Subject:
|
Re: Some disturbing news
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:36:38 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1171 times
|
| |
|
|
Tony Kilaras wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Peter Callaway writes:
> > > If that's true then look for a big auction after it's confirmed.
> > > It might just be my entire Lego collection.
> >
> > I'll probably do the same. The real knife in the guts was that my source said
> > "Lego are only targeting kids", ie. to hell with us AFOL's. Over two decades
> > of loyalty from me is rewarded with a kick in the teeth.
>
> I would say Lego has been targeting primarily kids since the introduction of
> the mini-fig. I can't think of even one instance (and I've been here a long
> time) where Lego implemented something an AFOL wanted. What's changed is that
> Lego now thinks that kids are now simplistic, commercially driven, attention-
> deficit afflicted morons. Hence, rampant juniorization and tie-ins with Star
> Wars and Disney and God knows what else.
>
> We can't do anything about the current situtation. Nothing. We have to wait
> this nonsense out. I regret that Star Wars is such a success for Lego because
> it merely postpones the day of reckoning.
Kids of today have grown up around nintendo games and action figures
You give a kid of today a 5571 giant truck or an 8880 supercar and say here are
the instructions and here are the bits. see if you can put it together. do you
think that we would get a perfect 5571 or 8880? nope because the kid would stop
and go play nintendo 64 or playstation or play with his new luke skywalker action
figure or whatever. the kids of thday have short attention spans and TLG knows
this. think about this:
if a kid got a 5571 for christmas and got bored with it rarther quickly, which
kids might do then what is the kid going to do? they are going to complain to
their parents, their parents will take the 5571 back and get a 6494 all in one
police/fire station crappy juionerised set that the kid will be able to put
together before they loose interest in it and then they can spend all day driving
the fire truck or flying the police helicopter around the house. can you pick up a
8480 space shuttle and fly it around the house making wooshing noises? no, i
thought not.
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
|
|
Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Some disturbing news
|
| (...) So did I. There have always been many alternatives to Lego. When I was younger, you had Star Wars, GI Joe, Atari and Matchbox cars. (...) are (...) stop (...) action (...) driving (...) up a (...) I strongly disagree. So then I take it that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Some disturbing news
|
| (...) Some, not all. My kids couldn't tell the difference between nintendo or tenelevendo;-) (...) ILYK Today is my son's 10th birthday and he's getting the 8448-- I wouldn't bet against him, though;-) (...) I think TLG knows that kids are (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Some disturbing news
|
| Jonathan Wilson skrev i meddelandet <3815AE66.C10C6687@x...il.com>... (...) are (...) you (...) stop (...) action (...) I think you are generalizing too much! How many kids of today have you raised? 'Here are the instructions and here are the bits' (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: Some disturbing news
|
| (...) I would say Lego has been targeting primarily kids since the introduction of the mini-fig. I can't think of even one instance (and I've been here a long time) where Lego implemented something an AFOL wanted. What's changed is that Lego now (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
|
57 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
