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Re: Galidor, for good or bad
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Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:39:32 GMT
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UUGH!!
A visit to this site gave me a worm virus. I'll never go back!
Rose
"Jonathan Lill" <jonathanlill@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Lego.com now has a page for Galidor and they are updating it apparently in • a
> lead up to the Toy Fair. They started with the large picture of character
> silhouettes that we saw in a winter catalogue and day by day they seem to
> be filling them in. So far you can see what four of what the characters • look
> like:
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> www.lego.com/galidor/default.asp
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> If you read through some of the site at www.galidor.com you can find some • of
> the premise. A professor, and some kids, find a way to enter a separated
> dimension in a ship (this is the large round central shape in the • silhouette
> picture, with an open hatch) and meet all these wacky aliens. The aliens,
> however different looking, are able to switch limbs and appendages with • each
> other, an action the show calls glinching.
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> So when you look at the Lego figures think that most of the limbs are
> detachable and interchangeable, I expect this to be done through technic
> friction pegs. I think most importantly that this product line should not • be
> compared in any way to the Lego system or Technic or any other brick-based
> line. Rather we should compare it to other action figure lines and TV
> show-based products and see if it rises above its competitiors in design,
> quality of manufacture, inventiveness and playability. If it is better • than
> everyone else in these ways, I think it can be judged a success. The Lego
> corporation should not be criticized for attempting to grow by expanding
> into fields like action figures or non-brick related areas. Only if it • does
> so badly shoud we worry.
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> From the pictures available, the figures look well designed and solidly
> built and I might want to own some. Another question I have is whether • they
> are going to be boxed and requiring assembly like traditional Lego sets or
> whether the are going to be bubble carded like traditional action figures.
> My bet is on the bubble card as I think that Lego will want to distance • this
> from their bricks to emphasize that it is a new direction for them.
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> Truly I think this is the beginning of a new era for Lego, for good or • ill.
> The first time they are master licenser for a product.
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>
> Jonathan L
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| (...) The galidor website does have a virus-like appearance, but I have a very much up-to-date virus scanner that didn't get triggered. What makes you think it gave you a virus? --Bill. (25 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002)
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| Lego.com now has a page for Galidor and they are updating it apparently in a lead up to the Toy Fair. They started with the large picture of character silhouettes that we saw in a winter catalogue and day by day they seem to be filling them in. So (...) (25 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.year.2002)
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