Cardboard

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 5:19 pm

http://news.lugnet.com/castle/?n=19059

Cardboard! It's cardboard!

I lost a lot of respect for LEGO today. Maybe this restructuring will solve problems like these.

--Anthony

Troy T. Moore · Post by **Troy T. Moore** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 5:43 pm

That is pretty sad. I had a bit of a fit when I was helping my son assemble his Spiderman set on Christmas morning. Got him the studios set with the bank. The front of the bank at the bottom is cardboard made exactly to look like bricks (didn't hear about this, or even imagine it possible before I bought it). From now on I will stare at the front of a box before purchasing. Unhealthy emotions welling up in me now just thinking about it......

Post by **Ye Olde Republic** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 5:44 pm

Just the shield though right? I guess that means the large shield in the minifig KK line will be cardboard too. Here's a question for LEGO: "How do you expect a cardboard piece to last for 20 years+?" I guess they aren't in this KK to make lasting fans, just a quick buck.

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I remember getting the vampire crypt and being dissapointed in it because of the cardboard backgrounds. I thought those would have been awesome 1x5x6 printed bricks.

Jojo · Post by **Jojo** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 7:01 pm

Hello!

SavaTheAggie wrote:I lost a lot of respect for LEGO today.

LEGO shouldn't reckon on my respect anymore, anyway. Now that I have seen the new grey tones with my own eyes.

Maybe this restructuring will solve problems like these.

The hope dies last.

Bye
Jojo

Post by **architect** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 8:24 pm

I agree with the previous posters. I think that this is an example of not following "only the best is good enough". Small children will play with these figures a lot and all pieces should last for a long time.

I have great hope that a return to the core system sets will be popular with parents buying sets for their children. It only makes sense to create products similar to those that the purchasers had when they were children.

Ben E.

Jedipawn · Post by **Jedipawn** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 9:25 pm

CARDBOARD??? how could lego make a shield out of cardboard? arn't they a plastic company? ohh nuts... I sence lego dieing. Not a fun feeling.

jedipawn

Sir_Marcellus · Post by **Sir_Marcellus** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 12:21 am

Cardboard is an OK building material . . . FOR A DISPLAY! LEGO IS A TOY! C'MON, LEGO, YOU'RE KILLING US, NOT TO MENTION YOUR BUSINESS!

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 4:12 am

This is by far the worst idea TLC has come up with, bad enough they made the big ugly knights to begin with, but cardboard... Not even at 75% off. TLC better hope other sets don't follow this trend, I'm not buying cardboard for my kids...

Will

Post by **rogue27** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:09 pm

How thick is the cardboard compared to... oh, the roof on Hagrid's Hut or Hogwart's Castle?

At least the 2004 Hagrid's Hut won't have that problem anymore.

David Girard · Post by **David Girard** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 3:37 pm

Terribly disapointing.

Children will not play long with a cardboard shield. They will be destroyed relatively fast. What did they expect ? Did they expect that parents would buy again the set because their child had broke their schield ? I'm not sure it will work. The only thing I see, is that parents will lost all respect they had to Lego until this.

Please Lego, make something ! People like us are solid fan, but they are others consumers who can destroy your reputation with thing like this.

Wake Up !

Since some years people start saying Lego become expensive. Now they start saying Lego made bad things (and they don't stop saying it's expensive).

I lost my words...
I still hope...

groovyd2001 · Post by **groovyd2001** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 8:06 pm

Thats horible the idea with cardboard shields first of all as all of you mentioned kids that play with them will brake it a few days and if they play with it alot all day it will most likely be wrecked even faster. And it won't go well with people that like to collect the lego stuff to make an army here is one side with plastic shields and a small group over there with cardboard sheilds, horrible i say. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

But thats only my 2.5 cents

GD

Post by **SavaTheAggie** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 9:40 pm

groovyd2001 wrote:Thats horible the idea with cardboard shields first of all as all of you mentioned kids that play with them will brake it a few days and if they play with it alot all day it will most likely be wrecked even faster. And it won't go well with people that like to collect the lego stuff to make an army here is one side with plastic shields and a small group over there with cardboard sheilds, horrible i say. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

But thats only my 2.5 cents

GD

Actually I believe the set review I linked to was discussing the large, 12 inch tall LEGO knights, not the minifig ones. I do not know if the new minifig shields are plastic or cardboard or other.

--Anthony

Post by **Ye Olde Republic** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:41 pm

I was tempted to pick up one or two of these to use their limbs for dragon limbs, but this cardboard thing is a good excuse to bricklink them instead.

Dan_BL · Post by **Dan_BL** » Sun Jan 11, 2004 11:42 pm

old_republic wrote:I was tempted to pick up one or two of these to use their limbs for dragon limbs, but this cardboard thing is a good excuse to bricklink them instead.

Save to keept the fire going, I wonder who on earth will buy these cardboard shields on BL?

Dada · Post by **Dada** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:31 pm

Hello with all

I have just a question: Anthony, how do you have make to have Danju (8770) ???

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