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Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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lugnet.general
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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.
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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