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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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lugnet.starwars
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Mon, 22 May 2000 21:15:45 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mark Sandlin writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes:
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> > 'scuse me? I thought kids were supposed to have *fun* with LEGO first, • not
> > suffer through character-building exercises.
> >
> > But I tend to agree with Fredrick's explanation, anyway. The fewer
> > part-color combinations there are, the simpler (cheaper) the packing
> > process is for TLC. They've got to set up a different feeder for each
> > part-color, so if there are fewer combinations, that's fewer feeders, and • a
> > cheaper packing line.
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> > Steve
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> Scuse me? Since when was building things out of LEGO considered
> "suffering?" I sure wasn't "suffering" when I was a kid and got my 6980
> Galaxy Commander... I was thrilled! It was the biggest spaceship of the
> LEGO lineup at the time! And look, it's primarily made from blue and
> white! Even when I mistook a 2x2 slope for a 2x3 slope and had to go
> back a few steps to fix it, I still wasn't "suffering".
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> Why not make it REAL easy and just fill all the packages with POOPs?
> Then we won't have to make the li'l youngsters suffer through the agony
> of having to assemble all those little, different parts. It'll be lots cheaper,
> too!
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> We sure wouldn't want anyone to have to use their brains... that might be
> HARD.
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> Come on, man. Let's give kids a bit more credit for their intelligence.
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> ~Mark
Well-said. Kids don't suffer for being asked to use their brains and develop a
few problem-solving skills. IMHO, sets should be designed with attractiveness
in mind (and, in regards to SW, with accuracy as well); who cares what color a
child's MOC's are when he/she is just sifting through the bricks?; But, I think
that challenging a kid to follow-through with a model design is a good
character-building exercise. I have a nephew who had "I can't do it, will you
do it for me?" syndrome because he had low self-esteem. I started walking him
through the steps on some Lego sets, and pretty soon he learned that he could
carry a project through from beginning to end - it helped him see his goals,
meet those goals, and build confindence. Anyway, the same could have happened
if the X-Wing we put together had been color-mismatched, but having pieces of
the same color develops an eye for detail.
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| (...) not (...) a (...) Scuse me? Since when was building things out of LEGO considered "suffering?" I sure wasn't "suffering" when I was a kid and got my 6980 Galaxy Commander... I was thrilled! It was the biggest spaceship of the LEGO lineup at (...) (26 years ago, 19-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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