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    What happened to the early 90's models —David Williams
   During a recent cleanout of my lego magazines I found some early 90's ones. What happened to the town models between 1990 and 1995? They seemed to be more detailed than the 1999/2000 models. There was also more peices too. (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
   
        Re: What happened to the early 90's models —Dan Jezek
     (...) This degradation of current Lego sets is called "juniorization". Lego wants to target kids of younger ages and makes the sets with less pieces and less complex which makes the sets supposedly easier to put together for younger kids. It is not (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
    
         Re: What happened to the early 90's models —Paul Davidson
      D. Jezek <danjezek@REMOVEaloha.net> wrote in message news:Fo45Jq.9wn@lugnet.com... (...) ones. (...) wants (...) less (...) Model (...) I'd beg to differ with Technic. Some technic has remained unjuniorized, but a lot of it (throwbots, etc) is made (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
   
        Re: What happened to the early 90's models —Sanjay D'Souza
   The standard of promotional Town sets released in the last few years offers the only glimmer of hope for Townies. The 1998 Shell Soccer sets were the equal of any Town sets from the regular range while the 1999 Shell sets weren't too far behind. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
   
        Re: What happened to the early 90's models —Jeremy Spin
   (...) the (...) I think LEGO Should have Town (or other juniorized sets) in Junior form & in the old System form. I think they might make some more money (If any LEGO Designers are looking). In 1999 the first LEGO Set I bought was the "Rock Raiders" (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
 

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