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Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys?
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Fri, 8 Feb 2002 12:09:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Chris Osborn writes:
> In article <Gr6uFr.MIo@lugnet.com>,
> Maggie Cambron <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > We've had a partially built one on our kitchen floor for months and the
> > copyright date on the box is 1994.  (Model 63030).  Seems like there have
> > been more than two of them.
> 
> No, there's just the two. The original is more like a "wooden"
> coaster, and the newer one is like a "steel" coaster. In the new one
> the cars clip around the track and the friction is a *lot* lower. I
> wouldn't call it innovative, but it's certainly a big improvement. If
> the new one had been out at the time when we did
> http://fozztexx.com/SoreFingerCoaster/ and
> http://fozztexx.com/RedFingerExpress/ we probably could have done all
> the things that were in the original plans.

I think this conversation need to move to .o-t.clone-brands.

Jude



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  Re: 22 percent increase in Building & Construction toys?
 
(...) No, there's just the two. The original is more like a "wooden" coaster, and the newer one is like a "steel" coaster. In the new one the cars clip around the track and the friction is a *lot* lower. I wouldn't call it innovative, but it's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.general)

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