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Re: Advent Calendar: 4124 vs. 4524
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:34:42 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Matthias Jetleb writes:
> > Then perhaps it's time to change the design of the calendar. What about one
> > small model on the first day (sticking with today's type of designs) but
> > then the pieces on the 2nd day are additional elements that are specific to
> > day 1, making a larger model of 20 - 30 pieces. In other words, the pieces
> > on day 2 don't make much of a model on their own, but supplement the pieces
> > the kids have already received on day one. Then you repeat the process
> > every other day... or even every third day.
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> Now THAT is a great idea! I hadn't thought of it beyond 24 individual
> models, but a cumulative method has tremendous potential. They could,
> in fact, model a small town (and maybe include a baseplate
> shrinkwrapped to the back of the calendar). In fact, a "Santa's
> Village" would be neat, not to mention appropriate.
Ya!
I think the current design thinking may need to be turned around/inside out
a bit... several offerings of late feature weird agglomerated models (think
about the McDonalds promo packs of a few years back)... individual models
are cool, but the model you build out of the parts is just weird. A
spaceship with 5 different sets of wheels or some such.
If you want a good combined model it is better to design the combined model
first, then design the individuals.
With a new "big" model every 3 days or so that gives you 8 big models,
enough for a fairly respectable tableaux (Santa's village, yes, or
whatever). Also this has the advantage of encouraging kids to take stuff
apart and rebuild it differently, teaching them idioms about parts and
theories about set analysis without them realising it!
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| (...) Now THAT is a great idea! I hadn't thought of it beyond 24 individual models, but a cumulative method has tremendous potential. They could, in fact, model a small town (and maybe include a baseplate shrinkwrapped to the back of the calendar). (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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