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Re: MEGABLOKS site update with Pyrates info
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:59:44 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Mike Petrucelli wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Check it out
here.
Groovy stuff.
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Wow those are some really nice looking Playmobile sets.
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Oh really, Mike! Such cynicism ill-becomes you! 8^)
I almost typed cyanicism, which I guess is appropriate if you’re feeling
blue about all this.
To be sure, these new sets have some heavily juniorized, or at least heavily
specialized elements. For the price, I don’t think the piece counts are too
much worse than at least some of the Dragons playsets, so I’ll suspend final
judgment until I’ve seen them in person.
Frank Filz has, despite my snippiness, correctly
observed that the issue
isn’t simply juniorization but the overspecialization of part-style. Sure, the
weathered wooden staircase element might be nice on the deck of the Pyrate ship,
but it would look silly in a spaceborne vessel. Too bad MEGABLOKS doesn’t have
more generic equivalents of some of these cool but too style-specific pieces.
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Well hopefully they will make fig packs at least, I would definately pick up
some of those.
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I’m eager for that, as well. From the available pictures it appears that
they’ll have at least a few smaller sets in the $5 to $7 range, so maybe there’s
hope. The recent “Dragon Sages” sets (and the like) are a good example of this;
I hope MEGABLOKS tries something similar with Pyrates (and Marvel, for that
matter).
Dave!
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