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Re: Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:19:33 GMT
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Just an point you may find interesting...

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'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 frame to counter the
standard moans of non-AFOLs that 'it's all specialized bits these days'. It
generally results in some surprise and re-assessment on their part.

Psi



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  Nearly 30 Years of Juniorization!
 
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 (...) (23 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)

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