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Re: Interview with LEGO at Toy Fair
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:54:51 GMT
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Duane Hess wrote:
> In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
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> > We all (and that includes LEGO) know that those pieces are there to represent
> > guns. I don't think that making little Star Wars guns is going to make any
> > real difference in how the sets are perceived by *anyone*- except maybe that
> > people will think they are slightly cooler.
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> Quite to the contrary. I would hope that they have gone back to their core
> values.
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> A distiction that I make (sort of a line in the sand if you will) is that
> pre-molded guns take no imagination to create, where the megaphone guns are
> a conglomeration of pieces taking imagination to build and use.
Just out of curiosity, how do you feel about the 'camera' piece being used
as a gun int eh Snowspeeder?
(Personally, I'd be a lot happier if they had used that piece rather than the
megaphones. Sure, it's out of scale, but so are the lightsabers - and it just
looks more like a SW rifle to me.)
J
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| Well, as a kid, I always used the camera that came with the Space sets as a big laser gun anyway. It was a delight to find that piece used just like when I was little. Of course, back then I'd attach pieces and tubes all over the camera to make it (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Quite to the contrary. I would hope that they have gone back to their core values. If pre-molded guns were to be included in the sets, I would have to boycott that theme, as I have done with every theme incorporating pre-molded guns to date. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Feb-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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