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Re: New 2000.2 catalogue - sexism rules OK?
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 04:40:43 GMT
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and where did the road plates come from

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



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  Re: New 2000.2 catalogue - sexism rules OK?
 
(...) 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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(...) 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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