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Re: The realization of juniorization sets in...
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:05:07 GMT
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Paul Davidson wrote:
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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 with a few very large, simple plastic pieces that
> have no other use whatsoever. Yikes.
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 it wasn't made of big road sections. Those
crane legs would disintegrate the first time you touched the crane if
they were made of bricks. The only real gratuitous piece of
juniorization is the 2x4x3 bricks in the road support towers.
I just hope there is a service pack for the road sections, and that they
add intersection pieces (a wider curve radius would be extremely neat,
but probably won't happen).
--
Frank Filz
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 | | Re: The realization of juniorization sets in...
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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)
| | | Re: The realization of juniorization sets in...
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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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| | The realization of juniorization sets in...
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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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