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Re: Lego acquires new license
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:02:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Matt Hein writes:
> Think about the Star Wars sets in a sense. Alone, normal models by LucasFilm
> took a long time and plenty of glue to put together, and you weren't
> guaranteed good results.
The difference is LucasFilm don't sell models or toys themselve. They just
licence their design to Hasbro and LEGO. Bandai owns Gundam and sell their own
toys and models.
> And, the cheap imitation models made by other
> companies didn't even compare to the Lego ones. They had double versatility,
> and brought profits for both Lego and LucasFilm. The same would probably go
> for Bandai, Join with Lego, and the models could be used both ways, you
> could take them apart, and make your own version, but with the Gundam
> models, I don't think you can do that.
Actually most serious model makers modify their Gundam models. It take a lot
of modeling skill but if you enter any unmodified model into competitions you
will never win. What Bandai have done with their model they made them very
easy to build for beginners. Bandai basically covered all age groups with
their toy lines and models.
I would love to see it happens, but given the high violence content in Gundam
shows, and some high number of nude scenes in some of them like Turn-A, I
really doubt LEGO would touch it in the next ten years.
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| (...) Even so, I'm sure if Lego were to license Gundam models, trhey would be in the same sense of star wars sets. This isn't really an issue of licensing here, but even though LucasFilm license out their models, that makes it really no different (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Lego acquires new license
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| (...) Even so, I'm sure if Lego were to license Gundam models, trhey would be in the same sense of star wars sets. This isn't really an issue of licensing here, but even though LucasFilm license out their models, that makes it really no different (...) (23 years ago, 2-Apr-02, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Think about the Star Wars sets in a sense. Alone, normal models by LucasFilm took a long time and plenty of glue to put together, and you weren't guaranteed good results. And, the cheap imitation models made by other companies didn't even (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.general)
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