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Subject: 
Re: Town Jr on LEGO site ?!?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:28:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Koesel writes:
> Ben Gatrelle <ben.gatrelle@nospam.bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:FJ5xno.LG0@lugnet.com...
> > And here I thought that Town Junior was a pejorative terms coined by an
> > early LUGNET or RTLer?  If that is the case then TLG must read these
> > newsgroups after all...

It was.  The term "Town Jr." appeared in RTL long before "Town Junior" ever
appeared on the TLG website.


> > Imagine my surprise when I looked at this page:
> > http://www.lego.com/parents/overview.asp
> > and read that TLG is now proudly labeling their own sets as Town Jr.
> > 
> > Wow!

Pretty amazing!  Kinda makes ya wonder...


> If I recall, the term appeared in when Town Jr. first showed up in 1996(?),
> in some European literature from TLG.

I thought it was coined by Lou Zucaro in late 1996.  Can someone check
DejaNews?

--Todd



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  Re: Town Jr on LEGO site ?!?
 
If I recall, the term appeared in when Town Jr. first showed up in 1996(?), in some European literature from TLG. Ben Gatrelle <ben.gatrelle@nospam...gfoot.com> wrote in message news:FJ5xno.LG0@lugnet.com... (...) early (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)

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