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Re: Star Wars fixes
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Fri, 7 May 1999 04:22:52 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.database, ffilz@mindspring.com (Frank Filz) writes:
[...]
There's actually a can of worms here... Why do we have this one count of
special pieces without any other special pieces counted?

Well, because that's the way Lou started it when he started it.  And it's a
very popular thing (as in, it's something that a lot of people care about
for some reason).  Something special about minifigs.

Also, it's important enough at LSI that the count is listed in each set
description in the LEGO Shop At Home catalog.  This is actually what I
suspected to be the original reason Lou tracked them, actually.

-- joshua



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(...) That's a good reason too! Say, all this speculation about minifigs and what's natural/useful to track led me to go dig up my first Space set listing that I made when I was a kid. FWIW, here it is exactly* as it appeared around Christmastime of (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

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(...) Well, because that's the way Lou started it when he started it. And it's a very popular thing (as in, it's something that a lot of people care about for some reason). Something special about minifigs. (...) Was hoping to (very long-term) get (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

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