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| | | Sanjay, <tongue was firmly in cheek for the duration of this post> I would hope so, I was trying to keep my innards from exiting. :) (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | Re: Thank Goodness for Town Jr —Sanjay D'Souza
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| | | | Scott Edward Sanburn wrote in message <370DEF0B.C8AFFE61@a...ng.com>... (...) ;) ...I get that feeling everytime I see the Town Jr sets on the shelves of my local toy shop. I'm amazed at how large the boxes have become and on speaking to the (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Thank Goodness for Town Jr —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) Ya, what's up with that? Adventurer's boxes are bigger too, but it seems to me (maybe because of color or something) that Space Port stuff is even bigger. It's not like those smaller sets have plastic trays. Maybe all those bigger special (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Thank Goodness for Town Jr —Lee Jorgensen
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| | | | (...) Hmmmm ... when I got the SW sets, all of them were of 'normal' depth. The boxes are about the same size as before ... Is it just a coincidence? -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto:jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Thank Goodness for Town Jr —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | I would guess that the reason is like all other puffed up packaging: Trying to make up for shoddy and ill-supplied products. (Half a box/bag of air EX: Cheezits, Doritos, etc.) Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Thank Goodness for Town Jr —Mark de Kock
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| | | | | In lugnet.dear-lego, Lee Jorgensen writes/wrote/has written: (...) Nah, not coincidence. Selective usage of boxes: if the model is crapp, the box has to make up for it (thus getting larger and larger). When the models are OK, the box doesn't matter (...) (26 years ago, 12-Apr-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Thank Goodness for Town Jr —Jesse Long
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| | | | Lee Jorgensen wrote in message <3711FFC4.6703EB7F@u...st.net>... (...) And the S@H boxes (at least the ones with three languages) are sometimes even thinner than standard. Maybe it's the American infatuation with size. Kind of like with drinks (and (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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