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"Mike Petrucelli" <lordinsanity@usa.net> wrote in message news:G9qJwF.Gqu@lugnet.com... (...) an (...) kids (...) know (...) How sad, but true. (...) YES!! We *are* the ones making sense here, those who have observed the decline of LEGO products and (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) ... (...) That pretty much sums it up, doesn't it? No, MB bricks aren't as good as LEGO. Nobody said they were... but can they be a satisfactory (and cheap) substitute? To some people, in some cases... definitely. This is especially true in (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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A. Mark Wilburn wrote in message ... (...) box. I have to disagree with you on this point. I have a four(almost five) year old boy and the mini set bags make it easier for him to build the sets. He gets frustrated when he can't find the parts. This (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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I'm a little confused here. You don't want to waste time looking for the pieces but you want them all to be the same color and if they're pre-sorted into "minisets" you'd rather dump them all out into the box? When I built the UCS sets, it was the (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Tim Courtney wrote in message ... (...) and (...) I guess that this comment is directed to my statement about Lego disappointing me. I didn't really mean to be so cynical, I was just trying to be realistic. The town role theme really appeals to 4-7 (...) (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Tim Courtney wrote in message ... (...) company (...) will (...) Fine, I'll just stop posting on LUGNET. (...) areas (...) I think you just did this by the above statement. Thanks for your input. Rose (23 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Very bad wording on my part... whoops. And I'm out of my room too away from the newsreader where I can cancel posts. Rose - my comment about having a filter on Richard's messages was not aimed as a slight against you. It was expressing my (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I fully agree with this. If the design quality is up to par I don't care how it is packaged. -Mike Petrucelli (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ok, obviously I confused you (and Doug, and Mike). No, I don't hate the bags at all; I've heard comments to the effect of some people really don't like them (I can't remember who said this, but I've seen many posts that say something to the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) G'day Tim, I saw you mention this survey in passing once before, but I think I missed the original proposal. So my question about this survey is, "To what end?" I.e., what's the goal? It sounds like you would be doing work that TLC should be (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Kyle D. Jackson <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> wrote in message news:G9uz3L.MH@lugnet.com... (...) Hi Kyle - The goal of a survey of this type is to show that Juniorization is not what parents and kids want. In some email I had exchanged with (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) That's brilliant! Except, I wouldn't mind them branching into software and other material if they were as good as the Big Mac. You have to remember quality over quantity... . Or, something like that! I actually wouldn't mind buying Lego (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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I don't remember caring much what kind of bags they were in. As long as they ended up looking like what was on the outside of the box when the building was done! I think I actually preferred the items sorted by type, as opposed to sub-assembly (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Mike Horvath wrote in message ... (...) your (...) complicating. Lego has stated that they believe kids don't want to spend as much time building and this was a reason for Jr. sets. The separate bags also speed up the buillding process, but the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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There have been many times in life (College, Grad School, PhD, Jobs, Kids, etc) where I've been acutely aware that the _only_ reason I was able to persevere through and solve problems was due to the patience and methodical search approach I learned (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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Lou's original post, on the current state of Lego, made me pretty sad. I'm now 28, so I grew up as a kid playing with sets from ~1978-1990, a truly wonderful time for Lego. Thankfully, I saved everything I had and they are now part of my collection. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) I really can't understand why you (not only you but other people who also said that) are so upset with current (I mean old) way of packaging. If you just open the bags to make piles of each individual bag, instead of a big common pile, I (...) (23 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Guess I'm weird that way; I'm almost insulted when I get a Town Junior set that's pre-seperated for me (but oh well, not like I can't just dump it all out) yet when I get a larger set I'd like some sort of sorting. Yes, you're right, if I had (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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"A. Mark Wilburn" <amwilburn@iname.com> wrote in message news:GB1B51.DzJ@lugnet.com... (...) Why be insulted? I think that separation is a good step for keeping kids' attention spans, and if they're separated it makes it a faster build for you too. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, they do still. But you have to go to a specialty store for them. Examples are the Velux house, all the 2000 Shell sets and probably some others that escape me right now. The problem is not that kids want something easier to build, but what (...) (23 years ago, 31-Mar-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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