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Subject: 
Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:17:44 GMT
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What you say?

Have you ever looked at the instructions for set 378 (1972):

http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0378/

By my count from the instructions that set has a whopping 30 parts and
the tractor frame is more juniorized than anything which exists today.

I just received a LEGO lot which contains the instructions and a few of
the pieces from this set (the trailer frame, the red bucket arm, and the
yellow bucket).

Frank



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
 
NO! I don't agree. The tractor frame is kinda big, but couldn't be made from separate bricks. It added something otherwise impossible: steering. Apart from the steering wheel it's pretty close to 'normal' bricks. Compare that to those five-'brick' (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
 
Just an point you may find interesting... (...) I'm pretty sure 378 was the first set I was bought. 385 uses the steering frame element and as two copies of that in my collection survived the great parental purge of my dark ages I use the steering (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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