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 | Saskia van Doesburg |
When did you start building?
I started playing with LEGO bricks when I was a little girl. I remember getting the knights procession set as a gift, and also the great town sets of the eighties. Going through my childhood collection it seems my favorite theme was space, as I have an almost complete classic space collection. When my sister and I played together I built cars and furniture for her Barbie dolls. I don’t remember what else I’ve built, but I do remember being completely happy sitting on the floor of my room surrounded by my bricks and just building with them.
Why are you an AFOL?
When I was 27, I fulfilled a childhood dream and bought a LEGO train. This made me buy more and more sets and bricks to go with the train. I found out that LEGO bricks are the ideal material to build whatever you want, and that I can be creative and relax at the same time building my own creations.
How many hours do you spend building with LEGO?
It varies from 15 minutes to 30 hours a week. I spend a lot of time working on our community website, so sometimes building comes second.
What are your favorite building themes?
My absolute favorite theme is castle. Most of my MOCs are castle buildings, although most of them never make it to the galleries. Town comes next. For shows I mainly build town creations. I also build MOCs in a Victorian setting.
What do you like most about LEGO and their products?
LEGO bricks give you basic material to create something unique over and over again. The concept of creating your own buildings/cars/ships/ whatever and when you’re done break it down and start all over again
is very appealing to me. It never loses its value.
Five parts you would love LEGO to produce?
Farm animals (cows, pigs, sheep, etc.)
Female hats (classic hats as well as modern)
1x1 round tiles
Minifig accessories are always good (a folded umbrella!)
Anything in old grey and brown
What is like to be a female in the AFOL world, which is dominated by mostly by men?
I don't really think about it that way although I don't like the adult content some guys make, and I don't like those jokes. Seems like that is a guy thing. For the rest it gose that my ego is as big as theirs;)
What would you suggest to LEGO to make their products more popular to girls?
I don’t think pink is the answer. Produce more regular/generic town sets. Shops (how about a jewelry shop, a pharmacist, a florist, a supermarket, a bakery etc. etc.), town scenes, a school, a post office, a library, that kind of stuff. In castle you could do the same thing but then in a medieval way (give us town sets instead of fighting!).
I think girls like to build the same way boys do. Their mothers/aunts/ grandmothers just don’t want to buy them the evil looking killing undead army for their birthday. And I can’t blame them!
Is LEGO doing enough to promote their products toward girls?
I actually have no idea. I never see any commercials, but that’s because I don’t watch these TV channels I guess. Clikits went very well (it did, right?), so I think they do.
What would you like to see from LEGO in the future in relation to girls?
Picking up my suggestions from the questions above and produce general town sets that boys and girls like. Paradisa sets without the pink.
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