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Re: This picture needs a caption
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Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:04:05 GMT
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Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
> On a side note, it's interesting that while the other pics in that idea book (
> http://w1.161.telia.com/~u16122508/ideabook/ ) all involve kids (one with a dad
> helping), this pic is definitely about AFOLs. How much marketing was there
> towards an adult audience back in the 60s and 70s? I was under the impression
> that we were a relatively new phenomenon as far as TLC was concerned.
Actually, in ye olden days, Lego tried to gain a foothold in the
architectural model market by starting to sell (Tata!) plates. Did you
ever stuble over a grey plate 8x11 (yes, eleven), Peeron part No. 728?
This plate, together with a transparent hollow "brick" of 8x11x3 (height
estimated) formed a box for extra plates and propably bricks. There have
been starter sets back then, containing bricks, plates, slopes, windows,
doors and trees, marketed towards architects to make them build the
models for their customers with Lego, and they introduced the plates as
a way to add more detail to the models.
So, once upon a time, Lego actually wanted to have AFOLs. Today it
sometimes seems to me they would like to get rid of us, though...
Yours, Christian
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| (...) visual-spatial capacity to understand architecture, don't you? Next thing you'll be wanting a job outside the home. Why don't you go and bake me some cookies while I smoke and read the paper. Don't worry your pretty little head about designing (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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