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Well, I walked into Zellers last night and saw the big town set with the elevated roads for the first time. I almost gagged to see how juniorised the set was -- it doesn't even look like Lego on the shelf, it's much more like some Playmobil clone (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't know, this set is still very much LEGO. Sure, it is a little juniorized, but the biggest parts pretty much need to be that way to be useable, without the set being a $200 set. How many bricks would it take to make that roadway work if (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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True, it would have been an expensive set otherwise, but here's what I first saw when I looked at the box: Several large road pieces with no studs. Large one-piece road support POOPs. An enormous 1-piece crane support POOP. A large 1-piece (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) more (...) that (...) $80 for this set is riduiculous. (...) SOmehow I doubt it. Dear lord, when will we learn? (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) first (...) These do actually have some studs, though it would perhaps have been nice if they had studs along the whole length of the wall (though said studs would be weird, and not necessarily usefull on (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Frank Filz (<386BD713.6113@mind...ring.com>) wrote at 22:05:07 (...) I'm with Paul on this one. The first thought that went through my head was 'Playmobil'. I've expunged most of it from my memory now, but the image of a single (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Frank Filz (<FnL5Ar.4q6@lugnet.com>) wrote at 03:20:12 (...) Let's not go there :-) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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<SNIP> (...) of (...) Another (...) I would like to have seen this piece (and the Mixer) made from several sections, so that it could be expanded or compressed to make different size models. ( Like in the good old days on the 378 (farm tractor and (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It's not actually as bad as it looks. The click hinges on either end of the digger arm make the movement quite good AND you get THREE extra digger arm sections (of three different lengths) on the set which are not in any of the main models, (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You mean they don't insane/psycho/possessed? That's good -- judging from the box, these are not minifigs I want to have handling heavy equipment. Steve (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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