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Re: The realization of juniorization sets in...
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 22:31:39 GMT
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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 cement-mixer POOP.
A large 1-piece dump-truck POOP.
etc. etc.
And a handful of real Lego pieces for detailing.
--
Paul Davidson
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Paul Davidson wrote:
> >
> > 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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| 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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| (...) 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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