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Re: Is "traditional" Technic being killed off?
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 19 Feb 2002 20:40:47 GMT
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Dave Johann wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Allan Bedford writes:
> > Which is nice if you can afford $120 plus sets. But what about the
> > kid who wants to get started in Technic but can't come up with that
> > kind of coin?
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> Simple. They have to suffer just like the rest of us lower middle
> class folk did when we wanted the larger sets. Save up the money-it's
> the only way to buy what you have your eye on.
Two problems:
1) A current problem with Technic (which even I can see just poking around
looking for Castle stuff) is that there are very few <$30 Technic sets
that are not some kind of Tech Play. If people have to shell out over
$100 to get started in a theme, I don't think they will[1]. Therefore,
there won't be people who want the larger sets[2], since they have no
experiece with Techic to begin with.
2) I don't think most kids are going to save up >$100 for a small toy like
Lego. Maybe a bicycle, maybe a video game system, but a small plastic
toy? Back in the misspent days of my youth I only bought sets that sold
for around $20. More than that is a lot of money to a child. From my
parents, I could perhaps anticipate a large set or two at birthdays and
Christmases, but if I wanted Lego during the rest of the year, it had to
come from sets costing $20 or less. There's a big psychological
difference between spending $100 on ten sets over six months and spending
$100 on one set all at once.
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TWS Garrison
tgarriso@math.purdue.edu
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/
[1] Mindstorms seems to be an exception. On the other hand, RIS sets seem
to be a lot more flexible than the current mainline Technic offerings.
[2] Trains has this problem as well. . .
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