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Jr. Town Shame?
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lugnet.town
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:12:59 GMT
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I did not enter my town layout in the building contest, because I felt
vaguely embarrassed at it. After a little thought, and after reviewing all
the entries, I realized why - I was embarrassed at how "Junior-ized" it is.
It's not all Jr., mind you. I have some MOCs, and some of the “golden age
Lego buildings” - the Metro train station (#4554) and hospital, for
instance, but it has a fair Jr. component. I have the Jr. #6566 Bank, the
Jr. repair facility ( I can’t find the number), the Jr. #6330 Cargo Center,
and the McDonalds, which might not be Jr. but is not noticeably different.
And when you have Jr. buildings, it’s hard to also have a realistically
scaled building. My MOCs are larger, but are on what I guess I would have to
call a “Jr. Appropriate Scale” - they are not so big as to make a Jr.
building unacceptable.
The obvious thought here, then, is to remove the Jr. cancer and build again,
but that has two problems- 1) infrastructure and 2) philosophy.
1) Infrastructure, both mine and Lego. I don’t have the room to have a
reasonably scaled town set up in my house. All I can dedicate to my Town is
the top of a spare bed, and having realistic sized buildings would make my
town only one, maybe two, streets. And for myself, I want a larger space
than that. The road plates are designed for smaller buildings, as are the
trees and such, and even the non-Jr. sets from long ago are not that much
bigger. And if I accept the Metro Train Station as being a decent structure
(and I do), that sets the scale for the rest of the town, so why would I
realistically build other buildings larger? Which brings us to:
2) Philosophy: If I like Lego, and like some of the Lego town sets, how can
I toss away their Town scale?
How do you regard those who depend on Lego sets for their town? For the
reason mentioned above, and because I like to have as large a town (numbers
and range wise) as possible, I use a lot of the Town sets, and then add
homes and other essentials (video stores, bars, etc) that they don’t make.
But the stuff I add is on a Lego scale, which nowadays means a Jr. scale.
And I guess what I want to know, is that weak? I know building from scratch
would be better, but I think we all accept that there are some sets that are
nice, but using them accepts a smaller non-realistic scale. Thoughts?
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| Chuck Rex wrote in message ... (...) It's your town, you build it how you want it, never mind what other people think or say or build :-) I'm like you, with very limited space, and my 2 temporary towns (here: (URL) ) were both about bed-sized. I did (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: Jr. Town Shame?
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| (...) Personally, I think this is a bad reason not to submit an entry...I mean it is your collection right? You should have some pride it it....not to say that you don't - (...) See the above comments...if you have moc's that is really great, and a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: Jr. Town Shame?
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| My previous towns have been pretty heavily juniorized (often with only 6 or 8 studs of depth on the buildings!). (URL) have encountered some of the same problems with un-juniorizing. As far as the problem with mixing juniorized and non-juniorized (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: Jr. Town Shame?
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| (...) 1) The minifig isn't very much to scale to begin with. 2) Using town-scale doesn't have to involve a sacrifice in detail. See my (small) website for proof. Will Bricksburg Fire and Rescue: www.crosswinds.net/~hokie Bricksburg Depot: (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.town)
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