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In lugnet.starwars, David Simmons writes:
> I'm actually quite disappointed with the Arctic sets and think they are
> extremely juniorized. If you look at the large base set, it's composed
> almost entirely of pre-fab pieces. There are almost no bricks in the set.
> I may pick up a few of the smaller ones to get some more orange and a few of
> those transparent boulders, but the theme overall leaves me cold (Sorry, I
> couldn't resist!) :-)
That's mainly what's kept me from going hogwild over the new Arctic sets --
seems like a lot of air in the boxes. OTOH, I think 4 of the large pre-fab
pieces in the big base are those awesome 4x4x6 concave corridor corners in
Gray! (Can anyone confirm this? I love those pieces!)
--Todd
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| Yes, Tod, they are. I have the set. Look at the second picture on this link on the first floor of the building ((URL) I used them in my aquarium and you can see them clearly in this shot. I don't agree that those sets are highly juniorized. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) That's the one piece in this theme that really interests me. I agree that the boxes seem contain a lot of air which is why I have stayed away for now. I really think those pieces would work great in space themes. I think in quantity they would (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.space)
| | | Re: Feelings over 2000 sets . . .
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| The concave corridor corners you speak of are in the set. If only they had used these pieces to make corridors in the MF, since they're basically the same shape. I've been doing that a lot lately, looking at other Lego lines and thinking "hmmm... I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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| Looking closely at the Spring S@H catalog, it does indeed look like there'll four of them. The only real reason to search for this set on clearance. Dave (...) sets -- (...) pre-fab (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) my (...) I'm actually quite disappointed with the Arctic sets and think they are extremely juniorized. If you look at the large base set, it's composed almost entirely of pre-fab pieces. There are almost no bricks in the set. I may pick up a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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