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Re: Star Wars fixes
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Fri, 7 May 1999 05:57:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu (Joshua Delahunty)
writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > 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.

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 1979-80...

____________________________________________________________________________
|                                                                            |
|                                 LEGOLAND SPACE                             |
|____________________________________________________________________________|
|        |                         |              |______FIGURES_____|       |
|SET No. |       SET NAME          | INTERLOCKING |  MEN   |   MEN   | AXLES |
|________|_________________________|____PIECES____|_(RED)__|_(WHITE)_|_______|
|        |                         |              |        |         |       |
|  442   |  SPACE SHUTTLE          |        35    |    -   |     1   |    -  |
|  452   |  MOBILE TRACKING STATION|        65    |    -   |     1   |    4  |
|  453   |  CRATER PLATES          |         2    |    -   |     -   |    -  |
|  454   |  LANDING PLATES         |         2    |    -   |     -   |    -  |
|  462   |  ROCKET LAUNCHER        |        60    |    1   |     1   |    5  |
|  483   |  ALPHA-1 ROCKET BASE    |       170    |    1   |     2   |    4  |
|  487   |  SPACE CRUISER          |       155    |    1   |     1   |    2  |
|  493   |  SPACE COMMAND CENTER   |       161    |    2   |     2   |    4  |
|  497   |  GALAXY EXPLORER        |       325    |    2   |     2   |    2  |
| 6000   |  LEGOLAND IDEA BOOK     |         -    |    -   |     -   |    -  |
| 6861   |  X-1 PATROL CRAFT       |        53    |    1   |     -   |    -  |
| 6901   |  MOBILE LAB             |       123    |    1   |     1   |    6  |
| 6970   |  BETA-1 COMMAND BASE    |         ?    |    2   |     2   |    2  |
|________|_________________________|______________|________|_________|_______|
|        |                         |              |        |         |       |
| TOTALS:|                         |     1152?    |   11   |    13   |   29  |
|________|_________________________|______________|________|_________|_______|


Apparently I hadn't yet obtained 6970 at that time, and also thought that it
was interesting to track the number of wheel-axles in the vehicles.  :-)
Also, little did I know that *yellow* spacemen were just around the corner in
1982.

--Todd

* Except that the file has been converted to ASCII from an old dedicated word
processor format** which had real vertical bars and underlines.

** CPT 8000



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  Re: Star Wars fixes
 
(...) 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 (27 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

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