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Re: Unitron??
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 19 Sep 2001 02:31:31 GMT
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"Scott Mangum" <smangum@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:GJtAuI.8G@lugnet.com...
> I'm relatively new to this web site so maybe this has been discussd • before.
> I stopped collecting lego right around the Blacktron II, Space Police II
> days, so I never had any experience with the later space sets. It seems
> after those days the space lego seemed fractured. Unitron is such a tiny
> line, was the whole concept just unpopular? It just doesn't seem very
> developed. 4 different sets, 1 ship, 1 vehicle and 2 bases. Any one know
> the history with this line? The sets seem really cool and I was thinking • of
> getting my hands on some. (at the cost of paying an arm and a leg I'm • sure).
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> What's everyone's thoughts?
The only Unitron set available outside the U.S. was 6991, the other three
were U.S.-only. At least that's the way it seems. The only comments I've
heard about the set from non-USians was "never saw it in my country".
I have a hunch that this was at least a partial factor in its demise. Why?
I'm not sure. A global company wanting to keep a globally consistent product
line? Didn't want the U.S. division manufacturing a line which they had
already manufactured a global replacement for?
But then they brought out the U.S.-only Roboforce sets a couple of years
later, which doesn't fit with that.... I don't know - but I think it mught
be a clue.
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Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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