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Unified UK Lego community idea
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:34:55 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Richard Franks writes:
> Lets see how well my brain works this early in the morning, and if I can
> integrate the spotlight-hierarchy idea :) How does this look?
> -Shopping
> -Static Information - Busy Bee, Entertainer, etc;
> -Links to (x) last spotlighted shopping reports
> -breakdown to countries, and then regions, poss not as far as towns/cities
> -Stuart Curtis had a cool idea which could fit right here
I'll take that as my cue, thanks Richard!
My idea, as discussed with Richard and Ian at the recent DK/Lego event in
Glasgow, was for a website, either as part of Lugnet, or on a seperate server,
which basically lists all of the shops in the UK which sell Lego.
This idea came about after the multitude of posts on Lugnet of the scheme:
"Hi, I will be in <insert city here> over the weekend, can you tell me a good
place to go for Lego?"
If there was a site with this kind of information, it would be convenient not
just for tourists, but also for us British AFOLs too...
So basically, you could have a map of the UK, as discussed elswhere in this
thread, with a link for each major city/town/area... people could mail the
host/server with information which could then be accessed through this map.
So, for example, in Newcastle, one of the most interesting shops is the Co-op
department store on Percy Street / Newgate Street, which has old Lego sets from
as far back as 1990 in mainly Town, but also a few Castle, Pirate, Space, and
Paradisa... still at the original prices, which personally is an annoyance, but
undoubtedly a boon to many other AFOLs with more money than sense... sorry,
more money than ME, I meant to say :-)... Anyway, the site could contain this
information as part of the Newcastle / NorthEast section, with maybe a list of
all available sets and prices, and possible updates as these sets slowly
disappear...
The site could also then be used to point out all of the latest offers
available around the UK... e.g. Toy Stack has just started getting rid of Fort
Legoredo for £29.99, at least in their two Glasgow branches, presumably at all
other stores too...
> -Events
> -LegoFESTs
> -Current (Details, directions, trading info etc)
> -Past (reviews, stories, pictures etc)
> -Local (shouldn't need too much of a hierarchy for this)
> -People
> -Entire List
> -Hierarchy by country, region and/or Smiley Map
> -Lego Contacts
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> Where ever the hierarchy is mentioned, I'm thinking of something inspired by
> Lugnet where if you selected Scotland, you'd see shops in Strathclyde and
> Lothian (etc), and if you selected Lothian you'd see fewer shops, and if there
> was an Edinburgh to click upon you'd probably just see those shops in
> Edinburgh.
Exactly as I mentioned above, apologies for the needless repetition on my
part...
> If some geographical hierarchy is implemented then it'd be nice to select an
> area, and be able to see the shops and people nearby.
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> Although, is this the sort of thing that Lugnet would ultimately want to
> achieve?
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> Is there any other type of information that should be on the site, that we
> haven't thought of yet?
I guess that linking to people's websites rather than each person having their
own separate page on the proposed site would be easier to manage, although it
does rely on everybody having a Lego-related part of their webpage (and,
indeed, having a web-page at all!)...
> Richard
Stu C.
University of Glasgow
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Unified UK Lego community idea
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| (...) Sssh! That was supposed to be our little *secret* ;) (...) Tis a half decent price, but I remember seeing it in Toronto for $30, about £13. Mind you, I only passed it up because I was already leaving clothes behind just to cram more Lego into (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: Unified UK Lego community idea
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| (...) I can help you here right now -- very minimal overhead. If you guys want to pick someone to volunteer to maintain links & things, I'll give them editor permissions to the whole /loc/uk/ hierarchy, and they can put information onto the local UK (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
| | | Re: Unified UK Lego community idea
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| On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:34:55 GMT, Stu C. uttered the following profundities... (...) £3.60 at (URL) they are bound to catch on, as virtually every item on the site, selling at 99% off, is now on backorder...... (24 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Unified UK Lego Web Page/Community?
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| (...) Cool! It appears that I've stumbled across something already thought of :) (...) By pane do you mean table or frame? Do you mean that if you clicked upon a entertainer web-site link, then it would appear in the bottom frame, with the UKLUG top (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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