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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 24 May 2000 18:31:26 GMT
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Mark Sandlin wrote:
> In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes:
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> > Building with LEGO is an *optional* activity. There's no way to *make*
> > someone play with LEGO. If LEGO sets are designed with a higher
> > requirement for learning to differentiate parts, then people who find that
> > activity unpleasant are less likely to enjoy building from LEGO sets.
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> So? Does that mean LEGO should pander to the
> lowest-common-denominator and the short-of-attention-span by making
> their sets build-by-color? Bah. I think long-time LEGO builders all
> possess a certain retentiveness that allows them to paw through piles of
> bricks for hours to build things. My brother didn't possess this
> skill/affliciton, which is why I inherited his LEGO along with my own. He
> was always really impressed with the things I built, and he played with
> them, but he never really created anything of his own.
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> I really don't think the people who bought the Millennium Falcon would
> have skipped over it because a few differently-sized bricks were of the
> same color. They bought it because it's the Millennium Falcon. They'd
> have bought it if it was composed entirely of gray pieces. The baby-blue
> bricks are inaccurate and unnecessary.... which was my original point.
This hasn't been mentioned yet, so I guess I'll throw in my $0.02. Personally,
I'd rather have all matching bricks for my MOCs, but if you look at the stuff
that some of the younger kids submit to the Lego magazine, they often are just
building things by the shap without even considering the color. I know I did
that. So it might even be that younger Lego builders like getting a bunch of
different colors. I don't know to whom Lego sells the majority of its
products, but I would imagine that their market research is generally focused
on the kids within the age ranges listed on the packages.
Toki
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| I think that depends on the kid. I got my first DUPLO set when I was 4. I built multicolored things then, sure. When I got the Alpha I Rocket Base in 1980 for my 6th birthday, I was really excited. I got a set of REAL LEGO! From then on, I was (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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| (...) Personally, (...) In reply, you build with what you've got. My larger projects as a child (sub- 13) were ambitious yet plagued with the "rainbow disease". I had many red and white bricks, followed by blue, yellow and finally black and grey. I (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) So? Does that mean LEGO should pander to the lowest-common-denominator and the short-of-attention-span by making their sets build-by-color? Bah. I think long-time LEGO builders all possess a certain retentiveness that allows them to paw (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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