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My LEGO CD/DVD days are over... as comprehensive collectors guides go. From now
on it's only as an E-Book. I checked Kindle, and due to Kindle's limitations my
current Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide (1949-1990s) would have
required 14 Kindle books!! Kindle books have a 50MB limit (they must not want a
lot of images). My most recent 2,800 page 6000 image collectors guide exceeds
that limit 14 fold (688MB). So Kindle was not an option, unless all photos were
postage stamp size.
Also, because of continually finding new items on old LEGO, and me adding LEGO
chapters to get to the present, I will only be selling my DVD as an E-Book that
can be downloaded in 6-15 minutes... no shipping, no Customs... and best of
all... no waiting.... (ouch).
Anyone who has the LEGO DVD (1949-90s) or the DVD/download... will be
periodically offered upgrades to the DVD (my goal is to get it to the
present)... plus get additional upgrades for rare old items that have been
found.... free of charge into perpetuity.... but as a "download only"... that
you can have easy access to on your computer desktop. FREE resends of the 73
chapter volume if your files are corrupted by a Virus, or your computer dies,
and you get a new one.
The next upgrade won't be for about 9 months... but no further buying is
required if you already have (or are expecting) the DVD or download. But no
more mailing/waiting will be necessary... since I know I've kept too many people
waiting for too long.
Anyway... if you haven't ordered it... it's still available... but as a download
only...
http://legocollectorsguide.weebly.com/
(Please only the first option... the site hasn't yet removed the mailed DVD
option... had too many problems with them...)
Also here's an example of additions for the future...
1) not just 4.5V and 12V trains... but also 9V.
2) Space, Pirates, Castle, Technic and Town to the year 2000.
And here's another older sets change... the first 4 LEGO basic set designs where
these (1950-53)....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/7885038540/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Well it appears that there's an even earlier box design... with some wood
partitions...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/istokg/7984674669/sizes/l/in/photostream/
This one likely dates to 1949-50... and has bold text on the box top, making
this the first known box design LEGO every created.
More new items to follow...
Again... no more purchase or mailing required for future updates... just a 6-15
minute downloading via Email instructions.
Cheers,
Gary Istok
P.S. The 73 chapters currently will grow to likely over 100 chapters... at no
additional cost to current owners!!
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Thanks to whomever highlighted my post...
I was just packing some BL orders, and was looking up the answer to some
questions I was Emailed about how Minifigs originated, and I realized that there
was an unfinished chapter that I never added to the DVD/download (saying I got
behind is an understatement). That was on the evolution of LEGO Minifigs...
from the first LEGO figures that came out in 1956 (HO Scale) to the giants of
the mid 1960s (USA/Canada Doll Sets and the Denmark/Japan very rare Clown Set).
The evolution continued to the Homemaker sets that first came out without
people... then with people... then we got the minifig stiffs... then the minfigs
in 1978... etc. My favorites are still that Minifig hairpiece that looks like
the rare white pigtail hairpiece... but without the pigtails. Never released,
but TLG loves to toy with us and tease us just like they did with the 1979
Hospital set never produced, the mid 1980s Shell Station never produced (except
as an Exxon set for the USA), and the 1996 6500 Holiday Village set in the UK...
again never produced.
But I digress... one of the first new chapters in the "free to anyone who owns
the current DVD/download" will be the chapter on the history of Minifigs...
followed much later on more minifig chapters...
Cheers,
Gary Istok
Get back to packaging... (and open razors...)
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Chapter cover picture... "The 50 year Evolution of LEGO Figures and Minifigs".
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/7777054110/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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My all time favorite LEGO chapter in my CD (Chapter 10)... much expanded in the
LEGO DVD/download.... was the Wooden Box sets chapter (now Chapter 15 in the
DVD/download).
I have pictured about 80 or so wooden box sets... about double what TLG has in
their Billund Archives, and about 10 times what anyone else has in their online
databases. For the DVD/download... I found a lot of new items such as the
largest LEGO box (a USA/Samsonite HUGE institutional wooden box) ever produced
by TLG... with 3,250 pieces... produced from 1963-65 for USA/Canada by
Samsonite. Also found rare Norwegian and Danish PAB boxes from 1950-55.
