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> There is no relation at all. They are a true mystery, because they look
> more like something between Duplo and System (yet Duplo can work with
> System!).
That is exactly what they are for. There is an age range of *children* who
are too old for DUPLO, but too young for System.
> I sincerely hope that LEGO takes a big punch for this one series,
> perhaps it will hurt them so bad they'll ditch it after 6 months and bring
> out a new series of Town (like the stuff from 1989-1996!) with no junior
> instructions (One booklet per set!!) and a nice selection of multi-useful
> parts that are NOT juniorized.
Please keep in mind that wishing for bad things doesn't help anything...and
also remember that this product line was created *for* juniors, so a little
juniorization is not a bad thing.
Jake
(just another LUGNET member now)
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| "Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:G5qtME.7Gp@lugnet.com... (...) There is that age range, but doesn't Town Jr. fit it nicely already? I'd agree with this line (and I kinda do, seeing your point) more if Town Jr. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| (...) But I like wishing for bad things... It makes my life more fulfilled :o) I disagree with the logic here, juniorization was begun by TLC because kids have shorter attention spans for completing tasks (mostly due to the video game craze). I (...) (24 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Juniorization? I don't think we are talking about the same thing here. The subject is not the racer series from last year (juniorized town type sets) but the newly introduced ugly... things. We can not talk about juniorization about them (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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| (...) There is no relation at all. They are a true mystery, because they look more like something between Duplo and System (yet Duplo can work with System!). I sincerely hope that LEGO takes a big punch for this one series, perhaps it will hurt them (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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