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Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!)
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 04:43:00 GMT
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> I also had basic Lego (not very much but enough to build
> what I liked to build). Care
> to guess what I built with the Lego? Houses. Inside detail, outside
> detail, gardens, the odd car, but that was to park in the garage of the
> house. Had I had access to more Lego I would have built whole Towns.
Well, that doesn't surprise me. In my KFOL days (pre Dark Ages) I was
undeniably a Townie. When all you own is brick bricks, roof tiles, doors,
windows, trees and flags, it does tend to predispose you to building houses
and other town buildings. Also, the boxes that the pieces came from showed
houses and other town buildings. Although it was pre-theme Lego, the focus
was very much on towns. And all the other kids I knew with Lego build towns
too. I don't recall ever seeing Lego wheels or vehicles at that time
(although I know from the LUGnet database that they did exist in that time
frame, but I don't know if we got them here in Oz). We used to use Matchbox
cars to drive around our Lego buildings.
However, in my AFOL days (post Dark Ages) I've never really been tempted to
get into Town. Maybe I just did too much of it as a child :-)
I don't have a problem with Town, or with anyone male, female or anything in
between liking Town. I just don't go for the idea that there exists some
subset of Lego that is somehow "better for girls" or that girls as a group
are deemed to not like certain themes. I firmly believe you should expose
children to as wide an array of (safe) toys as possible, and let them
determine their own preferences and not have the preferences of others
imposed on them.
Having said all that, I give Lego to kids a lot. I guess I'm imposing my
preference for Lego on them :-)
Kerry
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| (...) Why stop at kids? My grandfather, Dad, Mum and sister are all scoring a small Lego set this Easter (colour coded to match an Easter Egg and a painting from my three year old daughter). They can always give them back to me if they don't want (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) TLC itself, unfortunately, continues to subscribe to this idea. IIRC the 1999 (or was it 2000?) catalog had pages for boys and pages for girls, and now the 2001 catalog has pages for all kids and pages for girls. Remember Homemaker, the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes: <snipped for space> (...) I had wheels (but I'm a little younger than you :)). Unfortunately I don't have any idea what set numbers I had, so it'd be hard to put a year on it, sometime mid seventies. (...) (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) As a child I had Barbie and baby dolls, a tea-set, stuffed animals, Matchbox cars, a train set, a racing bike set, a sandpit with a marvellous Tonka Dump Truck (which I still treasure even though it's rusty (the truck not the sandpit!)), (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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