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Re: Millennium Falcon Opinion
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 24 May 2000 20:22:47 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Toki Barron writes:
> Mark Sandlin wrote:
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> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Toki
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 did not
allow lack of proper color to stop my creativity, I was rather forced to
create uniform/random colors or modualar color sections. It was not until I
came out of my dark ages that I was able to amass enough of any one color to
finish a project to my satisfaction. The big problem with color is that each
theme moves within a certain color scheme, when it is discontinued you've got
to follow a new theme. Space and Castle used to follow a strict color pattern
until the early 90's, now themes of color only have a two year shelf life.
Most kids cannot afford enough of a single color in a two to three year period
unless they discover clearance items. It has been my experience that most
moms and dads are unaware of clearances on LEGO (just us AFOLs) and consider
LEGO to be expensive. I think that sums up the rainbow problem, and any kid
that gets their creation in Mania Magazine ought to receive proper credit for
being creative enough to see past their limitations.
I would like to see LEGO go back to the old parts molds and colors and make
assortments of "classic" 1200 piece tubs with each older theme in mind.
Friends of mine with kids buy those idea books and their children complain
because all of the creations in them require special parts that they don't
have. Wouldn't it be great if LEGO could see fit to make buckets like that!
They would certainly hit a large target market of kids and finally (!) appease
us AFOLs. Apparently they are aware of this problem, I recently saw a
children's LEGO idea book that included Tech pieces and the writing, "don't
worry, these aren't parts you already have." Colors and parts are the number
one complaint, I'd say.
My $0.03,
Aaron West
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