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Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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Sat, 9 Jan 1999 08:12:04 GMT
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Also sprach Todd Lehman:
: There might be 4 or 5 (or more) sub-categories of classic Space -- for
: example, a little specialized category for the 3 ships in the Galaxy
: Explorer family, and categories for the whole original blue/yellow/gray
: collection of sets.
I'm relieved to see you say this. I've always recognized 'classic'
space to have several 'generations', although they overlap a lot. It's
tempting to classify the 3-digit sets together, but that style clearly
continued into the 4-digit numbering system. 6861 (X-1 Patrol Craft)
and 6970 (Beta-1 Command Base) continue the blue/grey/yellow style, for
example, and I think belong in some kind of meta-category with the
original 3-digit sets. (6970 had town-style windows, but they were
still yellow) But in the same year they released 6901 (Mobile Lab)
which was obviously a new color sceme ...
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| (...) I -almost- made sub-categories of the so-called "classic" Space in the Fibblesnork LEGO Guide but was talked out of it (I think by Steve Bliss) by being shown many examples of boundary-straddling sets. But the FLG has hard-line boundaries, so (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: Official and Unofficial theme categories
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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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