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Re: Ideas and Suggestions for LEGO S@H
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:14:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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- What do you think LEGO would never do that you’d love to see?
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1) LEGO Factory with a huge palette of parts and colors that lets you buy a
model exactly to the piece, without having to buy any extra pieces.
2) Mindstorms creations with realistic-looking details. An extreme example to
make my point: imagine RCX on the inside but UCS styling on the outside.
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- What types of themes/concepts should LEGO stay away from?
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Anything with a lot of large, limited-use, special-purpose pieces. Occasional
special pieces are okay and could probably be justified.
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- Are there any community projects/products (Moonbase? Great Ball?) that you’d like to see turn into a LEGO set?
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I already see LEGO Factory as having great potential to aid all community
projects in a general way without having it seem like TLG is trying to come in
and take control of a community endeavor.
... that is once LEGO Factory reaches it’s promise and we’re past the current
silliness of everything being either a $1000 set with 200 pieces or an
affordable set that’s nothing more than an alternate of a designer set we
already own (i.e. we’re drowning in a sea of red cars, blue planes, and white
houses with red roofs... )
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- (And as a follow-up to the last question – are there any projects/products that LEGO should stay away from?)
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Sports.
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- What types of products/themes/concepts do you think are missing from the assortment over the years?
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1) I’d love to see a line of miniland scale sets. Just some of the little
scenes you see in the display cases in the LEGO stores would be great. I seem
to recall one with a limo, stars, photographers, and a motorcycle cop, that I
think would make an awesome (and successful) set.
2) Sets that include full landscapes made out of bricks along with the
buildings. See many awesome examples here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=hachi
3) UCS Non-Star-Wars (not that UCS Star Wars isn’t great, but why not stretch
the genre...)
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- Are there things missing in general? On box? In the instructions? In the box materials?
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Instructions for alternate models would be great. I personally disagree with
the “if you give them instructions they won’t be inspired” sentiment. I think
it’s the opposite. When a kid sees a cool alternate on the box but can’t figure
out how it was done it just creates frustration (I experienced this a lot as a
kid...). If you include the instructions, then the kid can see how the parts
were cleverly used to create something cool from a limited parts selection. The
kid can then go and make other alternates out of his/her imagination. To not
include the alternate instructions implies that TLG is thinking “What’s on the
box is the only other cool thing that could be done with those pieces so we
better not let the cat out of the bag and spoil it for everybody.”
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Thanks for your contribution!
Kelly McKiernan
LEGO Ambassador
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Thank you for this great opportunity to share our ideas!
-Paul
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| In lugnet.general, Paul S. D'Urbano wrote: snip (...) This was the second mention of miniland replicas as a suggestion. AWESOME idea. Like a model at the park? Buy it in the Big Store or over S@H once you get home. I third the motion! .Steve (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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