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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 04:19:49 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford writes:
> 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.
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> 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.
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!"
> 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.
Producing a larger building, with more play possibilities (you can put the
figs in the cars and in the buildings!), with fewer pieces.
> 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?
No, it could probably be built without the instructions.
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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| (...) You reinforced my point. One has lots of basic bricks with which to build *other* things after you've built the main model. With the Jack Stone pieces you can build.... um... I'm not sure what else you can build. The fact that today's sets (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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