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Re: Some disturbing news
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:16:07 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson writes:
> Kids of today have grown up around nintendo games and action figures
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.
> 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.
I strongly disagree. So then I take it that you think juniorization is
necessary?
The things that compete for kids time and attention today are the same ones
that have been around for at least 20 years. Yet, only recently has lego
started to do badly. Kids are not stupid. They see juniorization for what it
is.
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| (...) Not to condone juniorization, but I think a little bit of it may be a good thing. Of course, I think it's terrible to juniorize a whole theme (or range of themes!) across the board, but since every kid is different, some kids probably do (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| But his parents would probably help him or build together with him. My parents ( my fahter ) used to build big TECHNIC sets with me, but now I can build them myself. --Tobias (...) here (...) you (...) which (...) to (...) one (...) put (...) pick (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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