products, like parents 25 years ago did?
Regards,
Allan B.
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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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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