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Re: More on the decline of LEGO quality.... [long]
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Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:21:16 GMT
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wow, I never noticed that before, but yeah it seems like the catalogs have
gone way down in quality too. Jeeze I remeber buying sets just to try and
recreate the scenes in the catalogs. That harbor scene is like the coolest
one though.
Matt Marshall
http://matt.rapturesoft.com
Tim Culberson <t_c_c@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> ----Note: FUT: lugnet.year.2001 (I figure this is probably the best
> place but feel free to change :)----
>
> ...Sorry if this has been discussed but I was pondering today on the
> subject of the LEGO catalogs.
>
> We've all yakked lots about how LEGO designs are becoming juniorized,
> cheap, smaller, less interesting, blah blah blah...but what about the
> LEGO catalogs? Although I was certainly younger at the time, I remember
> being just fascinated looking at the catalogs of the lat 80's and early
> 90's themselves because of all the inspiring and interesting scenes that
> were created. They gave meaning and purpose to all of the various sets
> in a particular theme such that the sets belonged together!
>
> Lets take a walk back in time and observe....starting with the most
> recent years.
>
> Well, myself being a town fan the 2001 catalog is the most
> dissappointing of course, but for the sake of this argument lets look at
> a closely related theme such as trains for this year:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/2001/c01am-100dpi/c01am-19.html
> ...wow a train in no particular place or situation (again, for the
> purpose of this discussion let's ignore the fact that the train looks
> like something from a really bad sci-fi flick)....now lets look at a
> train from 1995:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1995/c95uk/c95uk-37.html
> Holy cow! Talk about making the train appealing and inspiring hours of
> play here! We have a whole scenario with details left up to the
> reader's imagination. Like a good novel we become involved in what's
> going on adding our own ideas and thoughts. "...hmm....I'm going to
> have to build an ambulance out of my existing LEGO to help that poor
> dude with the 1x1 plates falling on him.....and what about that cargo
> being unloaded - it has to go somewhere - guess I'll need to build some
> trucks.....and so forth...."
>
> We can see a progression from so-so to good to awesome to worse again
> and finally to just plain pathetic....just take a look at the below pics
> in order:
>
> 1979 http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1995/c95uk/c95uk-37.html A
> Nice friendly town scene - perhaps a bit too much chaos with police and
> fire and ambulance all racing around not to mention the darned crane in
> the middle of the street! :)
>
> Let's jump ahead 8 years to 1987 now
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1987/c87eu/c87eu-08.html Once
> again, stuff is happening in this town! There's an emergency
> here...police, fire, and even news team are on the scene.
>
> Two years later....
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1989/c89nl/c89nl-23.html
> I start making up stories about the minifigs within 10 seconds of seeing
> this photo.
>
> In 1991...
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1991/c91eu/c91eu-07.html
> This is probably my favorite LEGO catalog scene of all time - correct me
> if I'm wrong but this is also only 1/2 of the full scene if I'm not
> mistaken. I distinctly remeber looking at this particular picture for
> hours!
>
> 1996 http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1996/c96eu/c96eu-04.html
> Yeah, we're still doing pretty good here!
>
> 1998 however...
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1998/c98na/c98na-18.html
> ...still has some action happening, but those individual set photos
> pasted on the hand-drawn background are a far cry from the real photos
> of the past...
>
> And by 2000....
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/2000/c00am-100dpi/c00am-27.html
> We're right down the poop-hole if you ask me.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> --
> -TiM
> NB, CA
> http://echofx.itgo.com
> t_c_c@yahoo.com
> 3ch0fx
>
> (Note: As if anyone didn't know already anyways I feel it's important
> that you're aware these scans are credit brickshelf.com - thanks Kevin!)
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