This reminds me of some really old topic about Solek from back when the boards were new:
Thus, the only things that are truly objective are facts. For example, it is an objective fact that spaghetti is a pasta dish typically served with tomato sauce. It is subjective to say, based upon those facts, that it is a good food. Every person has their own unique taste buds. Some will say that the tomato sauce tastes great. Others will say that the tomato sauce tastes awful. Different people interpret the same objective facts differently.
Objectively, Solek is a set released in 2008. It has fragile joints, and is prone to breaking. It has a color scheme of white and gray, with silver pieces here and there. It has a unique mask. It has 14 pieces. Its play function is to attach to Kopaka. Those are all the objective facts that we have regarding Solek.
However, opinions based upon those facts, however, are subjective in their nature. It’s subjective to say that Solek’s color scheme is bland, because not everyone will interpret that fact the same. It’s subjective to say that Solek’s abysmal part count makes it a bad set, because not everyone will agree that a larger part count makes for a better set. It’s not even objective to say that Solek’s bad joints make him an inferior set, because as stated, not everyone takes apart their sets.
Let’s rephrase his statement, then: objectively, most parents buy the sets for their kids, and many kids buy them, simply because, to these people, they’re subjectively cool-looking robots. This is an objective fact.
~W12~
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