To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.lego.directOpen lugnet.lego.direct in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 LEGO Company / LEGO Direct / 2383
2382  |  2384
Subject: 
Re: lego should make multimodel instructions (ala 6861)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Thu, 3 May 2001 13:52:11 GMT
Viewed: 
1894 times
  
In lugnet.lego.direct, Jonathan Wilson writes:

> Heres how it would work:
> 1.the lego design team would come up with a model built using only parts
> from 3 specific sets.
> Examples that would work
> the alpha team helicopter, the alpha team cruiser and the alpha team
> atv/sub
> the life on mars mono jet, the life on mars t3 trike and the life on
> mars solar explorer

Hmmm you forget Technic..

> 
> basicly any group of 3 sets from the middle range of a system theme
> would work (but only from 2001 lines otherwise the sets wont be
> available anymore)


Ok but maybe you could re-releas older classic sets in grouped packs?

> 2.lego puts the instructions for the set online

With a copy to brickshelf?  After all us Internet active lego(R) scan there
frewquently.  And this might solve the limitation on older sets not being
available.

> 3.lego makes small posters with a picture of the model, a url to
> download it from and details of the required sets and such and
> distributes lots of copies to toystores to hand out to customers

And a parts list?

> And it wouldnt cost lego that much to do, plus as I said they get extra
> sales out of it (in theory)

Extra sales would be popular to lego(R) but there might be those that woudl
see the idea of combo instructions as a marketing ploy to sell more
'useless' Jr in some people's eyes.
Thankfully TLC/TLG semms to have realized the mistake over Jr given the
current range..

Alex



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: lego should make multimodel instructions (ala 6861)
 
Hmmm you forget Technic.. But the only technic sets currently out that arent huge are crap :) And doing it for huge sets isnt a good idea, thats the point, you use mid range to small sets, to get good sales :) (...) whatever (...) Not needed, since (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

Message is in Reply To:
  lego should make multimodel instructions (ala 6861)
 
much like they did with blacktron II and M:TRON. Heres how it would work: 1.the lego design team would come up with a model built using only parts from 3 specific sets. Examples that would work the alpha team helicopter, the alpha team cruiser and (...) (25 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

3 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR