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RE: A Parental Perspective on Juniorisation and Being the Stronge st Brand
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au
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Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:52:42 GMT
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Shame Deidre...didn't you see where this thread was aimed...not to the
original groups. Those pesky Italians have tried [successfully] to get
others to post into their group, and so boost their messages count.
[BTW, is there any chance we could do the same to them :) ]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deidre Rushton Brumby [mailto:drb@tasmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 4:34 PM
> To: lugnet.dear-lego@lugnet.com; lugnet.general@lugnet.com;
> lugnet.loc.it@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: A Parental Perspective on Juniorisation and Being the
> Strongest Brand
>
>
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Marco Berti writes:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Ok I am a lego fan but I have a 6 years old boy that loves star wars.
> > After a loong time of pressing request I bought him last • Xmas a Hasbro X-wing
> > that in Italy has more or less the same price of my lego • X-wing (that is true
> > is much smaller)
> > He played two hours with the Hasbro X-wing and then he took • my X-wing and
> > started to play with it, "modifying" it for all the missions needs.
> > After six month he is still playing with "my" lego x-wing
> and the Hasbro
> X.wing
> > lies forgotten somewhere in my house.
> > Which had the better price to play-time ratio?
>
>
> Personally, I am not familiar with either set so I can only
> base my comments
> on what I've read here (I don't even know if the Hasbro one
> is available
> in Australia)
>
> You have the benefit of being an AFOL, so you know which is
> the better buy.
> The person on the street may not. So, if they are roughly
> the same price
> and the Hasbro one is bigger most non-AFOL parents would
> probably choose the
> Hasbro (as others have said) unless the child in question
> especially asked
> for the Lego.
>
> Marco's son is lucky that his Dad had the better model already :)
> But let's say that Johnny's Mum has bought him the Hasbro
> set, and a couple
> of weeks later Johnny sees that Freddy next door has the
> equivalent Lego set
> and would rather have that. Is Johnny's Mum going to turn around
> and buy the Lego set as well? Some parents might, but most
> wouldn't. It
> is even questionable that they'd learn from this. Of course,
> this comes
> back to prices involved and the disposable incomes of the
> people in question.
>
> I suspect it is probably hard for most Lugnetters (parents or
> not) to put
> themselves in the shoes of non AFOLs, me included. We all
> know that, in
> general, Lego is a great toy all round. Because I know that
> Lego is worth
> it, while I cringe at the price and patiently wait for the
> sales (and as
> an AFOL I know when to expect them, other parents may not), I
> still buy it.
> Unfortunately most parents aren't AFOLs and that's where the
> problems come
> in, they judge Lego on different criteria to most of us, and
> in Australia
> the biggest one is the $$$$.
>
> Deidre
> drb@tasmail.com
>
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