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Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:04:30 GMT
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Hello!
Yes, I appreciate what LEGO has done for me (me, being an AFOL, as I am only
entitled to speak for myself) and I really like many of LEGO Direct’s products.
I simply love the concept “LEGO system” and that’s what I’m grateful for as well
as for everything that TLC has ever issued to support this system concept.
And as much as I appreciate LEGO for everything they did for the system, I
dislike everythink they did to weaken this system. Changing well-established
colours is something that weakens the system. That bothers me. And I will
express my feelings towards anything that bothers me whenever I feel like it.
Lugnet is not meant to be a Praise Simply Everything That Is LEGO Club as far as
I understand it.
I understand that somebody who started his LEGO-life with CA bricks and only 5
colours of which 3 used to be rare has different standards about what is making
LEGO great than somebody like me who was born only in 1977. The timeframe that’s
important for me is from 1978 (as sets from this year were still availanble when
I was old enough to get them) till 2003. Everything that was released since 2004
cannot be much appreciated by me because there was that little change that
changed about everything for me. OK, that sound’s pathetic. However, maybe in
500 years from now I will be at ease with LEGO’s change of the system. Has the
Catholic Church gotten over Luther’s little negligible unimportant and
forgettable attempt to change something, yet?
As for praising what Jake McKee has done for us: Well, I’m glad we have people
like Jake at TLC who work for the so called AFOL community. I appreciate what
they do, I don’t disregard their efforts and I’m greatful whenever these efforts
yield anything that helps me with my LEGO hobby. But I don’t know how hard those
people are working nor do I see everything they do and bring us is helping me
with my LEGO hobby so I’m not constantly praising them. They are doing their job
and I believe they are doing their job in the best manner they are able to.
That’s honourable but it should be taken for granted as well. Are you not doing
your job as good as you can? Do you expect to be constantly praised for doing
so?
Reading Lugnet it seems as if there is an unwritten law or gentlemen’s
agreement that every post must contain at least one “Jake does a magnificent
job”-statement. Sometimes this constant apple-polishing bothers me more than the
never ending complains about complains about complaining complainers.
Bye
Jojo
Lugnet member #693
My BrickShelf folder
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| (...) Did you just compare the Catholic Church and the Protestant Revolution to Lego and the color change? Are you the same guy who runs around on Slashdot and compares college kids being busted for pirating music to the civil rights movement of the (...) (20 years ago, 27-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| Hi Jake, I NEVER get involved with controversial issues on LUGNET, but I couldn't stay quiet any longer (or I might explode into a million minifig parts). First off, the color change thing. OK, it's a done deal. People GET OVER IT!!!! If you don't (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego) !!
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