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The LEGO Ambassadors have been asked to provide some suggestions to the LEGO
Shop at Home people about what types of things we AFOLs would like to see
offered or available from S@H. This is a good opportunity for you to make a
serious suggestion that will get passed on to those who are in charge of S@H. Of
course, this in no way guarantees that any of the suggestions will necessarily
bear fruit, but you never know until you suggest. I’ll collate the results by
the end of the weekend, although that doesn’t necessarily mean later posts will
be excluded.
This is a theoretical discussion, so there are no limitations on suggestions. Of
course, things like “free bricks for everyone” and other implausible suggestions
are likely to not make it through the review, if you get my drift. But as far as
topics go, this is a “sky’s the limit” discussion.
- What do you think LEGO would never do that you’d love to see?
- What types of themes/concepts should LEGO stay away from?
- Are there any community projects/products (Moonbase? Great Ball?) that you’d like to see turn into a LEGO set?
- (And as a follow-up to the last question – are there any projects/products that LEGO should stay away from?)
- What types of products/themes/concepts do you think are missing from the assortment over the years?
- Are there things missing in general? On box? In the instructions? In the box materials?
Thanks for your contribution!
Kelly McKiernan
LEGO Ambassador
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| (...) Well first and foremost THANK YOU for asking and providing a positive thread on lugnet. (...) Additional % off on bulk packs- up to 25% would be preferable for 50+ packs New metal rail train track geometry!!!...!!! stubbies, crossovers, half/ (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) When I think of S@H specifically, I think of service packs. I generally find the service pack selection from S@H to be bizarre. 10046? 10007? 10047? I suppose that there is some business case for those sets, but some systemization and (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'd like to see detailed models of current production vehicles. We have the Enzo Ferrari, but not everyone can afford a real Ferrari. Perhaps team up with automakers when they launch new vehicles and launch a Lego version of it at the same (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| "Kelly McKiernan" <kelly@anagrafyxx.com> wrote in message news:In950L.H11@lugnet.com... (...) Wow! And here I was thinking that somebody would never ask this kind of question! Guess I was wrong! ;) (...) Bring back elements that are out of (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Bulk packs of light grey (bley) 2x2 tiles (and more of the earth tone colors as tiles) If they can do black, red & white, why not light grey (bley)? All these magnificent train layouts, virtually flawless (IMO) with one exception: white tiled (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) -An animal accessory pack(s). Something like a zoo builder with each one having an assortment of animals in standard and new colors with perhaps some new animals. Maybe on for each continent. NA: brown bear, black bear, tan owl, lightgrey (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I would love to see Lego develop a true bulk parts mail order system. Currently, certain lucky AFOLs can go to nearby Lego stores or parks and visit the “Pick a Brick” section to buy bulk parts. I would love to see this expanded to a large (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| The ability to specify LEGO to 'ship complete order', instead of sending me stuff in multiple shipments. I've had orders where part of the order was shipped right away, and part of the order was back-ordered - so it was shipped later. And, because I (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| **Real** bulk ordering. - Keeping the basic colors and sizes available ALL the time (last time I looked, I couldn't buy white 1x4's any more!) - A full range of sizes of bricks, plates, slopes and tiles in all the basic colors - A price point (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I appreciate that LEGO stays away from warfare that is based on 20th century technology. Warfare/Violent based themes, e.g. castle, ninja, pirates that are pre-20th Century still seem okay. Things to add/change: new track geometries bulk bags (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Lots of good ideas already! (...) I'd like to see a "Roaring 20's" town theme: Steam locomotive train set (both passenger and freight) "Model A" style vehicles Corner Drugstore with soda fountain Gas station w/ 1920's style gas pumps (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) LEGO/The Sims sets: Minifigs and expandable homebuilding sets, including road baseplates. Bring back the classic greys. REALLY let customers buy whichever bricks they like. The choice of availability at S&H (and PAB, for that matter) is very (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) 1 pound color packs - simply one pound of any color, assorted and random. (...) Changing themes every 3 seconds. Bonktron. (...) More house sets such as 4886, and in stores! (...) Anything that's too large and complicated. (...) There is no (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Create and sell plans to the Miniland boats (!!) and land vehicles. Buildings and freighters are too big, but the small boats and cars/trucks could be analyzed and plans created. Espcially the sailboats and the Combine Harvester (...) Junior / (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Foliage (2 URLs) These parts should be among the most common, as they can be used in nearly every single theme. I can not for the life of me figure out why they are rare to the point it is impossible for most people to afford any usable (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Jake has mentioned that old greys would be scattered here and there in sets. I'd like to see a S@H "grab bag" of misc grey parts, available at a price point equal to the buckets. That I'll never see ;-) (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote: SNIP (...) 1) LEGO Factory with a huge palette of parts and colors that lets you buy a model exactly to the piece, without having to buy any extra pieces. 