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Subject: 
2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
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Date: 
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:20:23 GMT
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All,

Well, I just got a copy of the new 2532, box image here:

http://www.dtrh.com/brickyard/pics/2532.gif

If any of you had illusions of some sort of "Town Rebirth"
let me put them to rest. I think this set clearly shows the
direction of TLG in one stroke: The side windows of the "jet"
are STICKERS.

A sad day indeed,
Gene @ The Brickyard



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
 
(...) NOOO...OOOooo...ooo!!!!! <<<sound of Mark, trying to open the window and jump>>> Why is TLG doing that to us? What awfull thing did we do to TLG to get this kind of treatment? I can't believe it! That's it. From now on, I will only buy SW sets (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
 
Ugh, Town Junior claims another victim, good-bye airport! :( And why did they put the old front ends for planes on it? (Compare with sets 6597-Century Skyway, 6582 Daredevil Flight Squad, 1818-Airplane Special, as well!) It took me tons of money and (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
 
(...) Who cares about stickers? Sure, I'd rather have window parts than plane bricks, but the real question is: does it use Jr. pieces? From the box picture, the set seems to use normal pieces. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
 
(...) There's no denying it's sad. IMO a better word is pathetic. I'm thankful that, as Steve put it, the stickers aren't pre-applied. As has been stated before, parts is parts. It's too bad that we have to look at certain sets that way without (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)

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