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Re: Expert Builder website - Great response results in first update
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Mon, 7 Jan 2002 23:28:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Wilson writes:
> Allan Bedford wrote in message ...
> > I was playing entirely fair, according to the mandate of my site. Expert
> > Builder is not LUGNET, different rules apply.
> >
> > The reviews on Expert Builder are *meant* to be provocative and not
> > necessarily kind. I take it from your comments that you're not comfortable
> > with these types of reviews, and that's o.k. That's why those comments • were
> > posted there and not here. I had begun to feel in recent weeks that I was
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> Nobody minds a provocative and not necessarily kind review. There are enough
> of them posted on lugnet.reviews to make that obvious. Nobody minds you
> objecting to Jack Stone - many of us agree with you, me included.
>
> What Richie is objecting to, and I agree with him, is that you "review" a
> set without actually owning or building it, and make statements in the
> review which are plain wrong. That's not a review. You really should state
> on the page that you are going by the box picture, not real experience with
> the set.
I see your point. And I'll give it consideration. But as mentioned, it's a
different site, with different rules than LUGNET. I do appreciate your
comments though.
If you take a look at some of the other products I've reviewed so far, you
can actually see what I'm up to. I'm putting some of the worst of the new
up against some of the best of the old. It's a bit extreme perhaps, but
then it's also part of the mandate of the site. The site is there to draw
attention to current design flaws in any way possible.
Having said that though, I gave an excellent review of the Snow Speeder and
intend to do the same to the T-Fighter/X-Wing combo set. Both of these are
relatively 'new' sets. And for the record, I own 2 copies of each set. I
will buy what I feel meets the high design standards of the LEGO company.
Those sets that tarnish that standard will be shamed without mercy. :)
As well, I think you'll find that as you read my own letters to the company,
or review some of my postings on LUGNET, you'll find that I don't always
just gripe. I often present alternative suggestions or solutions for ways
the company can improve their products and thus their own 'brand' if they so
desire. I present this simply as free information that the company can
decide to use or not, as they see fit. I am not a LEGO hater.... I'm a LEGO
fan who's frustrated.
> Even from looking at the box pic you can see those 2x2 columns have vertical
> slots... if they'd fit garage doors, for example, (which they should if they
> fit other standard sliding pieces like portcullises), that would be great,
> I'd love garage door holders which are not red or blue!
I can only go by my gut instinct. And it tells me that these just don't jive
with other LEGO design principles. I can't state enough.... this is just my
opinion. I encourage anyone who wants to post kind comments about these
pieces to do so on LUGNET, in whatever group might be appropriate.
I am operating under the direction that my 'Letters to LEGO' come from the
average consumer, not the average AFOL. While an AFOL might have other
information upon which to base their decision, the average consumer often
has only the box to go by. In this case the box, the catalog pictures and
the price all work against this set receiving favorable reviews.
In thinking about my reply on my way home from work tonight I thought of a
couple of interesting notes to add to this discussion:
1) I gave an equally bad review to the Final Duel set, but Richie didn't
mind because he agreed with me. Turns out I haven't bought that set either.
I thought that was funny. :)
2) I have posted (on LUGNET) equally, if not more scathing, comments about
the Jack Stone sets. In response to those comments no one has ever asked if
I'd actually bought them or not.
3) The review on my site was intended to generate a reaction. Any kind of
reaction. So long as it drew attention to Jack and his shortcomings. I
think it worked very well at achieving its goal.
Regards,
Allan B.
- The Expert Builder website
- http://www.apotome.com/builder/index.htm
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