The wooden box set chapter is my all time favorite chapter... since no one else
comes close to knowing the "whole story" on these 1957-78 unique sets.... ;-)
And the strangest thing about these boxes... they almost never had a set number
on the box... only on a "Contents List" that came with the set... and once those
are lost... you have no idea what you have!
Here's a 17 box "Whitman Sampler" for Chapter 15....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/7779014310/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Cheers
Gary Istok
P.S. And here's the oldest LEGO basic sets (1949-53)... don't have this in the
older CDs... but finally got the images from my collector friends...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/7885038540/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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Besides selling my DVD on my own external site... I'm also selling it thru
several Bricklink stores.
Here's what my commercial page looks like...
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=672023
And here's my first 2 Bricklink sellers.... selling (under Books/Other).
USA
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=legobanker
and
Netherlands
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=vissern
Again, no shipping or Customs fees!
Here's what a leery buyer had to say (he wanted the DVD at first)....
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Thank you.
That download site is amazing, it delivered as fast as my ISP download speed
could take it. I have a nice fast download speed, and the file downloaded in
just 1 minute and 40 seconds.
I have had a quick skim through a couple of sections of the guide, and look
forward to having a proper read later.
Really glad you’ll get the house back!
Jxxxxxxx
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And future upgrades will be available FREE every 6 months for you to download!
No more versions of the DVD or CD... all future upgrades are free!
Cheers,
Gary Istok
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As I've said, the nice thing about having the new DVD download is that future
updates will be free...
I've been getting some recent LEGO treasure images from TLG Archives and
elsewhere...
For example... the earliest retailer LEGO box is this one that dates to 1954-56
(Denmark only) that was for the earliest Automatic Binding Bricks windows/doors
(1949-56) and the new LEGO Mursten tall classic windows/doors. This retailer
box image (unknown in any private collection) was shared by the LEGO Archives
folks, who had to do some digging to find it when I inquired about how old LEGO
windows/doors were stored. They finally found this LEGO beauty... it would
probably go for 2000-3000 Euros (or more!) if one ever came up for auction...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/istokg/8071856469/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/istokg/8071853970/in/photostream
Or some of the wonderful colors that windows came in back in the mid 1950s (for
30 years afterwards TLG made us choose mainly between red and white!!)...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/8037218503/
Or did you ever wonder about LEGO sets of Iceland? It seems that a Tuberculosis
Sanitarium provided labor for putting together sets in that country in the 1950s
and 1960s...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/8101938526/
And that LEGO sets and spare parts packs had the name of the Sanitarium on the
boxes....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/8101943414/in/photostream/
Lots of new items never before seen (some of these items were new to the LEGO
Archives as well!!)... that will be in future updates to the LEGO DVD
download... which will be free to current purchasers... only $29.95 total...
that's 23 Euros... or GBP 18.71... or CAN $29.75... or AUD $29.00.
No additional fees and ZERO customs! (Funny how that works... but the countries
of the world haven't figured out how to apply customs to downloads... maybe if
they did so many IT jobs wouldn't end up in India!)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/8101943414/in/photostream/
or
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150915064652?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Download only takes 2-20 minutes to get all 688MB (about 2/3 of a Gigabyte)...
that's 73 chapters and 4 appendices... with all future updates (about every 6
months) free to current purchasers!
Gary Istok
P.S. No Shipping or Customs Fees! Plus I'm putting together and adding new
chapters... one on the history and evolution of LEGO figures from the 1950s HO
Scale figs to the development of the minifigs!
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Oppps... did an incorrecty cut/past.... for purchase...
http://legocollectorsguide.weebly.com/
Cheers,
Gary Istok
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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> http://legocollectorsguide.weebly.com/
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> Cheers,
> Gary Istok
Buy a DVD or download...
and get either 15 mint classic windows 5 1x4x2 and 10 1x2x2 (3 lots
available)...
5 New...
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=453&colorID=5
and 10 New...
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=7026&colorID=5
OR
get 4 mint 1x4x5 red windows with glass... (4 lots available)...
4 New...
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=2493&colorID=5
and 4 New...
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?P=2494&colorID=12
again....
http://legocollectorsguide.weebly.com/
DVD or download...
Special until they run out...
Gary
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