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Re: Call me a Lego purist if you will but...
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Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:45:27 GMT
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While I agree that the Technic sets of late are slightly dumbed down from
previous advanced sets I don't think we can condemn TLG as a whole. It
seems that the ingenuity that went into sets like 8880 is now being spent on
Mindstorms. And you have to admit that the whole Mindstorms concept
completely blows away the complexity in sets like 8880 and 8480, among others.
And while I agree that Throwbots and Bionicle are not Technic and that I
want more BIG BLACK BEAMS!! thank you, I do like some new parts, like the
long studless beams:
http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=32278
Not every part has to have studs.
However there is one set of parts in the original post that I especially hate:
http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/registry/misc/misc_3.html
Come on, Lego, there must be a better way to add shape and form to models?
IMHO,
Bob
In lugnet.technic, Andrew Bissell writes:
> Any guesses on how much money The Lego Group would make, overnight! if they
> re-released the JCB set, the old red tractor or the original test car or
> indeed any of the many other fantastic technic sets there used to be?
>
> I used to have these sets as a young lad but as you do when your young you
> play with something till it breaks or goes missing or finds itself tied to
> the back of your grifter (bike). Now I am an older lad and I have a lot of
> spare cash every month from a very good job. TLG are you listening. Why
> don't you spend the next 4 years re-releasing one older set every month.
> Additionally to making us oldies happy all those who were not around at the
> time can now have the great pleasure of beams with bumps.
>
> I imagine people have posed this question in the past so have The Lego Group
> ever made a statement as to why they won't re-release sets. Have they ever
> said 'well you see we just don't like making money'.
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> Do others want the old sets re-released, do you think it would be worth
> starting a web campaign, is there an e-mail address we could all bombard
> asking the same thing? Should we phone Greenpeace?
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> Best Regards
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> Andrew
> http://www.andrewbissell.com
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> In lugnet.technic, Scott Sanburn writes:
> > To All,
> >
> > > We need a new group, lugnet.technic.hateallsetssince1998
> > >
> > > I can understand people who don't go for the
> > > action-figury sets, they are
> > > pretty darn untraditional for Lego, but to disregard all
> > > these fun sets just
> > > because they aren't all boxy?
> >
> > Well, speaking as someone who is seeing decline of sets in
> > all themes, from town to TECHNIC sets, I think I can
> > understand the frustration. Throwbots and Bionicles are not
> > really what I think of as TECHNIC sets, and th econtinuing
> > development of sets of this nature makes me wonder of the
> > direction that TLC seems to be making. Sometimes it looks
> > liek they see light, other times not.
> >
> > As for fun, it depends on who the user is. I thought
> > Throwbots were boring, and Bionicles don't do anything for
> > me either. But thats me.
> >
> > Scott S.
> > --
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