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Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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Thu, 6 Dec 2001 03:30:22 GMT
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> In lugnet.general, Richie Dulin writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
> > > LEGO today is LESS sophisticated.
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> > Why?
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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.
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 dramatically.
This theory is utterly simple to prove.
The police headquarters I had when I was a kid:
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/370
The police headquarters kids must suffer with today:
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/4611
One looks (at least reasonably) like a building. It has doors, a roof and
walls.
The other looks (at least to my stupid old eyes) like an elevator shaft
that's missing some of it's walls. And for some reason the jail isn't even
attached. Poor, shoddy, crumby, juvenile design. That is my point.
> > 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.
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> 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?
Yes, they were more difficult to assemble. That's what made them better.
My point was that kids today can handle (with ease) a vast array of
complicated electronics and information. They *can* handle putting together
simple building with walls and a roof. Take a look at those two police
headquarters noted above. Does that one from 1975 really look that hard to
build?
Regards,
Allan B.
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| (...) One has 280 pieces, one has 137 pieces. Hardly a fair comparison. And "suffer with"? I have a mental image of a child screaming "No, no, please don't make me play with it!" (...) Producing a larger building, with more play possibilities (you (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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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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