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Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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lugnet.lego
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Sun, 21 Nov 2004 04:15:54 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Steve Lane wrote:
> In lugnet.lego, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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> > 4 years ago on Lugnet I started a letter writing campaign to KKK about how TLG
> > is ignoring us. That letter got 126 AFOL names on it. It never did make it to
> > KKK, because the next thing we know, Lego Direct was announced. So they
> > certainly did heard us.
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> In my opionion, Lego direct is inferior to the old service leaflets you used to
> be able to get. Under the old system you used to be able to buy, in small
> qauntites, virtually any Technic part you wanted. Now you have to buy a whole
> 'service pack' which is over priced, contains many parts you don't want and has
> genrally been juniorized.
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> >
> > Today we can buy Lego elements in colors we never even dreamed of 4 years ago.
> > Today I can buy dozens of different parts in Maersk Blue in Bricklink (or dozens
> > of other colors). But some people just are caught up in always looking at the
> > negative.
> >
> > TLG is not perfect, neither is Jake. But they are trying (and in Jake's case,
> > trying very hard). That is more than TLG did for AFOLs in the previous 40
> > years.
> >
> > For someone who has been involved with Lego for 44 years, I have to tell the
> > rest of you this: For a long time no one has been more critical of TLG than I
> > have, and for good reason (I actually purchased 90 copies of one $5 set in 1987
> > only to get the 4 yellow windows out of each set).
> >
> > But since 2001 I have now come to this realization.... in the 55 years that Lego
> > has been on this planet, there is no better time to be an AFOL than right now,
> > and it is getting better!
>
> No it's not, it's getting worse. I'm totally biased towards technic, but the
> whole range is going down the crapper. At least last year we had the Jcb with
> ten pnumatic cylinders, this year the only two main models are a rubbish truck
> and a jeep which doesn't do much. You can get a re-issued pnumatic crane as
> well, but it'd be cheaper second hand off Ebay.
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> I'll go to bricklink and Ebay to my parts from now on.
>
> Steve
Steve,
I agree with you on the Technic argument. I personally haven't liked Town since
the 1970's, but others don't see it that way. Around 1980 I started to build
MOCs. Granted a lot of AFOL's prefer to build mostly what the company comes out
with. But I am like many other AFOLs prefer to build MOCs. I really like
Bricklink for the opportunity it gives us to buy more of the items from "the
good old days", whenever that was (it is different for each of us). Town today
is a shell of its' former self. I know that space people are not happy. And as
you stated Technic is not what it once was. But I think in a sense that all
Lego System have gone thru the "doldrums". Can we as AFOLs change that? I
doubt it. Perhaps we are asking or expecting more of Lego Direct than their
mandate allows.
As we can see the Lego train system is where a lot of attention has gone lately.
Usually what is good for train, is good also for town (as can be seen with a lot
of MOCs using train windows as town building windows).
When I see a new set, I look at its "harvesting" potential, what good spare
parts I can get out of it for use in MOCs. Where I see potential, others see
disappointment. And I can understand that. But I have never expected TLG to
give me sets that I WANT, or that I know what others will want . That would be
very presuptuous of me. I am just glad that they are getting the scarcer parts
out to Bricklink.
I just think that rehashing the same old discussion about the color change over
and over again (how many months has it been since we found out?) gets to be
counterproductive.
Again, I was stating "this is the best time to be an AFOL", from a "parts for
MOC" point of view, and not from a point of view of the sets that TLG is
producing (like I said, I haven't been pleased with the stuff they have produced
since the 1970's). I should have made that clarification.
Gary Istok
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