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Re: Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 17 Mar 2001 00:00:18 GMT
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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' castles or one-piece motorbikes.
Different league.
If that tractor frame is called juniorisation, what would that make the '73
ship hulls? Or the crane arm in 332 ('67)?
Duq
"Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:3AB29F17.1D0D4C01@mindspring.com...
> What you say?
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> Have you ever looked at the instructions for set 378 (1972):
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0378/
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Frank
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| (...) It isn't obvious from the instructions that the steering wheel is connected to the front wheel brick. The piece is still a SPUD. My point though is that the use of large special purpose parts is not new at all. My point has always been that (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| What you say? Have you ever looked at the instructions for set 378 (1972): (URL) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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