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There is one other set that breaks the rules, the Soccer Stadium starter pack from England, which had a 5 digit number. I still have the invoice somewhere which shows this number, but am currently unable to find it. All of the other sets had had the (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:25:30 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) Adventurers being the main theme, Desert Adventures as the 1st, Jungle Adventures as the 2nd. (...) All of the pre-ninja castle sets are Euro-centric type (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) This is an attribute of availability, just as (US only), or (Shell Stations in Holland) or (Worldwide) are. It has nothing to do with the subject matter of the model. So I would not like to see the categorization muddied up with it. I suspect (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) But given that 2188 is available only on ferries, doesn't that count for something? Its not a ferry per se, but in some way it is related to 'ferry', taking 'ferry' to be a generic term for a group of co-promoting companies. (...) To my mind, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Right -- but fuzzy categories don't necessarily have to add up to 100%. Something like the 1548 Ferry would probably go in as 100% "Stena Line", 100% "ferry" (which could be a sub-category of something associating it with boats), and some (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) :-) (...) I know you said you made this up for the sake of an example, but Nik and I got in a row about this last night so I thought I'd share. I have to credit him for making me scan all the sets and their figs. There don't actually seem to (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) The minifigures are different as well - more in touch with the new style of faces. (...) If someone had the whole line of exploriens and U.F.O's built and had them side by side and then gave someone this set to put into one or the other, I (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> Well, the only question I have a strong opinion on is whether Boats are a part of Town. I am convinced that Lego originally separated Boats from the rest of their product line because the Boats used extremely (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Some initial thoughts in promotional sets in my lunchbreak... Categorising promotional sets will as you suggest be frought with difficulties. That's why I went for the 'keyword' method of categorising them in my database, which can be a type of set (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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[Crossposted to lugnet.admin.database & lugnet.general, with followups set to lugnet.admin.database] * Is LEGO set 1843 (a '96 Space/Castle value pack) actually a value pack containing two sets? Or is it one set with instructions to build two (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.general)
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OK, so here's my whole spiel on themes... This is a medium-term planning thing (1-3 months) and a background task while other stuff goes on. I don't expect we'll have the new theme tree completely worked out before the end of January or Februrary. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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I'm going to post a list here and then -- because the list is so long -- make comments on it as a follow-up article. --Todd ___...___ The following is a snapshot of the theme-categories currently in use in at: (URL) Adventurers Aquazone Castle (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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What is a set? - a bunch of pieces, and - a building instruction booklet, and - a box (or bucket or polybag)? The following are transcripts of notes taken last summer when mulling over the question of how to data-model sets and value packs. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Such as 2 or 3 years from a company called the Lego Group? Regards, Jasper (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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My box cover for set 733 shows that it has 493 pieces. Hope this helps with Pause. Duane (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) That classification doesn't work anymore. TLG is coming out with new themes that don't fit under the big four; Aquazone was the first of these. And besides the theme classifications, there has always been Basic/Freestyle and 'unclassified'. To (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Completely agreed. We don't have to follow the oficial (i.e. TLG) way. Making it in a logical way, apperantly most logical way..:-) Maybe making both at the same time (I mean official and logical classifications) is the best, by using some (...) (26 years ago, 4-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I agree 100% that the current classifications are inconsistent, but I disagree that 1590 and 2140 should be under the one label of Promotional. Yes, whatever category they end up in, they should [almost for sure] both be in the same category, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) 1590 Breakdown Assistance, 1982 2140 Roadside Recovery and Tow Truck, 1996 Grahame Reid (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Carbon 60 wrote in message ... (...) What 2 sets? i'm only aware of one, the flatbed thingy. Which is the other one? (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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