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Re: End of Year Thoughts
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:01 GMT
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"Richie Dulin" <rdulin@mailandnews.com> writes:
> In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
> > 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?
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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.
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?
> > There is little or no intermixing with their
> > traditional LEGO bricks.
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> And my daughter doesn't mix her System with her Duplo... and my friends as a
> child didn't mix their Duplo with their System (though it wasn't called
> system then.) Duplo can mix with System, so is it a crime if it isn't?
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> I tend to keep my technic seperate from my System.
I keep my Expert Builder pieces separate, but mix my Lego Pre-School
in with my LEGOLAND pieces. (I can never keep up with these changes
in product names...)
> > I'm old enough to have LEGO memories from the early '70's. They are my best
> > memories and my most cherished.
> Which was my point. The older they get, the more cherished they become. The
> summers were hotter, the hailstorms more intense, the watermelon sweeter and
> the school holidays longer when I was five. Or at least that's what my
> cherished memories tell me, meteorological and school records would probably
> disagree (that leaves the watermelon, though ;-))
Cue "Sonata for micro-violin". Have you ever read Billy Collins' (US
Poet Laureate) poem "On Turning Ten"?
> > 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.
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> My daughter and her friends get pretty excited about LEGO products today.
Girls playing Lego? I'm glad to hear it. I hope they aren't
ostracized at school for playing with boy toys.. (sorry, I *said* that
was a rant for another day.)
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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