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Post by tania7424 on Aug 11, 2014 2:50:12 GMT
I buy the Friends sets for myself now, and DH and the boys buy them for me as gifts. We are definitely a Lego house. I want the Dolphin Cruiser and Heartlake High so badly. And yes, they do build fairly quickly. I think it's because they are more structure than moving vehicle type builds.
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Post by melanell on Aug 11, 2014 13:58:58 GMT
Tania, do you leave your sets assembled & displayed? My brother was just talking about how he sold his Lego sets from his childhood and how someday he wants a Lego room in the basement.....but without any Kragle, mind you. So we may be buying him Lego sets again in the future.
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grinningcat
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Aug 11, 2014 15:08:23 GMT
Post by grinningcat on Aug 11, 2014 15:08:23 GMT
melanell One of my favorite things is when a customer comes in asking for a non-LEGO set and I tell them it is made by another company. They immediately insist that it is a LEGO set. (Sometimes saying the internet said so.) I will explain a second time it's not and where they might be able to find it. I usually get the "You're an idiot and don't know your product" look. After that all I can do is smile and show them something similar. I got that when I worked for Disney. No matter how many times I would explain that the Tazmanian Devil, Betty Boop, Tweety Bird or (insert other non-Disney character here) was not available to us due to it being a different studio, I was the one who was wrong because it's a cartoon character thus a Disney character. I would smile outwardly and send them elsewhere and then go in the back and vent about the stupidity of some people. So I totally relate. As for the topic at hand, I think the LEGO sets targeted at girls are stupid. LEGO is supposed to emulate life, do we really need one more thing with a gender bias? The (ugly) pink girly sets could have been made much better if they weren't so obviously girly. Market to both sides and market equally. Enough with all the gender bias in toys. It's bad enough that we tell girls they can't play with boy toys and that boys can't play with girl toys. A toy is a toy for f***'s sake. Stop making them out to be some kind of indication of gender or sexuality.
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Post by tania7424 on Aug 11, 2014 16:46:56 GMT
Tania, do you leave your sets assembled & displayed? My brother was just talking about how he sold his Lego sets from his childhood and how someday he wants a Lego room in the basement.....but without any Kragle, mind you. So we may be buying him Lego sets again in the future. I do. Probably why I don't have the Dolphin Cruiser or Heartlake High yet. Where am I going to put them. As it is we have all of DH's Star Wars sets all over the place.
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bsn22
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Aug 12, 2014 14:08:02 GMT
Post by bsn22 on Aug 12, 2014 14:08:02 GMT
My son really wants the Dolphin Cruiser but won't admit it. I am wondering why it couldn't be teal instead of pink and purple. Hopefully with the gigantic response from the sale of the scientist girl sets they will start a new direction.
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Post by beth44 on Aug 12, 2014 14:26:22 GMT
I really like the "girl" Legos. They are definitely expanding the themes, but face it, most girls do like the bakery, cruise ships, and the pet shops.
Problem is, other than some very basic Lego sets, you can't get a lot of just generic pieces to build, and even then, they don't have that many pieces to get creative with. Most of the Lego sets are very specialized and very Boy oriented. Ie. Lego city, Star Wars, Ninjago, Chima. There are very few female characters, except a couple of girl Jedi and Princess Leia, and a girl policeman. Little girls usually want girl characters, so they buy the pink sets. When my sisters and I were kids, there were no girl characters, so we just used a sharpie to color girl hair on them. But if I had the option of a girl set I would have gotten it.
I'm very excited about the girl scientist sets. I would have loved them when I was a kid. But even better would be a big set (like 800 pieces), of just mixed blocks to do whatever you want, with a girl and a boy character.
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Aug 12, 2014 14:35:01 GMT
Post by clarita on Aug 12, 2014 14:35:01 GMT
My DD (8yo) showed zero interest in Legos until they came out with Lego Friends. She would look at the Lego aisle and dismiss it as boy toys and I think that's partly because they weren't just basic building blocks - all the sets were Star Wars, Ninjago, etc. which didn't appeal to her at all. She definitely leans towards pink and purple and girly stuff so I am sure the colors were attractive to her but she also likes building and then playing with the Lego friends characters like she plays with dolls.
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Post by mandolyn9909 on Aug 12, 2014 16:22:08 GMT
I think they need to be more gender neutral. My dd is/was not interested in lego until the lego movie came out and she loved the lego movie sets. They are a great mix of boy girl themes. I wish there were more sets like this one. lego set. This was one of their favourite sets from the movie. Both DS' loved it as well. My kids also love playmobil which I think in general is much more gender neutral.
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