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Re: "Town Junior" an official product category?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 07:16:08 GMT
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Tim Courtney wrote:
> In lugnet.general lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:
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> > Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!
> >
> > http://www.lego.com/parents/overview/
> >
> > I couldda sworn that a few months ago, the label "Town Junior" was shown
> > there being applied only to the DUPLO town sets (as in, li'l kids' versions
> > of the big kids' town toys) and not to any of the SYSTEM sets. But today at
> > least, "Town Junior" is listed right there as part of SYSTEM:
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> > LEGO SYSTEM TOWN JUNIOR
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> > It's tough for me to take the Parents Overview completely seriously as a
> > list of official product categories, though, because it's got LEGO SYSTEM
> > Town Junior outside of LEGO SYSTEM Themes, for example, and if Town Junior
> > is a synonym for City/City Center, then it's still part of Town, which is
> > still part of LEGO SYSTEM Themes. Yet it's still very interesting
> > nevertheless to see "TOWN JUNIOR" appear there. I gotta cc Lou Zucaro on
> > this one! :)
>
> Definitely something worth writing home about. That does appear very
> curious that they would use that term. More than curious, hilarious
> in fact. I wonder if they did get the name from watching RTL/Lugnet
> and seeing our distaste for the new Town stuff.
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> <rant>
> BTW - I'm doing a police internship, and the commander I met with has
> his office full of little police toys and models. I'm thinking of
> getting him a Lego police car at the end of my internship - but I
> DON'T want to get a crappy Town Jr. set. Maybe I'll just design my
> own police car out of my own parts, list what I used, and try to get
> those parts back over time... TLC, see what inconveniences your
> customers go through...
> </rant>
>
> -Tim
>
> http://www.zacktron.com
> http://www.ldraw.org
> AIM: timcourtne
> ICQ: 23951114
There is always buy/sell/trade. Someone there will sell you a sutable police car
at a sutable price.
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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