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Incredible Shrinking Disease
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lugnet.town
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Date:
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:28:32 GMT
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I finally got a copy of the 2000 LEGO Catalogue over the weekend, and in
need of a good laugh checked out the City Center (Town) section. I don't
know if anyone else has mentioned this but is the range slowly but surely
decreasing?
I'd say there are probably only 12 sets at most in the City Center range for
this year. At it's height, Town once had about 40-45 sets in the range.
Train has suffered a similar fate here in NZ with only two sets appearing in
that section.
From memory the City Center range comprises of
- Police
- Fire
- Construction
- Repair
and that's it.
The part that had me chuckling was the description that went with the set
#6600 (Bridge to no where) which from memory said
"The bridge allows you to build houses, other roads etc underneath".....
Yeah right. There hasn't been a Town house since 1990 and doing a MOC house
now is almost akin to walking on water with the range of pieces currently
available in the City Center range.
Another trend I've noticed is that the images appearing in the City Center
section are now larger, presumably because there aren't enough sets to fill
the pages.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Incredible Shrinking Disease
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| I suspect that town sets don't appeal to children as much as some of the other "trendy" product lines like Star Wars. Town is probably seen as "booring." Kids want what they see on TV. I remember the early 90's catalogs when they had tons of town (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: Incredible Shrinking Disease
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| (...) Sanjay, Here is a wishful thought! Maybe, just maybe they are going to bring back the "glory days" of our beloved line. 50 sets of pure construction with the return of the garage door and 4 new houses! Mike (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
| | | Re: Incredible Shrinking Disease
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| (...) It actually all has to do with the market. The US City Centre range is 21 sets, and S@H still carries many discontinued models, bringing the total to over 30, probably because of lack of sales. The US train range continues with 11 sets, plus (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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