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Re: Informations on new TECHNIC element and color coded parts
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Fri, 11 May 2007 09:30:51 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Didier Enjary wrote:

   Concerning color coding process, you will also discover in the months to come that the gears , the same way pins and axles, are color coded (in this case with tan, grey, dark grey and black). This coding is aimed at ease the distinction between gear’s size and straight, bevel, crown, worm and idle gears.

Oh God, please tell me this is just another bad joke. There comes a point where you just have to say ‘sorry, but if you’re too stupid to be able to compare a gear with a perfectly clear design illustration then you should probably just stick to Sticklebricks’.

If you just dumb down designs to cater for the lowest level of intelligence in your customers, all you do is raise another generation even dumber than the last.

Lego - please stop. The majority of your customers do have a brain, and come from good homes with helpful parents and all that guff. Don’t make it worse for them.

Jason R



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  Re: Informations on new TECHNIC element and color coded parts
 
Jason J Railton wrote: > Lego - please stop. The majority of your customers do have a brain, and come (...) Could the Bionicle be responsible for that? They use the Technic parts, and they infest Technic too. The age group is quite different to that (...) (18 years ago, 12-May-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.lego)

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  Informations on new TECHNIC element and color coded parts
 
Hi, You maybe noticed this year the existence of a new TECHNIC element. A cross axle extension (59443) has appeared and replace the old one (6538). 6538 : (URL) 59443 : (URL) (inventoried as 6538c in Peeron) This new element is simplier than the old (...) (18 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, FTX) ! 

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