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Re: New Road Plates
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Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:55:53 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Michael Arrighi writes:
> In lugnet.town, Arne Lykke Nielsen writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In my local TRU in Copenhagen I picked up a new set of road plates yesterday:
> > 4108, 4109, 4110 and 4111. They differ from the usual green plates in having
> > no pavements, yellow lines instead of white, and the tracks are 20 studs
> > wide, leaving only 6 studs for the roadsides. The straight road plates have
> > drain gratings imprinted.
> > This must be the ultimate sign, that classic town sets will never return.
> > The roads are wider to match the JackStone vehicles, and indeed the pictures
> > on the packaging is solely JackStone. And JackStone 2002 sets are even worse
> > than the 2001 sets: I also bought 4615 for the wing plates, but they are
> > unusable, as they have integrated clips and 2x4 brick - bummer!
> >
> > regards from Denmark
> > Arne
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> Hi Arne,
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> Thanks for providing this information. I just saw the road plates you
> reference at the Mall of America Lego Outlet store here in Minnesota. I'm
> so upset that Jack Stone sets (and roads) have taken over those from classic
> town.
Would someone be willing to get pictures of these? I'm curious. I think
8-widers would appreciate these road plates since their trucks should also be
8-wide which don't fit on the older road plates very well. Even for 6 widers,
wider roads might be nice.
I actually think this is in its own way a good sign. It's a sign that TLC does
recognize that you need more than a bunch of vehicles to make a town. Once you
have roads, kids will expect buildings to put between the roads.
> I am begging TLC to please bring back the town/city theme instead of just
> throwing it away. I understand that Jack Stone serves an important function
> to introduce younger builders to bricks before they're ready for 'System'
> sets, but why not keep them and STILL have town kits as well? Please,
> please, please...
I wonder how many kids today who are the age to play with the non-juniorized
system sets actually build towns? In the toy stores, I see tons of town setup
toys for younger kids (many more than when I was a kid), but not much for older
kids.
Frank
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| (...) Hi Frank, Unfortunately I don't have a way to get pictures because I only access the internet at work. Hopefully someone else will be able to provide scans. (...) I never thought about it that way. Perhaps you're right, and maybe TLC WILL (...) (22 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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