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Re: Time to write Lego Consumer Affairs a (nasty) letter..
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:47:11 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, John Henry Kruer writes:
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> Anyway, the problem is that most kids have never known any of old Lego, and
> of the current inventory, they like what Lego is giving them. However, we
> don't. Most of the market is taken up by 6-12 year olds, and with the
> present day games, which are mostly video games and computor games, older
> Lego wouldn't sell with the present action-addicted, lower-attention span
> kids. Stuff like Bionicle is just what they like. Old space sets are
> boring to them. They will buy Bionicle, though.
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> Still, other than the horrible main themes, Lego is pretty good. The
> Legends and Classics redeem Lego alot. I'm just dissapointed that the
> 'traditional' themes (space, technic,and town) are either almost extinct, or
> replaced with such stuff as Jack Stone and those flex-wire things that
> replace technic beams.
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> John Kruer
Here's a link to something on NPR:
http://search1.npr.org/opt/collections/torched/wesu/data_wesu/seg_118755.htm
It starts talking about violence with Bionicle, but near the end a
Psychology proffesser talks a bit on why Bionicle is what it is, and I think
that his blurb has some info that could relate to all of Lego. Just click
'listen to segment'
John Kruer
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