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Subject: 
Is Lego running out of Castle ideas??
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Date: 
Mon, 6 Sep 2004 06:09:17 GMT
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I recently walked through a TRU and found that someone had placed all of the
Lego castle sets on the same shelf with the Playmobile castle sets. First off I
informed the nearest store employee who started to move them very quickly.
Second I noticed that Playmobile had a siege tower.

http://store.playmobilusa.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/PM_DisplayProductInformation-Start;sid=9Sj-7ExYmij-_A1jCRHyyoJqspd35HcIYwE=?CategoryName=Ritter_us&ProductID=Rr4MJs4yV5EAAADo4We5APA3&PLS=0

I looked closer and found that it looks extremely close to the Vladek's Siege
Engine

http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=8800&cn=192&d=7&t=3

Any one else wonder if Lego is starting to run out of ideas?

Larry



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  Re: Is Lego running out of Castle ideas??
 
In lugnet.market.shopping, Larry Lesser wrote: snip (...) I would say they are running out of great castle ideas and making average to sub-par sets. The Siege Tower concept is quite old for LEGO Castle. It was used in 1984 in set 6061 Siege Tower. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: Is Lego running out of Castle ideas??
 
(...) Playmobile's and LEGO's themes have often run mysteriously parallel. I remember noticing that both companies were big into pirates at the same time, and the same for wild west. In fact, Fort Legoredo and Fort Eagle had very similar packaging. (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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