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Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!)
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 04:51:49 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Deidre Rushton Brumby writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
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> > > Girls in particular seem much more interested in Town than all the "danger
> > > and violence" themes.
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> > Speak for yourself, girlie! :-) I like robotics, technics, star wars, and
> > have a ship of bloodthirsty piratesses. I am definitely Town-light,
> > Belville-challenged, and Paradisa-impaired. Indeed, most of the Townies I
> > know are male.
Actually, that would probably be quite true....Kerry. I know a lot of
female Lego Enthusiasts really like the pirate line and the castle line...
> 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.
To Deidre: this is my intention at this point...sure I have a large collection.
(My mother says its beginning to overtake my room - and I'm 26!!! [shame on
me] :-) ) I've only just recently decided to concentrate more on building
more residential areas for my town layout. I bought Basic set 725 a while
ago (1993??) and would like a few more copies (maybe 2 or 3)...a few other
house designs would also be great for the town.
> I buy a wide range of Lego, I've got a smattering of everything right from
> Primo up to Mindstorms, including Belville. My favourite themes within Lego
> are in order 1. Duplo Trains (extending into System) 2. Mindstorms and 3.
> Town.
> (Everything else is pretty much bought for parts). If you extract the non
> System from that list, you're left with: houses :)
Again to Deidre: My priority of Lego is this: Town, Train, Pirate, Castle,
and Paradisa. I have a wide range of sets - a lot of Town sets, most of
the current 9V train sets, Wild West, Adventures (all 3 sub-themes),
Castle (have Night Lord's Castle, Flying Ninja Fortress, Stone Tower
Bridge, and Robber's Retreat, would dearly love to buy Knights Kingdom
Leo's Castle, and King's Mountain Fortress. In process of buying
Hydronaught's Neptune Discovery Lab. I also have two small space sets that
came in a bonus pack. Most of my other "space related" sets are from the
town (Launch Command/SpacePort).
> My 5 year old son (who has also been raised in a non gender specific
> environment and has everything from a dollhouse to trucks) also loves Town,
> but for a different reason: car crashes, fires, breakdowns, collapsing
> buildings, police chases, preferably all at once. I have a ball building
> nice streetscapes and he has a ball trashing them enacting out some
> emergency scenario. He also builds spaceships, I don't
Again to Deidre: I would have to agree with your son, and completely
understand and condone his behavior....my first sets were a police station
and a fire station. When I was little (around 6), my 3 favorite things
were: construction scenes (especially road work)...errr more specifically
construction vehicles, police cars, and fire trucks.
My parents knew they could hook me to Lego by giving me those sets for
my birthday/christmas...it worked (I've been hooked for over 18 years now)
As my collection grew, my third major set was the Cargo Center...so I
would pretend there was a fire there to send out the fire trucks....
then I got the Big Rig Truck Stop....that was a lot of fun as well....
major truck accidents and stuff....loads of fun.
> In summary:
> I agree with the comment that, in general, girls are more interested in
> Townscapes when it comes to Lego, boys do seem to prefer emergencies and
> other forms of violence, and force fed genderisation probably doesn't have
> much to do with it. Neither gender seems to appreciate the dumb-downed
> aspects of recent Lego sets, all of them want the detail no matter what they
> build. And what you like to build with Lego as a child probably doesn't have
> much to do with how you turn out as an adult.
Final Note to Deidre: I don't think Kerry agrees with your sentiments.
I'd think she'd rather brandish the concept of female buccaneers...:-)
I do not care for the juniorization at all, but somehow seem to have
purchased a good lot of them...the only set I didn't buy was the
newest police station....ewwww yuckie!!! I bought the bank, cycle shop
(needs to be slightly modified to be seen in my town), coast guard HQ
(nice set), Cargo Center (not as nice as either the original or the
delivery center, but I wanted to be cargo center complete), Truck Stop
Cafe (wish the set was bigger...got my first real Lego Construction
vehicle), Super Rescue Center (wish the buildings were bigger, but has
nice add-on for parts; good starter set, even though a bit pricey!!)
I also got both the Blaze Brigade and the Fire Fighter's HQ so I could
be Fire Station Complete. I think these are the worst designed fire
sets ever....especially the Blaze Brigade.
Just a few of my thoughts....
Benjamin Medinets
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