[Carmine]

I would agree with the above, but I also think there is a big culture gap between eastern/western thinking... If that set were built in Germany, it would have had a nice cabinet. The English weren't exactly rollin' in dough after WWII either, but they still had some style in their manufactured goods.

I don't know if Australia was effected much one way or the other by WWII, but their products look the most "American" of anything other than the real-deal.

This communual "global" sell-in-every-nation crap makes for some pretty boring stuff.