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Also included in the several chapters of my LEGO Collectors Guide are going to
be several videos.
The nice thing about having a Computer Desktop collectors guide (as opposed to
just a hardcover book) is that you can click on sites on the internet (videos
and reference sites), and then go back to the desktop document where you left
off. This will be true for several videos of some of the largest collections of
LEGO display sculptures on the planet.... including museums (Dan Brown's in
Ohio), as well as online links to the works of famous LEGO sculptors (and LEGO
friends) such as Eric Harshbarger, Nathan Sawaya and Adam Reed Tucker.
The 5 chapters on display models will make this the ultimate guide for official
(and non-official) LEGO sculptures and displays! ;-)
(P.S. If you currently own my collectors guide.. this expansion of the guide
from 2800 to 3700 pages will be free
One last teaser... from the 1985 Paris LEGO Architect Exhibit...
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3678/10412139184_bcbc500d6b_b.jpg
Thanks,
Gary Istok
P.S. For people mildy interested... see "special" post #21...
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=73780
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Several LEGO fans have recently offered the use of the images of about 150
display models covering the last half century of LEGO retailer displays, for my
Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide next edition (free to current owners
of my DVD or Desktop Reference Guide).
So now my chapter on Glued LEGO display models will likely be split into large
chapters on models by decades!! :)
Chapter 78 - 1955-70 Early Display Models.
Chapter 79 - 1970s Display Models.
Chapter 80 - 1980s Display Models.
Chapter 81 - 1990s Display Models.
Chapter 82 - 2000- Present Display Models.
This is in addition to a chapter on LEGO Retailer Stores & Displays, and a
chapter on LEGO Retailer Catalogs, Binders and Brochures.
I'm very excited over this... some of these new LEGO guide chapters will be
subdivided into sub-chapters on Town, Castle, Space, Homemaker, Large Figures,
etc.
These chapters will show the evolution from the early years, when retailers were
required to purchase Display Models from TLG in Billund Denmark, to starting in
the 1970s when TLG made them available to retailers, but kept ownership of the
models, expecting them to be returned to TLG. From what I gathered TLG didn't
want broken or dirty display models left in circulation, because they wanted to
protect the image and reputation of the LEGO product.
Fortunately for us today... many of these LEGO display models didn't make it
back to TLG, which once returned... they were destroyed. So we are fortunate
that there are survivors among this part of LEGO history. This same destruction
took place among weathered and replaced Miniland models from the LEGOLAND
partks. Somewhere I have a heartbreaking image of a huge mound of disposed
LEGOLAND models that were on their way to being crushed and recycled.
Even in the early years, when retailers could own their own copies of models,
TLG suggested that they dispose of them after they became outdated and no longer
in good condition.
The over 150 image assortment I now have to document is amazing... an entire
book on just these alone could be put together.... ;-)
Some teasers from my LEGO display model chapters....
1950s build of a medieval house....
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8701/16935885187_4d0e21f4c8_b.jpg
1960 build of a modern house....
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8611/16191018543_becafebe1a_o.jpg
1960s build of an English Tudor House....
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8707/16245566973_9b61481741_b.jpg
1976 display model of The Old Lady Who Lived In A Shoe....
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3868/14333898286_3dca92a5a1_b.jpg
1970s display model of a Mississippi paddlewheel steamer....
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3113/4566202309_f56ac97d10_b.jpg
1001 Arabian Nights....
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8785/17158944830_ae7b67cd2f_b.jpg
LEGO Airport....
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7734/17158953130_083de99900_b.jpg
.... and a bazillion more....
Enjoy!
Gary Istok
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Mini LEGOLAND set to open in Shanghai
2016 will welcome China’s first bricktastic ‘Discovery Centre’
Published on April 24, 2015
While we are currently raising a generation of alarmingly tech-savvy children,
who memorise their parents’ iPad pin codes before the letters of the alphabet
and can thrash you at Candy Crush Saga while they’re still being potty trained,
there was of course a time when computers didn’t rule the roost. This was LEGO
golden era, preceding a slump of almost ten years - which it is now emerging
from, thanks to the surprising critical and commercial success of The LEGO
Movie. Everyone thought it would be shit, because it sounded like it would be
shit, but it wasn’t. It was really very good.
This success, along with the popularity of the latest centre which opened in
Tokyo (pictured) last year, has presumably helped to bankroll Shanghai’s very
own LEGO Discovery Centre – a mini version of LEGOLAND proper – set to open some
time next year at the Parkside Plaza in Putuo district. Works are underway on a
3,000sqm space by production company Merlin Entertainment, who say it will be
the first of many attractions in the area. Costing 100 millionRMB, it is likely
to include all of the Discovery Center hallmarks: a brick pool, factory tour,
car racing area, a (hopefully sturdy) LEGO ride, master classes from the LEGO
master model builder, and the famous Miniland exhibition, which will include
replicas of all of Shanghai’s most famous landmarks. It is of course arguable
that a city has really made it once it has its own LEGO replica. Shanghai, we’ve
arrived! Behold us in all our LEGO glory.
The opening will be part of a slew of other theme park-related openings – last
year’s Hello Kitty, and next year’s Disneyland.
Source:
TimeOutShanghai.com
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