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Re: LEGO Factory Updated
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 9 May 2006 19:29:17 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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http://www.legofactory.com
As mentioned last month, LEGO Factory has just now been updated with quite a
few improvements - including individual part pricing rather than by-the-bag
pricing - among several other things. There’s a new LDD (v1.6) released,
which also runs on Intel Macs, and more than 500 different bricks, including
elements for trains and minifigs as well as decorated bricks. Oh, and
one more important thing...
It includes an LDraw Exporter.
I haven’t downloaded and played with it yet, but I’m about to. The press
release says there will be about a 60% savings over bag-based palettes.
Kelly
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Wow. This is great. I loaded in some models I had made with this last summer
and after replacing some parts, got a few models and checked their price. The
difference is amazing. A little model that cost a ridiculous $100+ last summer
is now very reasonably priced at around $12. At last this tool makes sense to
use! I had given up on it after the initial excitement last summer because of
the way the parts bag system worked - but this “by the piece” system makes it
something that lives up to the hype.
Now, I wonder if the initial release and advertising that TLG did over the last
year is going to hurt them - a lot of kids and parents have probably tried this
and had a bad experience with the pricing. I wish TLG had actually kept this
under wraps until now, when it is finally ready for primetime. Will kids and
parents give this idea another chance? I hope so...but time will tell.
I also have to interject a note of pessimism. The fact that this is the
long-anticipated “Lego Train Factory” does not bode well for the continuance of
the 9V system. My understanding from the presentation at BF last summer was
that Lego Train Factory and the new “hobby train” line would be closely tied
together. It seems we now have the train factory, without 9V parts. I hear the
bell tolling for the 9V train system, unfortunately.
But, on the whole, this has made me happy. I will probably actually buy
something directly from Lego Shop @ Home due to this, and that hasn’t happened
in a number of years...
It is the first time since last summer’s Brickfest that I felt good about
something going on at the Lego company.
--
Thomas Main
thomasmain@charter.net
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| In lugnet.general, Thomas Main wrote: -snip- (...) It probably did, but my thought is that the kids played with the program, got expensive sets, then decided to just play with LDD and not buy anything...the models that have gone into LDD are still (...) (18 years ago, 9-May-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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