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Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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Thu, 6 Dec 2001 02:18:34 GMT
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> In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> > Does the market realy want junorization?
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> Even if I do not like the answer, I think it is:
> "Yes, market demands junorized sets"
Which market exactly would that be?
Let's take a look at things *for kids* the way they are now, compared to the
way they were when I was growing up as a pre-teen in the late 70's.
Movies today are MORE sophisticated.
Books today are MORE sophisticated.
Video games today are MORE sophisticated.
Computers today are MORE sophisticated.
LEGO today is LESS sophisticated.
Why?
Is LEGO *that* much harder for kids to grasp than the operation of a
computer? When I was 10 years old, home computers had 5k of usable memory
and programs were loaded off a cassette tape. My LEGO sets had multi-page
instructions and almost NO juniorized pieces.
Today home computers routinely ship with 256 MEG of memory and programs are
downloaded off the Internet. And yet LEGO sets today are rarely more than
just a handful of specialized pieces and kids sometimes don't even need to
use the instructions to assemble them.
Far from the market demanding juniorized sets, the children's entertainment
market is often the leader in high tech and forward thinking. Too bad the
LEGO company is missing the boat.
Regards,
Allan B.
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| (...) No way! Even if you ignore Mindstorms and Technic, there is a wider range of parts available in a wider range of colours across a wider range of sets in a wider range of themes. (...) Maybe kids today are smarter? Maybe you're not making a (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| "Allan Bedford" <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@...vista.net> wrote in message news:GnwH2y.HHF@lugnet.com... (...) Which movies? It seems to me that today movies have more special effects but that is not sophistication. (...) Let's take a look at the adventure (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) how so? should i remind you of the "Mummy Returns?" yeah you see stuff Fight Club and the Truman Show everynow and then, but mindless bs still dominates the screens. (...) umm.. which books? as far as ive noticed, and i think scholarship will (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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