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Re: Cut off the dying vine
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In lugnet.underground, Jon Furman writes:
> Hey, does anybody out there even care about the rock raiders? I mean the last
> post in this forum was three weeks ago, and he was looking for hats to make
> wild west items. I hope that all of the R&D that went into this whole Rock
> Raider system of Books games and toys was worth it, because TLG has killed off
> systems (Pirate, Wild West, Etc..) that were way more popular than this. Go
> to your local toy retailer, and look what you find.... Lots of Rock Raiders
> sitting on the shelves. Maybe the kids like them, but they aren't buying
> them. Jon
The cost per piece in the Rock Raiders sets is higher than for any other theme,
and the number of juniorized parts and SPUDs is in general quite high. I
suspect that parents balk at the former, and both AFOL and discerning JrFOL (who
would constitute the majority of kids buying their own Lego) balk at the latter.
--
John J. Ladasky, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305
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| (...) Personally, I balk at both. (I could be considered as a JrFOL, but I like to flatter myself to think that my POV is more like an AFOL's. :-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.underground)
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| Hey, does anybody out there even care about the rock raiders? I mean the last post in this forum was three weeks ago, and he was looking for hats to make wild west items. I hope that all of the R&D that went into this whole Rock Raider system of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.underground)
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17 Messages in This Thread: ![Cut off the dying vine -Jon Furman (21-Apr-00 to lugnet.underground)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/246.gif) ![Re: Cut off the dying vine (or Rock Monster clan) -Chris Maddison (22-Apr-00 to lugnet.underground, lugnet.castle)](/news/x.gif)
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![](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/268.gif) ![The lone dissenter -Dave Johann (22-Apr-00 to lugnet.underground)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: The lone dissenter -Aaron West (22-Apr-00 to lugnet.underground)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: The lone dissenter -Dave Johann (17-Jun-00 to lugnet.underground)](/news/x.gif) ![](/news/46.gif) ![Re: The lone dissenter -Frank Filz (17-Jun-00 to lugnet.underground)](/news/x.gif)
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