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Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:27:51 GMT
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rsanders@IHATESPAMgate.net
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Nephilim wrote:
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> The buckets nowadays serve as a replacement for the universal building
> sets, and if you buy enough of them, you do get enough roof elements
> to do the same thing, but they seem to have an emphasis on building
> "zany" time-cruiser-looking things. A simple house-oriented bucket,
> with bricks primarily in one color, and enouth roof pieces to cover the
> house, so you could build a nice little structure using that bucket
> alone, would be wonderful. LEGO could still throw in propellers and
> wings and wheels and the other assorted things that make the
> freestyle sets "zany."
As a kid I never had Lego blocks (it was a long time ago). Instead, mum
used to bring me tall cylinders of 'American Bricks' (which now I find
seem to made by an Elgo company). These sets were primarily bricks,
doors, windows, & roof pieces. In fact, I cannot recall any pieces other
those. Seems like we have come full circle.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Ray
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| (...) for (...) as (...) Houses and other buildings -- this is something that the bucket sets could address. The first LEGO set I owned was a universal building set that had enough roof elements, windows, and doors to make houses, and, as a (boy) (...) (27 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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