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thank you for a verry good comparison page, I might actualy buy a lego set
now (been buying only MB for a little over a year, not including what I get
as gifts). those new pieces will be useful, as I'm getting into mecha.
Gary
richard marchetti <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hey Y'all:
>
> This has already been partially discussed in this thread:
>
> http://news.lugnet.com/loc/au/?n=7977
>
> TLC seems to now be designing elements and whole sets around lessons • learned
> from Ritvik/Mega Bloks -- and in some respects I think they are not • learning
> the lessons very well, particularly where price, design, and ready
> availability of new elements is concerned.
>
> My observations stem from having just built the new #4793 Ogel Shark Sub.
> At 111 pcs. for $20 USD this set is NOT a very good deal. The design of • the
> set, which is awful, seems to have been driven primarily by a desire on • the
> part of TLC to sparingly distribute certain new elements in limited
> quantities per set but still be able to build a set around the paltry
> selection of elements chosen. In particular, I am annoyed with the manner
> they have designed and distributed the new *mecha-style* arm and socket
> elements. If you want to see what I am talking about, please visit the
> illustrated webpage on which I discuss the mecha element battle taking • place
> between TLC and MB:
>
> http://members.aol.com/blueofnoon4/lego/armsoket.html
>
> Even if you don't read any of my observations about the elements, I think
> the pictures speak for themselves. Just remember that the really cool
> elements are the MB ones, and that everything one needs to create an
> amazingly cool mecha (and more!) with MB's elements comes in one set of • 440
> elements for $20 USD. With TLC's designs, one would need at least 2 • copies
> of a poorly designed set achieving a 222 element count for $40 USD, and • then
> the element designs themselves present real problems for MOC mecha • building.
> BTW, it's worth noting that most of the elements one would be getting via
> TLC's offerings would provide little joy if one was needing basic plates • and
> bricks with which to build -- so the value for the money is even worse • than
> a straight up cost per element analysis reveals. Far worse.
>
> We can only assume that the marketplace must really be heating up between
> TLC and MB with what we have been observing of TLC's new set designs for
> 2002. TLC is pathetically grasping at straws in terms of vision, element
> designs, and the white elephant business practices with which it has
> burdened itself. I really don't know what to make of the fact that the
> finest construction toy company in the world is so pointedly copying it's
> weaker opponent's practices. Should we just start the deadpool now?
>
> See it for yourself...
>
> -- Hop-Frog
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