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Re: Shop At Home feedback requested.
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:44:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jeff Van Winden wrote:
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Here is what S@H wants to know:
What should S@H pursue and what should they throw out?
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Pursue: More AC trains! :p More Town/City themed stuff, basic bricks, Star
Wars, Harry Potter. Greater variety of Pick-a-Brick in stores and online.
(Service packs and bulk packs seem kind of limited at the moment, and that makes
me sad.) I love the mini Racers -- even moreso than Xpods, and they both make
affordable purchases for kids to make on their own or as inexpensive birthday
gifts and they like for each other.
More classic myth type characters. The Vikings line has been a wonderful
addition, and it would be easy to cycle through some other classic civilizations
and their myths. Imagine an ancient Greece line, with the Greek gods and
monsters (Minotaur, Medusa, etc.), complete with an Athenian Panthenion building
set. Imagine a Roman line, or Aztec (though I don’t see Lego working blood
sacrifices into their sets), or dozens of others. This historical take could be
both fun to build, fun to play with, *and* educational at the same time.
(Imagine an elementary classroom with a few sets from each line to help
stimulate the imagination while studying classic civilizations or mythologies.)
Throw out: Bionicle. Bionicle. Bionicle. Bionicle. And the large Knights
Kingdom figures. And I’m not too thrilled with the whole Ferrari thing.
Exoforce is an amusing thought, but I don’t think it’s going to be good for more
than this year.
The IR trains might be good to get the kids started, but we need to keep the
whole AC line going for the tweens, teens and adults, darn it! :p I don’t just
mean selling a few more pieces of AC track and motors...I mean keeping the AC
sets available and so on. Even if it’s just through Shop@Home.
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Is there anything specific that you’d like to see within the undefined
categories (amusement park rides=roller coaster)?
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Town
- Everyday buildings on mini fig scale, e.g railway stations, businesses to fit train displays
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Love it. Good fit with other Town themed items already for sale, nice way to
build up parts of certain colors for even larger Town-themed MOCs or to give me
ideas. Go for it.
Like it, but could be somewhat limiting. They’ll never look a 1/10 as
impressive as the stuff I see some AFoL’s building, I bet, but on the other
hand, it could certainly get kids started on that sort of building.
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World Buildings
- Taj Mahal
- Sydney opera house
- Empire state building
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I’d love to try some of these, but I imagine they’d be an expensive niche
market...like the UCS Star Wars sets, Sopwith Camel, Statue of Liberty, etc.
Still a fair sight more interesting than a Darth Maul bust, if you ask me.
These might be a good theme for more microscale sets, actually, which would both
make things more affordable and put the buildability within reach of the target
(child) demographic.
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Vehicles
- Muscle cars, hot rods
- Ferrari e.g F40, F50, specific historical race represented
- Classic cars
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Go away! NOW! Icky!
Honestly, cars do next to nothing for me. I have built a few classic vehicles
(a yellow roadster popularized in a particular British TV show and a red
double-decker bus), but that’s about the extent of it for me. I honestly
believe we have too many cars, vehicles, and wheel packs available in the line
*now*.
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Aircraft
- Civil transport planes
- Classic planes from the early days of aviation
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While I’d like to see some expansion in aviation type sets, I’m not sure I’ve
been really impressed with what I’ve seen so far either. I guess I’d aim at
modern or classic military aircraft (i.e. F-14’s, P-38’s, Zero fighters, that
sort of thing) and small civil aircraft (Piper Cubs, Learjets, etc.).
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Other Structures
- Oil rig with functions
- Amusement park with functioning mechanical rides
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These would be amusing and might contain some interesting parts. Actually,
amusement park sets would be a good application for the IR train technology, I
would think.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a few more motorized sets, but with a Town type theme, to
be honest. One of the smaller moving oil wells I see a lot in the West would be
more interesting than a static oil rig, for instance. A working train signal
would be amusing.
I’d like to see more sets like the NASA Discovery line we had a few years back.
Future sets could either tie into future space missions (further robotic
missions to the Moon and Mars, space telescopes and the like) or historical
missions (Sputnik, the Mercury program, the early Soviet space era). In fact, a
line of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo rockets, capsules and astronauts would be
fantastic. I don’t mean itty-bitty rockets either -- I mean minifig-scale, like
the lunar lander was. Imagine building a Mercury capsule, complete with a John
Glenn minifig or some such.
Final note: I’d really like to see Lego go back to yellow flesh tones for
(nearly) all minifigs, regardless of whether they’re “real” people or not! It’s
jarring to find all these peach-colored minifigs popping up in Star Wars and
Harry Potter sets now, when the earlier Star Wars and Harry Potter minifigs are
standard yellow -- where’s the consistency there?
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| "Michael Zecca" <fizzixrat@mn.rr.com> wrote in message news:IuruxG.1s3G@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) I agree wholeheartedly. The flesh colored minifigs are creepy. If LEGO really feels the need to have all of their licensed minifigs have (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
| | | Re: Shop At Home feedback requested.
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| (...) I bought and built one of these when it was first released. It has sat ever since in my lounge room and it attracts enormous attention from anyone who visits. At one point, I suggested it was time to pull it apart and my non-Lego husband said (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-06, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Shop At Home feedback requested.
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| Shop at Home has asked the LEGO Ambassadors to get feedback from the comunities about the concepts listed below; The response we gather and compile will be used to, decide which themes to develop further: Make sure you read the legal disclaimer (...) (18 years ago, 15-Feb-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct, FTX) !
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