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Re: Best Lego Year of all time?
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Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:22:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Stéphane Simard wrote:
> While I was browsing the catalogs, I had this idea... I'd like to know what
> the consensus is as to which year saw Lego as truly the TOP of its game.
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> After browsing the Brickshelf catalogs, I'd have to say 1980. Second batch
> of models for Technic (includes 8860), Minifigs were all over the place now
> (no more "stiffies"), specialized pieces were next to non-existent, all Lego
> cars finally had seats for the minifigs, Classic Space was at its best year,
> and arguably best Train set ever, 7740, came out that year.
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> Other strong contender years for me:
> 1978 and 1979. First ever Technic/Expert Builder sets, Yellow Castle, birth
> of Classic Space...
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> and 1986 (8 new technic sets, Legoland Town and Castle sets reached a
> quality beyond measure, Blacktron I, birth of Model Team...)
I love looking through the archives...!
Best year(s) for LEGO? I'd say the early-mid 1970's! No minifigs (and I like the
minifig!), nice, big gears--"Expert Builder" wasn't out yet--no themes, either
(unless you count the "LegoLand" series as a theme of sorts). You had to
actually use your imagination when you built things. Not too many specialized
parts to mess with in the "basic" sets. Nice, simple...creative.
Do I want to return to that era? Not really.
Like I said above--I like minifigs, and Technic sets are a lot of fun. I'd love
to have some of the Mindstorms NXT stuff. Space is a favorite theme of mine
(M:Tron was fun!), although I have a lot of City stuff as well. And, even though
I have very little of it, Bionicle is pretty cool too. Ninja was interesting for
me, and Exo-Force...why has it taken so long to do the giant robot thing for
LEGO? Speaking of giant things...bring back Model Team! I have like half the
sets for that line.
So...I also have to say the best year(s) is any year that had a lot of stuff you
like, or was a particularly good year time-wise for you.
Play Well!
Matthew Crandall
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