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Re: my biggest beef with the new product is...
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Date: 
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:12:40 GMT
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"Fredrik Glöckner" <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message
news:qrdd71s8tke.fsf@eos.uio.no...

/snipped some good stuff

> As a child, I loved every new specialized element I could get my hands
> on.  The kid in the street with the most specialized elements was the
> coolest, no doubt about it.  I see no reason why kids today shouldn't
> feel the same about them.  Perhaps sets with lots of single use
> specialized elements sell really well?  Perhaps that is why we see
> them around all the time?

Agree, I still remember the feeling when the new minifig was introduced, and
not to forget the Technic sets.
(almost forgot the walkie-talkie, spacewings, new trans-colors and the
wonderful new steep slopes in the "fireboat" or the yellow castle.)

I loved the new pieces then, today I don´t..

Maybe it´s me not having full control over every single element that makes
me also agree with The Hop-Frog man...



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  Re: my biggest beef with the new product is...
 
(...) I just wanted to make one more comment about this issue. From time to time, I buy some SYSTEM sets myself for the parts included. But I'm reluctant to buy them because I get these heaps of minifigs included that I have no use for. They fill up (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)

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