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Re: A Technic set DB outline
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Tue, 1 Dec 1998 21:50:50 GMT
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Joshua Delahunty <dulcaoin@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu> writes:
> In case accuracy WRT TLG is important here, the actual hierarchy looks
> like the following (I may never forgive Todd for his invention of the
> term "subtheme" :-P)
Eh, whenever did I invent that term? And what have I done to popularize it?
The weird term I made up for the FLG was "series." I don't like subtheme
either, unless there is also the concept of supertheme -- as in subcategory
and supercategory. But I'm not well-versed in taxonomic terms.
> Product Programme
> +- Product Line
> +- Product Theme
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> "Race" is a theme in the "Town System" Product Line which is part of
> the "LEGO System" Product Programme (other PP's are DUPLO and
> TECHNIC). Product lines and themes can be variously referred to as
> "line" (no product in front) or "series".
>
> The hierarchy comes from TLG documentation that was put out late-80s
> early-90s, which very specifically spelled out the entire product
> offering at that time. Lately, there has been further and further
> blurring of the idea of Product Line versus Theme, so this may no
> longer apply, but please note that "subtheme" has never been, strickly
> speaking, correct.
Roit!
--Todd
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| (...) 'Subtheme' was a term you suggested back in the days when Fibblesnork was more of a living entity, and you suggested that some terminology be laid out. It's the one that took off after that discussion. I don't think it was so much a case of "I (...) (28 years ago, 2-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| (...) In case accuracy WRT TLG is important here, the actual hierarchy looks like the following (I may never forgive Todd for his invention of the term "subtheme" :-P) Product Programme +- Product Line +- Product Theme "Race" is a theme in the "Town (...) (28 years ago, 1-Dec-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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