 | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Markham Carroll
| | | | "Matt Hein" <Pyrokid17@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H0L43p.B6F@lugnet.com... (...) Sadly, LEGO greatness has been reduced to a company on SELL OUTS! SELL OUTS! SELL OUTS! SELL OUTS! SELL OUTS! SELL OUTS! Please excuse me, I need to cry in a (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Matt Hein
| | | | | (...) Guess that's right. TLC has been doing a lot of licensing and bandwagonning lately, and I just can't see why. Yeah, It's cool to see a few new SW and HP sets, but don't you think it's more than enough when they initiate a seven year contract (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Allan Portillo
| | | | | | That's it, I can't take no more of this crap lego is releasing and calling sets. If these sets are so great why are they discontinued so soon and why are they re-releasing old sets, the ones which were good. Lego has never had to follow fads. And as (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Matt Hein
| | | | | | | (...) Just the point I wanted to get across for themes like LOM, Town Jr sets, and (hushed tone) Galidor. These don't even deserve to be called lego, and rightfully so. Where has an *actual* castle or space theme gone? (...) Well, they do (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Rick Hallman
| | | | | | | | (...) I cna understand how Galidor might bea little odd from lego, but some Town Jr. sets, LOM, even Jack Stone has great parts. Lego's idea is not only build our sets, but knock our socks off by building something great with *our* parts (...) I do (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Matt Hein
| | | | | | | | | | (...) I was talking in reference specifically Jack Stone and Galidor. It's amazing when I actually see something cool built with the parts aforementioned, but that's a rare reality. (...) Hmm...It's a shame some people never really saw something in (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —John Morgan
| | | | | | | | | In lugnet.general, Rick Hallman writes: doesn't mean it's bad. (...) I strongly disagree. Historical themes are of great interest to kids, especially imaginative ones that would be interested in Lego bricks in the first place. Furthermore, you can (...) (22 years ago, 12-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Bradley Dale
| | | | | | | | (...) Matt, why do you hate Life On Mars? (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Michael Hassall
| | | | | | | (...) Mega blocks did somthing with military legends and they sold loads, heck i bought one, the bigest set was a huge sub about 2ft high and 6ft wide with working guns and light up bits and if that can sell hundreds of copys why notfamous european (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.town)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Aaron West
| | | | | (...) company credo states that they will never base their product of violent war-like, gun toting toys. Wait a minute!! All those Castle, Pirate, Western and Star Wars sets are military and have weapons of personal or mass destruction. Oh well, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Matt Hein
| | | | | (...) Heh, that's what I was thinking. It's kind of ironic that they would go against their own policy and market toys that in their creed 'advocate personal or mass destruction'. But that's good isn't it? There should at least be some sense of (...) (22 years ago, 11-Aug-02, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Say it ain't so... —Gregory J. Overkamp
| | | | | (...) Fpr those of us that veiwed the transcripts of Brickfest 2002 or perhaps those lucky enough to attend, the question regarding whether lego would produce a military set garnered a large no reaction from the crowd. Now this was Lego Direct the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Aug-02, to lugnet.general)
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