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Of course, the door bricks with vertical slot got adapted into a design of a
piece for use as the constraint and support for a raisable and lowerable
vertical grille piece in 6090.
I wonder if we'll ever see the emergence of those pieces into town sets?
They look rather bulky to try and integrate into a Town set though.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
G. Crisp <greg@artisans.cncdsl.com> wrote in message
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> Will,
>
> That assumes that it will ever come up again. We can all hope...
>
> Actually, I was looking at this last night. I went through and found
> all of the sets that contain whole doors and mapped the years they
> were available. Based on the data from Tom Stangle's web site at:
>
> http://www.vfaq.com/LEGO/garage/
>
> Those years were: 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1993, and 1994.
>
> Basically, these years would correspond with some of the "high times"
> for Lego town design standards. That means if the juniorization trend
> for Town (now City Center) continues, we will either never see garage
> doors again, or we will see a newer, watered down version that isn't as
> cool or extensible as the older ones (One piece? Only one garage height
> theoretically possible?).
>
> Or we could see 'real' garage doors in another theme. I'm still
> hopeful...
>
> More evidence?:
> It's interesting to note that when you look at the years whole garage
> doors were available, there appear to be two 'cycles'. The 'cycles'
> begin ten years apart, which *could* make it a generational pattern.
> I.e. Lego may release some specialty parts a couple of times each
> generation so that each generation of builders has a chance to add
> them to their tool box. I'm really reaching on this hypothesis, but
> it's also wishful thinking, because that would mean we could see sets
> with garage doors within the next two years!
>
> Taking it a step further, when you map the availability of ANY garage
> door parts, you get:
>
> 1981 - Whole Door
> 1983 - Whole Door
> 1984 - Whole Door
> 1985 - Whole Door
> 1986 - Whole Door
> 1989 - 1X14 only
> 1990 - 1X14 only
> 1991 - Whole Door
> 1992 - 1X14 only
> 1993 - Whole Door
> 1994 - Whole Door
> 1995 - 1X2 only
> 1997 - 1X2 only
> 1999 - 1X14 only
>
> This data could be interpreted to mean that garage door parts start
> showing up a couple of years before whole garage doors are made
> available again, or it could be just random noise. It the former is
> true, then the fact that we have seen parts in the last couple or three
> years lends more hope that we may see whole doors again before long.
>
> Of course, the light at the end of the tunnel is sometimes a freight
> train heading right for you, so I'm not holding my breath. ;-)
>
>
> - Greg
>
>
> Will Hess wrote:
> >
> > > A set of two complete doors with red beams, trans-lt-blue middle
> > > slats, and white bottom slats went for $52 on ebay the other day.
> >
> > That's crazy! For that price I'd just wait and get the set when it • comes up
> > again...the going rate for it is about the same.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Lego Beach Department of Emergency Services
> > www.crosswinds.net/~hokie
>
> --
>
> G. Crisp - gcrisp@mindspring.com
>
> "Indian, indian, what did you die for? Indian says 'Nothing at all.'"
> -- Jim Morrison
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