2) Mindstorms creations with realistic-looking (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Great suggestions so far! I see trends happening, which I am more than happy to report back to TLG (although my opinions won't be reflected in the report). After reading the comments so far, I don't see quite as many "sets" or "themes" (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Globe model kit (18" - 24" diameter). Besides families puchasing these, I can envision one in every elementary school classroom, probably being rebuilt each year by the new class. It could even become an incentive for good behavior: "Every (...) (19 years ago, 23-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) 1) Bring back minifig packs for themes. I'm on my knees begging for this. What was so wrong with 5 or 6 bucks for 4 or 5 pirates? I find it infuriating that my KKII collection has more "named" good knights than mindless badies. Seriously (I'll (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Probably the first an easiest suggestion i would have is pick a brick from s@h then maybe copies of old and new plans for sale which would include a list of needed components to complete the model the plans are for, ( this would increase pick (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) a. I would like to see S@H sell grab bags of minifig parts. b. I would like to see some "building big" idea books. How to build a life size human head, for example. c. Speaking of idea books, a series of INEXPENSIVE paperback idea books called (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Hi there, (...) I was delighted to see this posting this morning. But I wanted to think about my response for a bit to make sure it didn't just end up as jibberish. :) One thing did cross my mind. From the description above I wasn't sure if you/they (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Theme buckets and tubs, such as space and castle. The closest I've seen was the not very impressive Star Wars bucket. Truly modular castle, town and space sets. You can expand your castle, town, space station by buying and adding the desired (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) • Get rid of the new grays & brown and bring back the old ones • Make some old gray pieces at least for Classic Space Legend sets • Make all the boxes with a yellow border, like they used to in the 1980's (not practical at all; just for (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) * How about some instructional and/or historical book/CD-ROM series? * All the instruction scans from a year or set of five years... * Master Modeler series... * How'd they do that? - Miniland * A David Macauley-esque look at LEGO from design (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Moonbase for sure. But that assumes that LEGO does something else firt (see below). (...) A non-Star Wars space theme! Where has that gone? Now that NASA is planning on going back to the moon, where is our Pre-Classic Space theme!?! That would (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Here are some of my wishes: Some sort of a way to get customized emails on the new sets available on S@H and new sets on sale. There is an email that gets send but it is too generic and does not contain specifics. It would be nice to have some sort (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| An idea not under these Qs: How about a loyalty card/scheme for shop at home? (...) Old grey/brown/dk grey!!! At least in some legends (to add some reasonability) Failing that some random old grey/brown elements (to use with the bricks). More (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Reissue 3800 "Ultimate Builders Set", 3801 "Ultimate Accessory Set" and (possibly) 9731 "Vision Command" as a single SKU'ed set. Folks that bought Mindstorms back when it was new (or even have purchased sets 2nd hand recently) really want to (...) (19 years ago, 24-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) New foliage pieces would be good: · Some kind of creeping ivy type stuff for attaching to buildings · Some new type of one-piece tree or shrub · Some new types of leaves for making trees For Service Pack/Bulk Pack ideas: · Tan Plates (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) 1. More large-sized ($150+) UCS / Model Team sets. For example: a life-sized Darth Vader bust (like the Darth Maul). (In fact, I was very surprised that such a set was not released this year, in conjunction with Episode III, which was all (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) <SNIP> Ideas for S@H 1. How about being able to buy piece bags from current sets, or maybe last years' / obsolete sets? This could be linked with the factory concept. 2. % discount / free postage for large bulk orders. 3. repackage option for (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Awesome responses, thanks to everybody who took the time to pass along their suggestions. I'm collating everything for submission early in the week. I don't know what (if any) response will come from LEGO about this, but I hope we all hear (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Put all of the Pick-a-Brick inventories online and keep them current. The stores will ship but we need to know what they have. PaBTrak is still vaporware and we AFOLs haven't stepped up to the challenge of keeping updated inventories online (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| In lugnet.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote: snip (...) Bring back classic light gray, dark gray and brown. Better yet, make a set like this (even if in the new colors): (URL) packs of minifigs like castle guys or vikings, for around $1 each fig. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) 1)A Batman License. Spider-man was ok, but Batman would rock. A Batmobile, Batplane, Batboat, etc. A $90-$100 Batcave set. Villians' lairs, Arkham Asylum, GCPD HQ with Comm. Gordon and a working Batsignal. Yeah, give me Batman. 2)A 'Lord of (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Return to the original colours, fist and foremost. How about theme- or colour-oriented bulk packs or buckets? Colour-oriented boxes like "Nature": green and brown parts, "Earth", with tan and greys, "Autumn", with reddish and yellowish tones. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) (URL) classic theme (Space, City etc) based buckets would be nice. (...) Gambling toy - i.e. Bionicle collectables. Yeah I know they are very common in the industry, and creates trade circles among kids. But you know we keep kids from casinos (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) A Greco-Roman theme. If anything, the old 1998 Erik Wilson Acropolis contest should be an inspiration for TLG: (URL) that TLG would need is to come up with a few column capitals (Doric Ionic and Corinthian), perhaps a 2x2x11 base + column (...) (19 years ago, 26-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| (...) We are still waiting on a classic space legend set (preferably with the "old" grays; yes one more for the classic-gray vote). Personally I would love to see a "classic-space" bucket that contains pieces and instructions to build several of the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Wholesale S@H: This would be a very good way to promote LEGO trains. Unlike most toys, model trains are not sold through big box stores. Hobby and small toy shops have a notoriously difficult time with LEGO because LEGO's retail distribution (...) (19 years ago, 27-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi What do you think LEGO would never do that you’d love to see? Please make ALL sets available in ALL countries. Trying to buy a set and finding out that it's not available in your country is very annoying. Please make some of the models available (...) (19 years ago, 1-Oct-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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