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Subject:	`Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
Newsgroups:	lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk
Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2001 09:24:18 GMT
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Hi all, This is sure to cause some controversy and stir up some discussion on this forum: http://www.lineone.net/telegraph/2001/07/08/news/why_46.html More discussion of this over on /.: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/08/221215&mode=nested Now I'll just sit back and watch the sparks fly, I think. Cheers, Johannes. -- It's a good thing money can't buy happiness. We couldn't stand the commercials. Bibliovorous chocophiliac.

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		Re: `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
What we could do with is a short web page 'A quick guide to the basics of Lego' This would be invaluable for people who wish to comment on Lego but do not have the experience we enthusiast's have. It should also address the element of Meccano fans (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general)

		Re: `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
Steven Lane wrote; >This would be invaluable for people who wish to comment on Lego but do not >have the experience we enthusiast's have. It should also address the element >of Meccano fans who have a simplistic dislike of Lego. I wonder what the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)

		Re: `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
(...) Hmm, it's wandered into a discussion of juniorization, here's an interesting quote from a parent: (...) (The previous post was talking about juniorized sets and calling them "custom sets.") (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

		Re: `Why Britain needs more Meccano and less Lego'
(...) I think Sir Harry hasn't checked out the crap Meccano is offering these days. "Erector, Jr." anyone? Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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