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Re: What's different about the 10040 Main Street legend?
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Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:05:58 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Jake McKee writes:
> All,
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> I have gotten a few questions about what has changed with the 10040 Main
> Street legend. Below is a list of a few of the changes. When we started
> researching bringing this back, there were a few other issues that we were
> able to address. We had to dig up a number of old moulds, while some were
> destroyed some time ago. Remember the original product was launched in 1980!
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> - Road plates: The decorated road is wider than the old ones as we have
> introduced wider cars in the 1990's i.e. in Junior, Jack Stone. This also
> means that the new road plates have one stud row less than the old ones. The
> new road plates have "rounded" green stripes and not pointed like the old one.
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> - Crane rails: The rails that the crane slides in have been changed too.
> Each rail used to be made out of two long plates, now they are made out of
> 4, half the length of the old ones, obviously. Because of the "missing stud
> row" mentioned above we also had to change the way that the rails were build
> onto the studs via blue elements. We have added a couple of blue elements to
> be able to attach the rails without the extra stud row.
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> - The woman in the set is wearing a new hair that was developed for LEGO
> SYSTEM Paradisa in 1992 instead of her original hair.
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> - The wheels for the cars are also new. The pattern on the rim has been changed.
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> - Apart from the above, some printed decorations on elements have been
> changed to labels.
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> - We have made alterations and/or new photos to the packaging to reflect all
> of the above changed since it is required by law that the front of the
> packaging shows a 1:1 photo of what you will find in the box.
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> Hope this is useful!
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> Jake
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> ---
> Jake McKee
> Community Development Manager
> LEGO Direct
Hi Jake,
You forgot, that one of trees in the original set, has been replaced by a
spruce tree in 10040!
Kecia :-)
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