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Re: Feelings over 2000 sets . . .
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lugnet.town
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:42:40 GMT
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I think that LEGO's point is to reduce the piece count to make it easier for
children to put together.
Actually, I have a love/hate relationship with the juniorized pieces. On
the one hand, they do reduce the complexity (bad), but on the other hand,
they make it easy to slap up large sections of relatively clean-looking wall
when you have good quantities of them (good)
John Green <john.p.green@disney.com> wrote in message
news:Fqsw3z.F71@lugnet.com...
> 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 wonder if this set has new pieces that are being • 'filed
> tested' before Lego uses them in new SW sets..."
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> Personally, I like the arctic sets. There are some juniorized parts, but • what
> I've found odd is that a lot of basic shapes have been juniorized. Why is
> that? Why spend all that money to make new molds for a new piece that can
> already be made from three existing bricks? I can understand juniorizing • all
> the complex shapes that are virtually impossible to build with existing • bricks,
> but why juniorize basic wall shapes? Seems quite silly (which I'm sure has • been
> said many a time).
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> -John
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> In lugnet.starwars, Todd Lehman writes:
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> > 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
> >
> > [XFUT lu
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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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