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Re: Bad Policy #2 (Why all the secrecy, LEGO Direct?)
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Thu, 17 May 2001 18:28:26 GMT
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Richard,
I couldn't have stated it any better than you in the way you lament our lack of
basic building parts. You waxed poetically at the historic lack of parts
available to the fans of their products. Ironically TLCs own set designers are
also constrained by what is available to them in parts to use. Only the Legoland
model builders appear to have laissez faire parts access. Hmmmm, I bet this
would make for an interesting Wall Street Journal story.
Gary Istok
richard marchetti wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Jeff's description of a vicious circle in product development (moving more
> > and more in the Jr direction as the effects of previous jrization show up in
> > product play time and retention time marketing studies) is particularly apt.
> > And scary!
>
> You're right, Larry! And you know how I hate it when that happens...
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> =oP
>
> I had a co-worker, who shall remain nameless, who possesses this kind of
> short attention span. We had gone to TRU together a few times -- and while
> I always made for the construction toy aisles, he always made for the
> videogame section. The strange thing is I have seen him blow some serious
> money on a variety of games and systems, only to become almost immediately
> bored with them. He purchased a Game Boy and a mass of games, only to give
> them away within a few weeks. He had received a Dreamcast system, only to
> give it to someone else in turn in just a few months. He recently purchased
> a Playstation 2, and I expect it will go the same route as the previous
> systems and games. I know that he rarely plays these games to the end,
> becoming bored with them far in advance of that. He even complains of his
> own short attention span, and while not using these very words, he often
> expresses something akin to "Is that all there is?" just like in the song by
> Peggy Lee!
>
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1083/isthat.htm
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> I dunno. One has to pace oneself. One must have a variety of interests,
> true, but also concentrate on the few that best fulfill one's mode of
> expression.
>
> But maybe that's the problem -- people lack for things to express. Instead
> they consume at an ever more frenzied pace having not much to say.
>
> And while there's no doubt that the average AFOL is a consumer of a sort --
> I personally consume with a bigger picture in mind than mere consumerism for
> consumerism's sake. I have a plan, as yet not much revealed to the rest of
> you here, that is fairly impressive (or so I hope, sad Lego boy that I am).
> I purchase and trade with my project in mind. I am not obsessed with being
> complete in anything, which is why I am NOT complete in anything. I prefer
> to purchase several of one thing that meets certain needs, than to spend on
> something else because of a collector's impulse. And I guess that's why I
> fault the impulse towards collecting MISB sets -- such a person isn't even
> playing with the sets! "Collecting" Lego just smacks of an impulse that I
> think is sort of dangerous. But, I guess to each his own...
>
> I just hope that this need to consume doesn't somehow filter into other
> aspects of one's life -- but I bet it does! I bet the high divorce rate has
> something to do with people's general and increasing frivolity. They just
> can't stay with anything!
>
> Bored?
>
> Hey! Check out the neighbor's wife...no, wait -- the Giants are playing at
> 3Com...where's the beer?...I don't want to watch Survivor!...When does
> Weakest Link air?...Where's my 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac?
>
> -- Hop-Frog
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| (...) You're right, Larry! And you know how I hate it when that happens... =oP I had a co-worker, who shall remain nameless, who possesses this kind of short attention span. We had gone to TRU together a few times -- and while I always made for the (...) (24 years ago, 15-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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