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Re: Incredible Shrinking Disease
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lugnet.town
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 23:50:30 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Sanjay D'Souza writes:
> 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?
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> 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.
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> Train has suffered a similar fate here in NZ with only two sets appearing in
> that section.
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> From memory the City Center range comprises of
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> - Police
> - Fire
> - Construction
> - Repair
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> and that's it.
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
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> The part that had me chuckling was the description that went with the set
> #6600 (Bridge to no where) which from memory said
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> "The bridge allows you to build houses, other roads etc underneath".....
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> 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.
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> 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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