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croxiscroxis I am the walrus
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13442193/from/RS.3/[/url]

I still play with mine. Hell my bro and I even wrote a full lego wargame!

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  • EclecticonautEclecticonaut Elite Ranger
    The greatest toy of them all... sad thing that they have to cut costs.
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    I remember the spaceships I built out of hundreds of legos.. I didn't have that many of them, and used many parts from all kinds of different structures.. but still, it was cool and fun.
  • Data CrystalData Crystal Pencil Artist
    That's just too bad... with all the whatnot and strange designs they've been spewing out recently I'm not really surprised nor that sad, but I still have Lego to thank for some of my imagination and creativity having played with them a lot as a kid. Legos are darn expensive, but they're still just about the best toys out there for a kid to have. Bar almost none.

    I've sold all my legos years ago in various flea-marts and garage sales and sort, but I still keep one robot I thought up in '93 as a mascot. I now even have a camera, so maybe I oughta' dig it up from me' moving boxes... stay tuned.
  • Data CrystalData Crystal Pencil Artist
    [img]http://koti.mbnet.fi/cijk/RobskaA.jpg[/img]

    We had our own branch of robot wars back in the day as a kid with a couple of friends. This lad's a hardened veteran of many, [i]many[/i] battles. He's been broken down so many times that I probably still could be able to repair 'im back up by heart.

    [img]http://koti.mbnet.fi/cijk/RobskaB.jpg[/img]

    Still the most succesful out of my own designs and the one I'm most proud of. Even though it dates back 13 years. :)

    Some resemblance probably to Warhammer 40K Space Marines, Mechwarrior and Terminator, all which's designs I fell in love with as a kid.
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    Wow cool pics man! :cool:

    Man thats sad news. Really brings back memories, used to love lego so much. Always looked forward to those rainy saturday afternoons when I could tip my box up and start building stuff.

    Kids these days have a lot to learn about toys, it isn't all about Playstations!
  • TridentTrident Ranger
    I still have my ships (they are slightly torn apart) I'll throw them together when I get a chance and take pictures.
  • Entil'ZhaEntil'Zha I see famous people
    My sister-in-law's boyfriend just recently was one of the winners of the new york search to find a new employee for Legoland, he's got an impressive collection collection of legos

    he got to go out to Sandy Eggo California to build at Legoland, he ended up not getting the job out there, but perhaps that was for the best if they are laying people off... last hired, first fired...

    [url]http://www.legolandmodelbuilder.com/finalists_newyork.html[/url]

    he's the 2nd one down
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    We've really pushed our kids away fromusing their own imaginations, and pretty soon, we're going to reap the sad rewards. :(
  • shadow boxershadow boxer The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
    *ow*

    my inner child is bawling
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    You'd think there'd be a limit to how much downsizing can continue before everyone is at home sitting on their ass while managers try and figure out why their profit margins just aren't rebounding from the boost from payroll reduction...

    ...

    And so it continues...
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    I suggest everyone pick up the June 12 issue of Fortune and read the article in there about the logic behind this. It gives a very reasonable case, though whether or not their current tactic is the correct one....
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Something positive I've seen in the lego universe is the reintroduciton of builder kits, those without a specific final product and contain numerous extra pieces. It was those products that lego was founded on and the type of kits that drews me to legos in the first place.

    Jake
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    I very much understand what lego is doing, they have some harsh competition. Like the article said they are now focusing on their builder kits. What they need to do is somehow rebrand themselves to be something more adult while at the same time not make their products out of reach for young children. I think the new mindstorms may help but it is rather expensive.
  • Data CrystalData Crystal Pencil Artist
    I'm still waiting to hear on when Lego makes a deal with Battletech. :)

    Lego & Mechwarrior would be a match made in heaven. And having some 23" high models wouldn't be half bad either... ;)
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Also keep in mind that Lego had attempted (quite dangerously) to diversity without aim. That was NOT helping them, especially when their core audience is not promptly replenishing.
  • croxiscroxis I am the walrus
    So let me ask you all this. How would YOU fix Lego if you were in charge?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Build the factory out of technic.
  • shadow boxershadow boxer The Finger Painter & Master Ranter
    bring back the builder kits at full strength, foster design and innovation through Lego sponsored building competitons with prizes like Lego 'publishing' your design.

    Expand the mindstorms robotics range and get into hardcore education programmes. Lego Dacta was great.

    Sell Lego online, as individual components. There is a roaring trade in Ebay sales of individual components. Enable the consumer to design thier own kits and buy them.

    Use a much slicker design programme with ALL legos components in it. Enabling people to build a design on a computer and then hit 'buy' and have lego ship them the design.

    LOWER the freakin' retail price. One constant and perenial bitch from the consumer is price. Tight tolerance plastic injection moulding isn't as hideously difficult as it was, all Lego's competition is testament to that. there is no need for the ugly price point. If consumers are given the choice between a Lego product and a competitor which is only a few cents/dollars different, Lego's brand and quality will mean that they choose Lego.

    Lego needs to go for some more volume and drop the elitist price bracket. Everyone KNOWS they rock, they dont have to charge like Rolls Royce to be the Rolls Royce of thier industry.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    If they actually made a decent CAD program and sold parts individually for designs produced in it, I'd be in Lego heaven.

    As it is, their pathetic attempt restricts you to using pieces from "sets" that they produce, and you can't even mix and match sets without hacking the software.
  • AnlaShokAnlaShok Democrat From Hell
    My collection:

    [URL=http://borgknight.twistednode.com/Lego/]http://borgknight.twistednode.com/Lego/[/URL]

    I'm buying as much as I can!
  • AnlaShokAnlaShok Democrat From Hell
    Oh, yeah, the jewel in my collection:

    [URL=http://borgknight.twistednode.com/SD/]http://borgknight.twistednode.com/SD/[/URL]
  • Data CrystalData Crystal Pencil Artist
    That's one [b]Big[/b] kit. O_o
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    At the very least, we still have the non-lego LDraw and related CAD applications. Nothing is quite like an unlimited parts bin :-D
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    MOST impressive, AnlaShok!
  • AnlaShokAnlaShok Democrat From Hell
    I've been collecting the Classic Trilogy minifig sets since they came out. The SD was a gift from a consortium of friends, who caught me rather by surprise one year. It took about 12 hours of actual build time to put together.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    I saw some of the SD kits when I was in Singapore. It was so tempting...
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