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Re: Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:05:06 GMT
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Duq wrote:
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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)?
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 there is generally a reason for large
pieces and almost every one has uses which depend on it being a single
piece. In 378's case, the steering and the special trailer piece both
server good purposes. The ship hulls are also definitely SPUDs, and some
people dislike them with a passion also (heck, one person even got out
of Pirates because he decided all he could do with the hulls was make
ships).
Frank
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 | | Re: Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
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| I want to add my two cents in here. 1st off...the set in question uses standard 4X2 bricks, a steering wheel, and the shovel assembly, some wheels. Yes, it does have the style of today's juniorization. A lot of the sets in the mid to late 70's (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
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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' (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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