Post by Dumbledork on Dec 19, 2014 13:10:57 GMT -5
Even the "girl" Lego Junior set is crap compared to "boy" version.
I wanted to get my niece and nephew each a big box of Lego Junior and since they only have two big sets in that line, I figured I'd get those. Once I started looking at the girl one though, I realized how crappy and boring it would be compared to the other one.
I bought her a set from the Lego Creator line instead.
I would really like a Lego Disney and Friends video game though. As long as it was actually fun like their Batman and HP games anyway. DD would flip.
Clearly I (and my girls) are their target market, because my girls love them, and I love that they do. They aren't interested in superhero or even basic Legos. I mean, sometimes, very rarely, they'll build towers or houses with the bricks, but really what they love is building the sets and playing with them like dolls. The gender stereotyping or disparity doesn't bother me because it gets my girls playing and building with Legos when otherwise they wouldn't. Sorry to the rest of you for being the very reason Lego Friends exist.
My DD1 is like this (and she has access to plenty of my son's lego city and superhero sets). Don't feel bad, I don't!
Yeah, I'm actually not bothered by the divisions either. I remember the HUGE backlash when the Friends sets were first introduced. Lego explained that it realized the huge disparity in genders playing with its sets (pre-Friends), so it did extensive market research and found that girls -- GENERALLY -- prefer to have story lines and characters to build with, and not the characters that were already on the Lego market. Hence, Lego Friends. People can bitch and moan all they want about gender divisions, but Lego has the research metrics -- and the success to back it up.
My DD1 is like this (and she has access to plenty of my son's lego city and superhero sets). Don't feel bad, I don't!
Yeah, I'm actually not bothered by the divisions either. I remember the HUGE backlash when the Friends sets were first introduced. Lego explained that it realized the huge disparity in genders playing with its sets (pre-Friends), so it did extensive market research and found that girls -- GENERALLY -- prefer to have story lines and characters to build with, and not the characters that were already on the Lego market. Hence, Lego Friends. People can bitch and moan all they want about gender divisions, but Lego has the research metrics -- and the success to back it up.
They could have made story lines and characters without dumbing down the buikding part of it.