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Re: The realization of juniorization sets in...
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Fri, 31 Dec 1999 02:22:06 GMT
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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.
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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 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.
$80 for this set is riduiculous.
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> 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).
SOmehow I doubt it. Dear lord, when will we learn?
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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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