Comments on: Latest Power Miners image [News]

By: GEHE

GEHE — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:34:30 +0000

I don’t much much mind the lime green but the orange is just ugly!!!

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:11:44 +0000

@ Gambort. I think the differences in opinions stems down to the differences in customers/fans. I believe you and I are very much the type of people that would by the set simply because of a color or type of piece included, whereas a lot of these other commenters are the types that buy them specifically for the playability of the actual set. In my case, unless it’s a Star Wars set, I’ll only buy sets for the pieces so I can build my own things, even with the Star Wars sets I prefer to give them my own touches or even remake them all together.

By: Gambort

Gambort — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:46:06 +0000

Curtis> “and a whole lot of juniorized madness!”, “huge useless prefab pieces!” are clear cut examples of ignorance. These are not juniorised. They’re not even close to it.

I admit I was interpreting the reasons people didn’t like the lime. Maybe I was wrong, maybe you were. It’s all interpretation for either of us. The people who complained about it will know the truth and it’s them and their potential cohorts I was aiming at.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:03:29 +0000

@ Ryan. In the context I used it, since always ;)

@ Gambort. “Curtis. No-one said that disagreement or dislike was ignorant. I said a lot of the comments were ignorant.” You are right, no one said anything about disagreement or dislike being ignorant, including myself, so I’m not sure why you’ve directed that at me.

I just don’t see how anyone had an ignorant opinion on this thread. Some people don’t like the green color, so what, that isn’t ignorant… Maybe the fact that some people haven’t ever seen a green construction vehicle is ignorant, but I don’t think that is the case, a lot of people just don’t like the color. I happen to love it. Some people think the sets look very childish, that’s not ignorant either. Some don’t like the larger mold pieces… If someone doesn’t like it, let them not like it, don’t get your panties all in a bunch because you’ve got a different opinion.

I like the wheels… they look fun. I’ll buy a few of them just for the color. As a product from TLC, I think this is behind the curve when compared to what else they have out right now.

By: Brickule

Brickule — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:59:01 +0000

Wow, I didn’t really like these before, but now that I see the rock monsters and crystals, I will have to get some now. I need LOTS of crystals and rosk monsters for a castle movie.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:53:32 +0000

Oh, and Curtis, since when does “none of us” mean “all of us”? ;)

By: David

David — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:46:58 +0000

The car base was huge and had no versatility is my point. It was massive and just massive. I love the set, but it was made up of very few pieces.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 03:04:39 +0000

I have the two biggest vehicles. I guess I was referring more to the drill and the versatility of the car base than to the bucket thing and the brown “windshield”.

By: David

David — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:50:46 +0000

Ryan how many od the RR sets did you own? I had the smaller ones and the $30 set had a HUGE piece for a base for the wheels. Now that I think about it I gave it to a friend for some science thing and never got it back.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:44:08 +0000

I don’t think they’re that juniorized, actually; It’s just the Technic and the color CLASHING (I don’t mind the colors themselves) that irks me. It won’t matter, though, after I take them apart. And I’m sure that any good builder could find a use for a giant drill (seashell? Skyscraper top?) and a blue helmet.

…And I never really thought that RR was that juniorized, either. The prefab parts were small(ish), in appropriate colors, and with enough unused connections to facilitate easy incorporation of those parts. They’re nothing compared to things like this: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=47992

By: Gambort

Gambort — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:45:15 +0000

You may want to read more carefully, Curtis. No-one said that disagreement or dislike was ignorant. I said a lot of the comments were ignorant. They were and I gave examples of why they were. Neither did any of us say that AFOLs were a unified force.

Less talk talk and more think think.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:28:34 +0000

Much better than this:
http://www.brothers-brick.com/2008/09/04/first-pictures-of-power-miners-theme-news/

By: Johnboy

Johnboy — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:17:05 +0000

Why lime green Lego, I mean over time we will find a use t=for that color woha, I just got a crazy idea to build with lime green holy $#!

By: Mad Physicist

Mad Physicist — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:17:12 +0000

I’ve written it elsewhere and I’ll write it again. The theme doesn’t really appeal to me. Few themes do, which is not surprising since I’m not a member of the target audience (boys aged 7-14 apparently). That said, I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with these sets as such. Underground construction equipment tends to be brightly coloured and I for one can do with lime green and more orange parts. I don’t really understand all the very negative comments.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:30:22 +0000

wow, the really big digging machine looks awesome. My only gripe is that the treads appear to be rubber instead of the new links… oh well, that can be changed.

As to new molds, as far as I can see there’s only 3 new ones (if you don’t count the rock monsters, which I don’t). On the chrome crusher I count 8 new molds at the time, not including minifig accessories or the rock piece.

and can you get more juniorized than this?
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/30295