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Sorry about my comments sounding slightly sexist, but I was also considering my sisters and brother. Whenever we had our lego out, it was always my brother and I who would build the vehicles [trucks, cars, whatever] while my sisters would prefer to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Of course, the catalogue is age-ist as well as sex-ist. When did you last see a middle-aged person depicted as playing with Lego in the catalogue (as opposed to being shown smiling approvingly in the background as a child plays with Lego)? Actually, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'm glad he's just sucking that pipe, rather than smoking it, hope that wasn't some early form of product placement by the tobacco industry. I like the prominent display of wedding rings too, imagine single adults contemplating the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Go to the index page (URL) and check out some of the other images. It looks like they're using pre superfast wheeled Matchbox cars in the town scene on page 4a (and where did the road plates come from?). They could make some pretty cool stuff (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) They came as a pack of six, I recall, 5 trees and a row of bushes. Looking at the LUGnet database (and taking into account the age I was), I think I have found the set (or one very like it): (URL) also had a pack of six national flags. The (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) What's changed is that TLC believes (perhaps correctly, perhaps not) that kids nowadays have short attention spans, and will not be interested in building a big, complex set over, say, watching TV or playing the computer. (...) Yep, that's (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It's hard to tell from that image, but I can picture them in my head, the green had a couple of different shades too (I remember a brighter green). (...) I didn't have flags, but I had road signs and heaps of the two-high lattice fences with (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) out (...) wheeled (...) come (...) Yes, they look just like the Matchbox cars that I used in my Lego constructions back in the early-mid 60s. We used to put (live) lizards in the Lego houses as we didn't have mini-figs back then. Admittedly I (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Argh! Having just said the road plates were not Lego, I took a closer look at the next picture and they are Lego after all, studs and all. Oh well, I never saw anything so sophisticated here in Australia in my childhood. Kerry (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Lizards would probably dislike their heads being swapped too. (...) I saw this set in an auction, it looked like painted timber. pete.w (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yeah, when I checked out the 1965 catalogue on BenW's suggestion I saw the "Town Layout" kit with the road plates and instructions for building the structures IIRC. Oh to have been around in those "glory years" (without trying to sound (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I did note that you also said in your original comments that a kid should be able to choose what he/she wants to play with, and that's the most important thing. But we also have to remember that children of both genders need to be exposed to (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Peter Callaway" <pcallaway@bmcl.com.au> wrote in message news:FwFss9.Cxv@lugnet.com... (...) puzzle (...) This is the view that most people have of thesis students, who spend a whole year doing a single task. :) Excuse me, I haven't done anything (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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