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Re: Question: Does the market realy want junorization?
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Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:30:09 GMT
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> Movies today are MORE sophisticated.
how so? should i remind you of the "Mummy Returns?" yeah you see stuff Fight
Club and the Truman Show everynow and then, but mindless bs still dominates the
screens.
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> Books today are MORE sophisticated.
umm.. which books? as far as ive noticed, and i think scholarship will back me
up (_cultural amnesia_ by s.bertman), the reading level of most americans (at
least, i dunno about other countries) has DECREASED within the last few
decades.. perhaps the plots are more detailed, but vocabulary and sentence
complexity is steadily decreasing.
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> Video games today are MORE sophisticated.
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> Computers today are MORE sophisticated.
technologically speaking, but i think most games that requires actual thinking
and puzzle solving to be kinda rare.. but this is mostly irrelevant.
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> LEGO today is LESS sophisticated.
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> Why?
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> Is LEGO *that* much harder for kids to grasp than the operation of a
> computer? When I was 10 years old, home computers had 5k of usable memory
> and programs were loaded off a cassette tape. My LEGO sets had multi-page
> instructions and almost NO juniorized pieces.
apples and oranges. put in a N64 and you play IMMEADIATELY. open a lego
package and you build for however long and then you play. (or at least thats
how it is seen now) juniorization is lego's attempt to get kids playing
faster. that and video games, tv, and other such ELECTRONIC stuff lights up,
glows, makes noise.. legos are silent and comparatively dull.
i wonder how jigsaw puzzles are doing as compared to the eighties? or other
building block toys, like wooden ones and stuff (ie. lincoln logs). walk
through TRU and see how many toys are needlessly electronic, i suspect in an
effort to keep up with kids who need more and more to keep them interested.
in the N64 game perfect dark you can actually shoot someone, see them fall
realistically to the floor with the bloodstain on the wall behind them. there
is nothing lego can do to compete with that type of excitement and reality.
i think kids, and society in general, is losing touch with its imagination and
creativity.
-lenny
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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