Must-See TV for Legostar fans

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 4:48 pm

Check it out, May 8 on Cartoon Network:

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/promos/20 ... index.html

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:17 pm

Awsome!!!

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:26 pm

*dies* I really don't get this crazy commercialization thing lego has been doing for the last couple years. I liked seeing little lego harry potter legos and star wars legos, but video games where you are a little lego luke skywalker in a little lego x-wing fighting little lego tie fighters? why not just buy x-wing the game? meanwhile lego has been "dumbing down" some of their original toys. have you seen the little palm trees? you used to be able to put them together piece by piece, and then you could shape it as you wished. now it just comes in two pieces: the green part and the brown part. lego shouldn't dumb itself down for stupid American children, it should continue to produce the great product we all grew up and love!

Stinkywigfiddle · Post by **Stinkywigfiddle** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:23 pm

grabmygoblin wrote:have you seen the little palm trees? you used to be able to put them together piece by piece, and then you could shape it as you wished. now it just comes in two pieces: the green part and the brown part.

They're not flexible any more? I still have some of the old palm trees. Though a couple of the leaves have broken.
I made a really long one.

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:46 pm

grabmygoblin wrote:*dies* I really don't get this crazy commercialization thing lego has been doing for the last couple years. I liked seeing little lego harry potter legos and star wars legos, but video games where you are a little lego luke skywalker in a little lego x-wing fighting little lego tie fighters? why not just buy x-wing the game? meanwhile lego has been "dumbing down" some of their original toys. have you seen the little palm trees? you used to be able to put them together piece by piece, and then you could shape it as you wished. now it just comes in two pieces: the green part and the brown part. lego shouldn't dumb itself down for stupid American children, it should continue to produce the great product we all grew up and love!

AMEN!

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:32 pm

[AlmightyPyro] wrote:
grabmygoblin wrote:*dies* I really don't get this crazy commercialization thing lego has been doing for the last couple years. I liked seeing little lego harry potter legos and star wars legos, but video games where you are a little lego luke skywalker in a little lego x-wing fighting little lego tie fighters? why not just buy x-wing the game? meanwhile lego has been "dumbing down" some of their original toys. have you seen the little palm trees? you used to be able to put them together piece by piece, and then you could shape it as you wished. now it just comes in two pieces: the green part and the brown part. lego shouldn't dumb itself down for stupid American children, it should continue to produce the great product we all grew up and love!
AMEN!

And in the same vein, in a way I'm disappointed to see such specialization in Legos nowadays. There's something to be said for imagination and creative thinking in creating Lego things with nothing but simple multi-colored blocks. And the simple smiley faces they had, as opposed to all the features they have now.

Oh, wait...did I say disappointed? I meant bitter and jealous for not having such cool stuff when I was a kid.

Telecoda · Post by **Telecoda** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:42 pm

My kids "love" the lego video games, not my bag though.

I agree about the specialisation of the brick too. Not like the good ole days, where you could build a rocket ship out of a multitude of colour rectangular bricks.

On a strange note I discovered a Professor Snape lego figure in my freezer at the weekend, damn kids!!

Turi · Post by **Turi** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:44 am

LEGO is in serious financial troubles, but their new CEO J

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:34 am

grabmygoblin wrote:why not just buy x-wing the game?

It's a matter of the lego star wars games being the only good star wars games out right now. Assumably those who are buying would find the x-wing game outdated, I think it's 5 years old now, or wouldn't even know it existed.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:07 am

well legos is a corp after all and like they say what ever makes money

Turi · Post by **Turi** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:10 am

Oh yes, but it seems that the overspecialization did not make money, so they want to go back to basics. Or at least that's what they say.

Corgan_dane · Post by **Corgan_dane** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 8:54 am

The lego Star Wars game rocks.

I've been playing it for days.

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:43 am

It's official: Legostar is slowly taking over the media!

I agree with the lego thing as well, even if I'm too young to remember 'unspecialised' Legos. (The first I had were Fabuland and some pirates thing). Even then, I did have a bucket of plain old blocks and windows, and beside the Belville (hey, I'm a girl after all), those were clearly the best since you could build absolutely anything with them.

Turi · Post by **Turi** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:57 am

"Velkommen til Belville, Belville, Belvile"

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:22 pm

corgan_dane wrote:The lego Star Wars game rocks.

I've been playing it for days.

I heard lego star wars was pretty good.. *wants to play it actually*

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:24 pm

TURI wrote:"Velkommen til Belville, Belville, Belvile"

"Jeg har en ide - jubiii!" Damn, now it's IN MY HEAD.

Col · Post by **Col** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:44 pm

I can't wait to try out the Lego Star Wars video game. That looks like it'll be a ton of fun.

Telecoda · Post by **Telecoda** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:36 pm

Ida wrote:
I agree with the lego thing as well, even if I'm too young to remember 'unspecialised' Legos. (The first I had were Fabuland and some pirates thing).

It used to be made of wood in my day.

I'm to young to remember the early stone based sets though

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:42 am

::laughs evily:: Yes, soon I shall control all of the threads on the forums!!!!

Seriously, I completely agree with both some of new specialization being good (a la interesting heads and new hair and all that suff) but I'm really sick of those giant ready made peices, there is an extent to which some of them are good, but come on! And now the fleshcolored people from the movie legos, bleh, soon the lego race wars shall begin... and while I'm not entirely sad that they've slightly changed the shades of some of the brick colors I wish they would still be putting out all the old colors too. I really could go on and on about this, but most of you already know how much I can go on about Lego...

Edit: Oh and I'm tivoing that thing on cartoon network... thanks for the heads up.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:40 am

...so the lego star wars game is good? I dismissed it based on principles... NO MUST RESIST THE CUTE!!!