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Re: Online LEGO users design their own sets
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Fri, 8 Dec 2000 18:44:53 GMT
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Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> In lugnet.lego.announce, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> > Within a year building instructions for LEGO sets developed since 1955 will
> > be accessible online.
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> Al of them ? That would be great... no, that would be gigantic. The sheer
> size of it demands very well designed index and search facilities.
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> > "And in 2002, we will begin a program where LEGO builders will be able to >build any three dimensional creation using free software to create building >instructions for their model - and then order the appropriate number and type >of bricks," says Torben Ballegaard Sørensen.
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> Any limitations on avalable types of bricks with this program ?
> It would be perfect if the software is able to import the dat-file format.
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> Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
Like I stated earlier, the problem for old LEGO set instructions for sets from 1955 to 1972 is that 1) Town was alone in the LEGO System world until Train came out in 1966, and others in the 1970's and 2) classic windows came in 9 window sizes and 1 door size (all mostly in red
or white, with a few in yellow).
So unless you have a decent quantity of classic doors/windows, you will not be able to build them. (I am assuming that TLC will not reintroduce classic windows as part of bulk orders). And then there are the (long out of production) specialty parts of the '50s-'70s era such as
the old flat trees, old road signs, Esso Sign/Pumps, 4x8 right and left curved white plates (without the missing notch of plastic on the curve), LEGO street lights. Not to mention the old (scale 1:87) metal wheeled LEGO cars and trucks that were part of some of these old sets
(Fire Truck, Esso Tanker, Tow Truck, misc. truck (lorry), passenger cars). At least all the bricks that were available back then are still available today (with a few exceptions that have exact substitutes today).
Gary Istok
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| In lugnet.lego.direct, Gary Istok writes: [snip] (...) I'm still glad, because I still own some of these parts, though severly worn out. After 15 years of intensive use those old bricks had lost all their "clinging"-power, fortunately current bricks (...) (23 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Al of them ? That would be great... no, that would be gigantic. The sheer size of it demands very well designed index and search facilities. (...) Any limitations on avalable types of bricks with this program ? It would be perfect if the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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