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Photos of The Vault / 'new' classic space set?
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Mon, 3 May 2004 20:39:23 GMT
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I was in Billund last week and was privleged to be allowed into 'the vault'
for research purposes.
As previously mentioned elsewhere, this is a room filled with multiple
copies of everything LEGO has ever produced [1], kept primarily for legal
purposes, I am led to believe.
In the three hours I had in there, I searched for 'System' sets that
www.Brickset.com does not have listed, in the period 1978 onwards. I was
particularly interested in finding any otherwise unknown promotional sets.
To be perfectly honest, you'd need three weeks in there to check everything
properly, there's so much, but in that time I did uncover a few new sets
which you can see at http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?show=New.
Of particular note is what may be a previously unknown space set, number
1526, http://www.brickset.com/search.aspx?Set=1526-1. However unlike every
other set in there, this was not complete and looked to be a stapled mock up
of a box. Paperwork in the room listed the set as having been released in
1986, the same year as the date on the box, so it could well be a 'real'
set, that is so rare even LEGO don't have a copy. Or it might just be what I
found: a mock up of a set that was intended to be produced but never was. I
intend to ask the very helpful archivist for more information about it in
due course.
Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised to find that, actually, Brickset is
pretty much complete for 'System' sets in the period in which we specialise
(c.1980 onwards), and apart from the space set mentioned above, no real
'gems' were uncovered. I hope one day to go back, maybe with a helper, and
do a more thorough check, and also include the 1970's.
Here are some pictures I took in there, and also in the new 'museum' area
that is being set up in the same building.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=79017
Huw
[1] Well, that's the claim. I am not personally convinced that everything is
there, particularly promotional sets from recent years. At least, I am sure
some of the airline promos and other small polybags I have in my collection
are missing. But then, I did only have 3 hours in there, so I probably
missed them...
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Message has 8 Replies:
 | | Re: Photos of The Vault / 'new' classic space set?
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| (...) Dibs on "helper." :o) I've been wanting to make the trek to Billund for almost 30 years now, and being Classic-Space complete, I really need to see that 1526 box up close and personal. Please consider this a serious offer. I also need to see (...) (20 years ago, 4-May-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Photos of The Vault / 'new' classic space set?
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| Hi Huw, Thank you for sharing your story and photographs. They are quite interesting. I doubt that you checked castle sets much, but I have a few small questions. Did you see any of these sets (which currently arent listed on brickset but are on (...) (20 years ago, 4-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Photos of The Vault / 'new' classic space set?
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| (...) I'm surprised they allowed you to take (and post) pictures. When I was there in 2002, I was asked to put my camera away. I only spent a little time inside. It was only one part of a perhaps hour-long personal tour of the Idea House. It must (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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