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Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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Thu, 6 Dec 2001 03:14:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
LEGO today is LESS sophisticated.

Why?

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.

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.

Maybe kids today are smarter? Maybe you're not making a fair comparison - at
the same piece count are 70's sets more difficult to assemble than 00's sets?

Far from the market demanding juniorized sets, the children's entertainment
market is often the leader in high tech and forward thinking.
...and making things easier to use.

Cheers

Richie



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  Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
 
(...) But ignoring Mindstorms and Technic (what little exists) the sets are less *sophisticated* from a design point of view. You may be right, the colors, pieces and themes may be wide ranging, but the technical make-up of the sets has dropped (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)  

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  Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)  

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