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Re: Definitive list of LEGO Themes needed
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:20:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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It’s starting to look like there’s no “definitive” listing, so time to get
creative. Rather than have a very detailed 500-entry list that nobody would
use, we’ll probably end up coming up with a 30-50 entry list, which should be
plenty granular for this project.
Thanks for the recommendations, everyone. If anyone has any other resources,
please LMK.
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When I go to news.lugnet.com, I see exactly such a list, right under the
dividing line at the top. Adventurers, Aquazone, Basic, Belville, all the way
up to Znap. I figure, these categories have been used here for a few years and
have worked well enough (or have been revised where they weren’t working,
right?). Might as well use them at least as a starting point.
I don’t think it’s important to match “official” LEGO themes, even where such
exist. What’s important here is to have a good fit for the areas of interest
that people have. If (for example) you’re really interested in only one subset
of Space stuff but no other Space stuff, well -- set the theme to Space and do a
search. No big whup. If it really offends you, try to find a few dozen others
who feel the same way, and lobby for a change to the list next year. But
initially, we should err on the side of fewer choices rather than too many.
One other idea, though... we could consider separating the aspect of “what sort
of pieces did you build with” from “what sort of genre is it in.” Something
like this:
Medium: System - Brick, System - Technic, Duplo, Quatro, Znap
Genre: Castle, Robotics, Sculpture, Space, Town/Train, Vehicles, (etc.)
So, if I really want to find out how people are using their Duplo, I can search
for that regardless of theme. Or I could look only for Duplo sculptures. It
seems to me that some of the “themes” discussed elsewhere are genres, and some
of them are media, which is causing some of the confusion. Separating them
might help.
Best,
Joe
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| (...) It does, thanks Lar! It's starting to look like there's no "definitive" listing, so time to get creative. Rather than have a very detailed 500-entry list that nobody would use, we'll probably end up coming up with a 30-50 entry list, which (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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