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    Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories —Mike Faunce
     A lot of what you guys are talking about goes right over my head as I'm not as familiar with set numbers vs. content as you all seem to be, but I've got some input "from a lowly user": I am an avid boater and SCUBA diver, I also like LEGO and (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
    
         Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories —Todd Lehman
     (...) This is great input, Mike! (...) Would you like it if there were alternative views such as this?-- : | \-- aquatic (33% sub-set of terra-world) | |-- under-water (100% sub-set of water) | | | |-- Aquazone (100% sub-set of under-water) | | | (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
   
        Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories —Todd Lehman
     (...) Let's take a 90-degree turn and explore that more... What are all the possible dimensional attributes of sets and/or themes? - subject matter . type of model (plane, train, automobile, etc.) . scale (minifig, maxifig, microfig, etc.) . (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
    
         Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) Other here includes historical time period (past, present, future) and/or maybe, a measure of probability/realism? What I am getting at is that Pirates is in the past, and fairly "real" (1). Some castle is in the past and "real", (Dark forest) (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
    
         Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) That second Mtron is supposed to be UFO, sorry about that. (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
   
        Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories —Todd Lehman
   (...) Here's another example of where purely word-based attributes can lead things astray -- I just noticed this: (URL) says that "egypt" contains "pyramid", which makes sense. OK so far. But -- if you click on "pyramid", (URL) comes up with this (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
 

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