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(...) This is the same Ultimate LEGO Book that has two different years for "the first LEGO wheels"? Not just two different, conflicting dates in the same book, but on the same page, in two adjacent paragraphs! Argh. Darn marketing/public relations (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Off-topic: Cars are not really dated that way. Automobiles have a model year. October 1st is the new year for cars, which is why the 2000 models came out in October. There are also those 2000 models that come out earlier. The Oldsmobile Aurora (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) My memory of seeing the first minifig spaceman is a summer memory, and it was before 1979 started. I guess it could have been a warm Texas December though! A kid up the block had got his first Rocket Launcher and mutilated and destroyed it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I noticed that while looking through it the other day, and cringed. (Hey, I'm a proud pedant! :-) Not only did the writer there use the word "kit" instead of "set" or "building set," but the first LEGOLAND Space sets were announced in 1978 -- (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) U.S.) (...) The Ultimate LEGO Book, on page 18, says "1979 First Space Kit." Maybe they date these like cars, you can get the 2001 model in the year 2000, 2000 in 1999, etc. Maybe they call these 1979 models that were released in 1978? Ben (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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6470 Mini-Dump Truck 24 pcs 1 Fig We're uploading a scan tonight. The set can be found on page 26 of the Jan 2000 s@h catalog. We were just scanning a bunch of pics, and ran into this - we don't even have a record of getting it :P Nice friendly (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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set 325-2 (fabuland, it's so cute) says it has instructions on brickshelf, but... those instructions are for 325-3. Same for 325-1, no such instructions on brickshelf. Thanks! (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Oh! -- YES, they are 1978! Ug, I'm forgetting everything this week...where is my brain? (And I still owe you some things.) --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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The 'MOC' two classic space minifigs on a card were copyright 1978, weren't they? EC (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Transmuted Turbo Bidirectional Object Module Kernel (...) Modular Structured Record Protocol --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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