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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <3821a7fd.181886445@lugnet.com>...
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:04:31 GMT, "Allan Bedford"
> <apotomeREMOVE-THIS@execulink.com> wrote:
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> > Well, Gary and Tim... I gotta step in and disagree with you on something
> > here. As the son of a life-long Meccano collector your comments on Erector
> > sets make me cringe a bit.
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> Allan,
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> Care to make any comments on the current offerings of Meccano? I was in TRU the
> other day, looking at the Meccano area. Seems like a true-blue Meccano
> collector would have a worse reaction to the new Meccano than an AFOL does to
> Town Jr.
Meccano isn't really Meccano any longer - the UK company went broke(?), and
the product was sold to a *French* company.
As far as I've seen, they have gone into making sets instead of universal
building boxes - and they have *plastic* variants too :-(
I don't have any real Meccano of my own, only the Swedish clone 'Teknik', and
I think Technic Lego is much better/easier to use (although I spent many hours
with Teknik as a child)
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery.htm
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| (...) Meccano went broke a long time ago! As for having a reaction...I think they'd drop dead!. I have a 6A book from my dad's stuff, as well as having read a fair number of the meccano magazines over the years. I have up to #3 set, and some (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Allan, Care to make any comments on the current offerings of Meccano? I was in TRU the other day, looking at the Meccano area. Seems like a true-blue Meccano collector would have a worse reaction to the new Meccano than an AFOL does to Town (...) (25 years ago, 4-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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