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Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:04:13 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Paul Baulch writes:
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> John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote in message ...
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> > I always wanted the Galaxy Explorer (LL 928) .....One of the Holy Grails I
> > dream of.....more so than a BSB or Yellow castle.....
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> Yeah, I felt like that, EXACTLY like that, for nigh on twenty years... then
> late last year I bought a used one in an auction. It was complete and in
> mint condition, just perfect. I built it, and held it in my hands and stared
> at it and whooshed it around to see what it looked like, and..... I felt
> vaguely disappointed.
> It's kind of neat in a near-future-tech way, but it just looks..... boxy.
> Clunky. Old-fashioned. Now, I see it more as a Grey 4x4 Cone and
> Trans-Yellow Parts Pack. If I had a project that needed blue and trans
> yellow I'd break it up immediately.... right now, though, it sits in my room
> gathering dust.
You know the phrase "You can never go home again" ? This is how I feel about
the idea that has been kicked around regarding Lego reissuing Classic sets. I'm
afraid that I would be disappointed. They might not be as exciting, as
interesting, as they were when I was 8 years old. I'm afraid that the luster
might be gone if I held a Galaxy Explorer now. I agree that it was (is) a
fantastic design, but it might seem simple...a bit uninteresting in light of the
parts selection that we have 20+ years later. I'm sure that plenty of people
who have actually held the Galaxy Explorer recently would disagree with me.
Sure, if I could get a spectacularly impossible deal on it, I probably would
purchase it, or some of my other holy-grails. In my case at least, I'm afraid
that I'd be wise to let them enjoy the almost mythical status that I have
allowed time and nostalgia to bestow upon them in my mind. And I can probably
only do this by not owning them.
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