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Re: The realization of juniorization sets in...
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Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:24:28 GMT
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Frank Filz (<386BD713.6113@mindspring.com>) wrote
at 22:05:07
> 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.
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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.
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 piece
digger arm remains to haunt me.
I'm glad I'm not into Town.
--
Tony Priestman
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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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| (...) 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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