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Re: Where does the Life on Mars theme fit in to the LEGO universe?
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Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:45:55 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
> This may sound like a weird question but, if Life on Mars is indeed a LEGO
> Space theme, why is it not any place in LEGO Space? Even a link would be
> nice, such as one to Star Wars. If Life on Mars does not fit into LEGO
> space, where does it fit into in the LEGO universe? Is it a branch off of
> Space Port? I seriously doubt it, though the technology looks remarkably
> similar to technology of that time in the LEGO Earth history. My guess is
> that the Life on Mars theme predates even Classic Space (in the LEGO Space
> time line, not in real life) so I guess that Life on Mars is the first, at
> least in LEGO Space terms, space series.
My guess is it fits somewhere along the linewith UFO, although
it did come out aroundthe same time as spaceport, but I've seen
few links between those. I'm guessing their were early UFO
colonies. Just a theory there.
> Where does Alpha Team also fit into the LEGO universe? Actually, I do not
> believe that Alpha Team fits anywhere into the other LEGO themes but should
> be a seperate theme that is listed on the Genres or whatever section that
> lists the major themes of LEGO sets.
Good question. My guess is that it's a completely separate genre, perhaps
a lego approach to James Bond or MGS (metal gear solid).
> Galidor also deserves mention as do lesser liked sets. We are preserving
> the continuity of LEGO here, people, not being biased idiots favoring one
> set over another. Sure, some sets and product lines are horrible but we
> must do LEGO a service and show them all. LEGO looks to this web site as
> their chief source of information. We are also their future, whether we
> like it or not in life.
Okay, I'm saying galidor would perhaps go towards the action
figure range or licensed products section. I wouldn't classify it
in the same range as bionicle, because they both come from similar
but completely different angles, bionicle being more building
related.
> While we are on this subject, I thought that I would mention that we need
> to revamp the whole way that LUGNET is set up. I hate having to resort to
> looking through a Top View or Tree View map for a particular theme that is
> mixed up with a whole other bunch of little branches such as CAD drawing and
> off-topic subjects. I mean, it works nice for an index but I think that we
> need to be less biased and more truthful in here. We need to include more
> themes on the main page in order to keep traffic more freely flowing on here.
I guess the main page is more of a rundown on the whole scheme. That's
why we have the newsgroup page to check out other themes, but I guess
It wouldn't hurt to have a misplaces themes group, but then that
would be pretty conflicting, wouldn't you think.
> There are many things that the average person, such as myself, does not
> understand in LUGNET, such as the hatred of Timmy or of Town Jr. Why has no
> one raised a whimper about LEGO Creator or the elimination of LEGO Duplo or
> LEGO Primo? LEGO Duplo was the second biggest market in LEGO next to the
> other sets, yet no one seems to care about any of those things on here. Why
> have arguments over the silliest, most corny thoughts that a person could
> think just to get some twisted, psychotic hatred out towards a little chunk
> of ABS plastic? Come on, people, there are bigger fish to fry out in the
> world. Grow up and move on or be immature and be left behind.
I don't get the timmy thing, never have, never will, but I think the
hatred towards town jr. is basically because some fans long for the
intricity of sets back inthe eighties, as opposed to the parts
today, which are basically medleys of certain pieces fused together.
Don't get discouraged, coming from me, I've basically received the
brunt of arguments, but I think I'm starting to finally understand
all of this. Yeah, I do agree with you, though. I think some people
could be a bit less tense about things. To tell you the truth, I
rarely ever build with lego, and it's really not much a part of
my life compared to my writing, school or anime.
> I mean, yes, LEGO does indeed care more about cheap marketing ploys now than
> actually being concerned about fun back, say like about three or four years
> earlier, but we could always buy stock in LEGO. When a person owns stock in
> a company, we become a piece of the machinery of that company. When enough
> like minded people or a single person gets enough stock of the company, then
> we basically own the company. A really brilliant person could then cause a
> boycott and hurt the business of LEGO while at the same time own a lot of
> stock in LEGO. Of course, we could simply ask LEGO to be nice and allow the
> classic themes to return but in the end, our voice counts.
Yeah, it does. How many pieces of stock are in a company anyhow? Several
billion parts?
<<_Matt Hein_>>
Fellow lego enthusiast
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