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| | | Last year while I was in the Lego aisle in Wal-Mart, I overheard this conversation between a mother and her son: Mother: (holding 1999 Spaceport set) "How about this one?" Boy: (Takes box and looks at it, irritation evident in voice) "Nah, it's got (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Mark A. Herzberg
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| | | | | I'm fourteen. When I was nine, I had Super Nintendo, I played with action figures, I had computer games. There is no difference now, excepet that the graphics are better. I don't think a kid today cannot build a set from the 1980's. My brother hates (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Erin Windross
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| | | | | | | (...) I'm twelve. (...) When I was nine I had Lego, Brio, and some kind of K'nex stuff. (...) I likes the new faces, it gave the minifigs more chracter, but now the faces are just getting more and more unuasble (look at the Rock Raider faces!). (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | (...) It's gotten to the point where I have two bags of heads: Generic and Special (also known as Useless). The Generic bag holds heads that can be used on lots(1) of figs in many themes and includes Classic Smileys, Female heads, Star Wars heads, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Jason Catena
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| | | | | | | (...) I'm 28. :) (...) Actually, it turns out some of Lego's own themes (Rock Raiders, UFO, et al.) are far more juniorized and prefab and single-use than some Star Wars sets. I've managed to reuse a significant percentage of the pieces from the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Eric Kingsley
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Well I'm 30... (...) Truthfully if it were not for the Star Wars LEGO sets I may have never gotten back into LEGO and emerged from my darkages. I personally love the sets and not just for the sets but for the part selection. After branching (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | | (...) And, even if you don't like Star Wars, most of the Models are *great*. And the UCS models should be keepers for everyone! :) Jeff (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | | | In lugnet.general, Mark A. Herzberg writes: [snip] (...) [snip] Well, *I* do (need Star Wars LEGO, that is). (Still mourning that he didn't find any Gungun subs on sale this January). -- jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Paul Baulch
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| | | | Colin R Gutierrez wrote in message <3883CC9F.408@ultra.ccp.com>... (...) It's a reasonable observation, but I find it hard to take such kids seriously when they then proceed to the next aisle and go bananas over the one-piece molded-plastic (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Colin Gutierrez
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| | | | (...) I'm fairly sure he didn't. Even if he did, it's apples and oranges. I don't think liking other types of toys invalidates a person's particular views on Lego. I personally have several CyberPowerMegaDemonP...sherZords, I think the intricacies (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | (...) Yes, on walls like that, staggered bricks would be better. But look at this set: (URL) 1xNx5 bricks would make it a whole lot more stable than stacked bricks. On short walls, pressure exertedfrom the side can easily punch the wall out. These (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | To All, (...) I love this set, I don't know why. It is just neat. (...) Definitely. I had cars ramming through this building all the time. It would be nice to have part packs for both, one for individual bricks, and some for 5 brick high walls. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Colin Gutierrez
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| | | | | | Does anyone have any of those motorcycles they'd like to trade? --Colin (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) The terms you're looking for are POOP and SPUD. POOP: "piece out of pieces" -- prefab, juniorized SPUD: "special-purpose, unlegoish/useless/ugly, decorative" -- over-specialized Steve (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Colin Gutierrez
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| | | | | | So a BURP is a POOP and the Leg of a Bug is a SPUD. Gotit. :] --Colin (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Tony Priestman
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| | | | | | On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Colin R Gutierrez (<3889BCC1.3C57@ultra.ccp.com>) wrote at 14:20:49 (...) Well, not *entirely*, as a BURP only has one wall/side, and is hollow. This makes it more like the thin wall elements, which look like bricks on the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Paul Baulch
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| | | | Colin R Gutierrez wrote in message <3885ED6A.2DD1@ultra...cp.com>... (...) I (...) Um, Australia? Perhaps it's a value for price-point thing (small & medium sets are mostly horrendously expensive). Big sets seem to sell well in this country. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Colin Gutierrez
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| | | | | (...) ^^^^^^ Accept, ACCEPT!!! Dang it!! Stayed up too late previous night. --Colin __ __ __ __ __ __ | |_| |_| |_| | | |_| | | | Brick Engineer | | | Colin R Gutierrez | __ __ __ __ | 2000 | |___...___|| |_| |_| |_| ||___...___| |___...___| (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Colin Gutierrez
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| | | | (...) Oops. I hadn't looked at your email address. (...) Okay, I should qualify that. First, and most obvious, is the fact that those pieces are totally useless to me. See my website at: (URL) and you'll understand why. Second, I can't afford to pay (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Attention Lego Group: Children don't like juniorization, either! —Chetan Mistry
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| | | | (...) Well, NASA does have some concept space planes which are more or less wingless, "SRB-less", and with no external fuel tank. The major one looks like a flying triangular wing. But you're right, the aerodyanmic corners thing really screws things (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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