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Re: LEGO Group and Disney Consumer Products Announce Building Sets Inspired by Pirates of the Caribbean
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lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:24:20 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, John P. Henderson wrote:
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I’m torn about this announcement. On one hand, I am not a fan
of the licensed Lego products. IMO, they limit the imaginary story and
characters, and thus influence creative building. Star Wars, though a movie
series that I love, is no exception, and I would much rather see Lego
produce more “generic” space themed sets. For PIRATES, my feelings are
similar - I fear that a licensed POTC theme would limit some creative
potential.
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What I always saw as a core problem with the Pirates theme is that you
basically get small ships, large ships, forts, and the occassional island.
That’s pretty much it. Ships are ships are ships are ships, and where the
Space subthemes had some very distinct hull designs, tall ships almost always
used the same large hull pieces, and it all basically boiled down to how they
trimmed the model. (snip).
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True, but similar comments could be made of any theme. Trains are trains are
trains, Castles are castles are castles. Yet for a fan of a theme, a greater
number of models of varying price-points is always welcome. The truth is, how a
tall ship is trimmed makes a notable difference, as it would have in the real
world. So if sail configuration is the only variation, it can still be worth it
to a fan of the theme. Also, like with Castle, Pirates could be so much more
than a few ships and islands. The recent (and arguably expensive) Medieval
Market set was an example of a “civilian” set for Castle. Pirates could always
do well with similar merchant ports... Though I don’t expect a POTC theme to
include such.
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Another thing to consider is that licensed themes, contrary to popular
griping, almost certainly keep costs down. ...(snip)... To me that says
that they either don’t know what they’re
talking about, or what they’re really trying to say is that they regret the
passage of time taking the primary market in a direction that’s different
from what they’d prefer to see.
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Good points, all. And I must confess to at least sometimes being in the latter
group.
-Hendo
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