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To whom it may concern: I was thoroughly disappointed by the lineup of building models made available for LEGO System in 1998 and 1999. Based on what I found out from other Lego fans on the Internet, The LEGO Group (TLG) released models with less (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) LEGO is Danish, not Dutch. Denmark, not the Netherlands. And, you'll find their standard response is "we do all our developement in- house, we do not accept designs from people outside the company"... (And since a good friend of mine worked (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) replica (...) have (...) Thanks for the information on the Dutch-Danish mix-up. However, The MD-11 is worthy of the classic Flight collection as is the Il-62M. (Think of a DC-9 with a second set of engines fused on the sides of the first two (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Where did you get this from, James? IMO, juniorisiation is more likely to have been prompted by the US market - children who have very short attention spans due to too much TV and too many video games. Actually they probably did it not because (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) less (...) our (...) European (...) Actually, THIS ( (URL) ) is where I got it from. Read the whole vignette and see if you understand where I'm coming from. (...) It is a shame and that is why I say they should re-release specific items, such (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Oh, I think you may be misinterpreting. The quote says "LEGO publicized the fact that these sets are intended for younger, less-experienced builders in their catalogs in Europe, but not in the U.S. The lack of explanation has turned off a (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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SO this is the piece you were referring to, James: (...) This is a bit ambiguous, and I read it to mean that TLG *publicized* and explained the rationale in catalogs in Europe but not in the US, not that the younger and less experienced builders (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The fact that LEGO bothered to explain it for the european consumers but not the americans has put James off. After reading James' posting I went and read that myself, and did not deduct the same as he. I see we are more agreeing about what it (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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