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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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| | Pause: 6470
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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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| | bad link to brickshelf
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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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| | Re: Differences with Trains
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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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(...) TTBOMK being... To The Best Of My Knowledge...? ... something I should add to the acro FAQ...? -Shiri btw, MSRP stands for...? (I know what it is, just not the acro). (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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As promised, scans of new polybags are "en route" (plus some other, Todd ) :) 4811 - on the instruction sheet, it says it's set number 4801/4811 - so I guess a pause entry needs to be added with a note saying that it's the same set. The piece count (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I can confirm that I actually had one of these sets in my posession in 1978; I got it in Toronto at a convention my dad was attending. -Cheese (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) U.S.) (...) My educated guess is that there were only 4 released in 1978. While I no longer have instructs for 462 Rocket Launcher, I'll take it that it was 1978, because it was the first space set I ever bought (I bought two :) though I could (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Say...on that note... A question for Space historians out there... Which Space sets *were* released in 1978??? For sure, there are these 4: 1. <set:897> Launcher (a.k.a. <set:462> Rocket Launcher in the U.S.) 2. <set:918> Space Transport (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: The Mystery of the non existent Hospital
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(...) Wow, ya-mon, that looks a *lot* like a real set! Even looks like it's got a helicopter landing pad on the roof. Wouldn't it be cool if 626 (a 1978 set) was that helicopter? :-) --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: town jr. scans
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(...) ok, we'll make some trials, and give you some options... :) btw, we uploaded some pics last night (I think 5 sets?)... just FYI. :) Dan (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Ya, how about a composite, if it's easy to stick them together and they line up nicely, otherwise two separate ones is fine and I'll figure out something. --Todd (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Well, we finally got our new scanner [1] and wanted to scan some more pics for the pause DB. We came across 6422 - and didn't know what to do. The set comes with two instruction sheets, like most town jr. sets. How should we scan those? a pic of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: 1097 and 1099
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(...) And a capital "E" and a capital "S". (...) Ahh -- yes -- OK, that's just grand!! :) (...) Super! --Todd (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.admin.database)
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