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(...) Hey, don't worry about it Tim. I can certainly understand where you're coming from. Besides, I probably shouldn't have just jumped in of the blue into a hot topic in a new group that suddenly. I've been in enough forums to know that well (...) (24 years ago, 24-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Well, here's semi-news which I wasn't too public about beforehand. Yesterday I got a tour of TLC's Special Events Dept. (aka the Model Shop) in Enfield. Robin Smith from their legal dept. met me there, and we discussed many things about TLC (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) They are seriously misinformed if they believe that. Everything I've heard, from parents, kids, numerous toy store employees at various stores have said that parents and kids unanimously *hate* juniorized sets. Sure they buy them anyway (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Yep, that's what I've heard too. The only way to really make much of a difference would be to get contact information for designers in Denmark and talk to them. I can try to do that, but no guarantees. It seems that when dealing with TLC, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:FzurCn.D5J@lugnet.com... (...) Really, (...) and it (...) heard, (...) said (...) them (...) no (...) believe (...) values as (...) more (...) windows, (...) old. If market research shows Lego (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) large (...) I thought of another good use for them although I haven't implemented it. You could use them as flippers for a giant fish-shaped submarine. Aquanauts II anyone? (...) A (...) great. (...) have no (...) in (...) I liked the color (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) as (...) The juniorization is a horrible thing. It takes away building experience from kids. Although these sets may be easier to build and may take away frustration, this gets rid of building experience that makes kids (and adults) good (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I couldn't resist a "me-too" here. If I had a single brick for every Insectisoid & UFO set, as well as every sorry town-junior fire station that I've seen on clearance...I would...er...have a lot more Lego than I do now! p.s., A month or so (...) (24 years ago, 25-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sooner or later, most sets go on clearance. Why is no one complaining about Adventurers, which are just as Juniorized as Insectoids? The Egyptian sets had pretty cool designs, but the Amazon sets were fairly lame, and most of the Dinosaur sets (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, I like several of the Amazon and Dino sets. 5976 is quite nice, I'll be using that temple in my Pirate Games, and of course the boat pieces are nice for making pirate ships (and that ship doesn't look that bad, though it could use a (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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A couple more thoughts and points: - For those BURP haters, the Aventurers sets actually use very few BURPS (5988 has 4, 5987 has 1) - Ok, so you get a million of those car bodies. I think we would be more accepting of that part if we didn't get so (...) (24 years ago, 28-Aug-00, to lugnet.general)
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