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Re: Best Lego Year of all time?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 26 Feb 2003 02:49:11 GMT
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> Very interesting. Using Lugnet set rating data as of September 16th 2002, I
> played around with the numbers a bit. In fact, I made a graph of average set
> rating for given years:
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> http://www.suave.net/~dave/images/avgyeargraph.jpg (1)
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> Notice how things are on an upward trend until 1975, where it stays pretty
> level (though lots of graph blips), UNTIL you hit the magic year that
> juniorization started: 1997. Anyone suprised?
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> Contenders for the throne (average top 5 years): 1988, 1975, 1980, 1992, and
> 1984.
That graph is very interesting.
I also find it not that surprising that Juniorized sets appeared just as
studless beams/liftarms started to become the norm for Technic sets.
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> I don't think I could personally pick a year. Maybe I could pick "best year
> for theme X", but even that's awfully tricky. Ah well. A fun excersize :)
Go ahead then. Name the best year for each theme :-)
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| (...) Yup. Technic was just about at its strongest until 1997, I'd say. (...) Hmm... the slightly more major themes: Adventurers - 1998. 2003's selection is good, but... awfully Juniorized. Aquazone - 1995. It was all downhill from there. Castle - (...) (21 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Very interesting. Using Lugnet set rating data as of September 16th 2002, I played around with the numbers a bit. In fact, I made a graph of average set rating for given years: (URL) (1) Notice how things are on an upward trend until 1975, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general) !
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