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Re: Top 50 LEGO sets of all time
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Date: 
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:21:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, John D. Forinash writes:
In article <GA2rEJ.2u1@lugnet.com>,
Sybrand Bonsma <sbonsma@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
Thanks for this list Todd, it is really nice. Many shuttles in this list, but
what I found stranger was the difference between above sets 497 and 928. Both
refer to the same set, but there is some difference in rating. Does anybody
have a good explanation for this?

It's probably similar to why the Toyota Corolla always got a higher rating
than the Geo Prism, even though they were the same car built in the same
factory-- people percieve "Toyotas" as better than "Geos".

I suspect that in this case, it's people percieve "foreign" sets as being
better than "domestic" sets, but that's making the assumption that Lugnet
is more US-centric than it probably is. Another possibility is US users don't
like the 928 as much as their counterparts in the rest of the world like
their 497s...

Or more people don't know the set number, and said "I've got one of those"
to the first picture they saw...

James



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(...) *chuckle* From the looks of it, neither do I. 497 was the US number on the set, 928 was the international number. :) -JDF (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.general)

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(...) It's probably similar to why the Toyota Corolla always got a higher rating than the Geo Prism, even though they were the same car built in the same factory-- people percieve "Toyotas" as better than "Geos". I suspect that in this case, it's (...) (24 years ago, 13-Mar-01, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.general)

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