Subject:
|
Re: Thoughts on 1999 Train Sets
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.trains
|
Date:
|
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:30:51 GMT
|
Reply-To:
|
johnneal@uswest.&SayNoToSpam&net
|
Viewed:
|
1213 times
|
| |
|
|
You're right, it would be painfully ironic- I think Lego needs to get out into the
real world and see who actually IS the market for their trains- are there really
that many more 4 year olds than adult enthusiasts such as ourselves? I don't think
that Lego WANTS to acknowledge the fact that there are thousands of ADULT lego
hobbyists- it would detract from their "toy" image.
Matthew Bates wrote:
> John Neal writes:
> > I agree that variety is good, but details... One of legos strongest points, I • think,
> > is that the same piece can be a tail light, or a hamburger- is Denmark a great
> > country or what?!
>
> I don't think anyone here is going to argue that Lego isn't the coolest
> construction system, that's why we all love it. And we all know that Playmobil
> isn't a construction system at all [1]. But that wasn't the point of my
> argument which was that Lego have clearly demonstrated in the past their
> ability to produce realistic looking train sets, at least as nice as the
> Playmobil ones with the big adavantage over Playmobil that you can rebuild
> them into your own creations. So why have they started producing ugly trains?
> It would be ironic if they think they need to be simplified (in design, not
> difficulty) to appeal to younger children because the new RC Playmobil trains
> appear to be aimed at children as young as 4 whereas Lego by their own
> definition say theirs are for 8+. So Lego make dumber looking stuff for
> children 4 years older! Huh?
>
> Matt
>
> [1] Playmobil does now have the System-X building construction system but
> that is limited to buildings.
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Thoughts on 1999 Train Sets
|
| (...) think, (...) I don't think anyone here is going to argue that Lego isn't the coolest construction system, that's why we all love it. And we all know that Playmobil isn't a construction system at all [1]. But that wasn't the point of my (...) (26 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
|
13 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
