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Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Matthew Wilkins

D'oh!! I forgot about set 493! (URL) Command Center. IIRC, this has the same printing on it as the part in the Beta-1 Command Base. -Cheese (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.build)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Todd Lehman

(...) No, the two are different. (Both cool! :) --Todd [followups to .space] (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.space)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Matthew Wilkins

I think 493 was the only set in the 1978 line I didn't have. My childhood LEGO was (like Gaul) divided into three parts; two have been found and are in my posession. The third (almost all of my Space elements, nearly every Space set from 1978-1988) (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Todd Lehman

(...) Say...on that note... A question for Space historians out there... Which Space sets *were* released in 1978??? For sure, there are these 4: 1. <set:897> Launcher (a.k.a. <set:462> Rocket Launcher in the U.S.) 2. <set:918> Space Transport (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Tom McDonald

(...) U.S.) (...) My educated guess is that there were only 4 released in 1978. While I no longer have instructs for 462 Rocket Launcher, I'll take it that it was 1978, because it was the first space set I ever bought (I bought two :) though I could (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Matthew Wilkins

(...) I can confirm that I actually had one of these sets in my posession in 1978; I got it in Toronto at a convention my dad was attending. -Cheese (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Gene C. Weissinger

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Todd Lehman

(...) Oh! -- YES, they are 1978! Ug, I'm forgetting everything this week...where is my brain? (And I still owe you some things.) --Todd (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Ben Gatrelle

(...) U.S.) (...) The Ultimate LEGO Book, on page 18, says "1979 First Space Kit." Maybe they date these like cars, you can get the 2001 model in the year 2000, 2000 in 1999, etc. Maybe they call these 1979 models that were released in 1978? Ben (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Todd Lehman

(...) I noticed that while looking through it the other day, and cringed. (Hey, I'm a proud pedant! :-) Not only did the writer there use the word "kit" instead of "set" or "building set," but the first LEGOLAND Space sets were announced in 1978 -- (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Erik Olson

(...) My memory of seeing the first minifig spaceman is a summer memory, and it was before 1979 started. I guess it could have been a warm Texas December though! A kid up the block had got his first Rocket Launcher and mutilated and destroyed it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Steve Bliss

(...) Was this kid's name Sid, by any chance? Steve (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Selçuk Göre

(...) According to my only 1979 catalog, all space sets were new to 1979. Actually, all of the 1979 catalogs at Brickshelf shows the same and there is no 1978 catalogs with a single space set in it, again according to Brickshelf. I think it's just (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Todd Lehman

(...) That's what all my 1979 catalogs say, too -- and there's no mention of the Space sets in my 1978 catalogs either... But there definitely were at least 2 or 3 "waves" of releases -- one full release for 1979 and one mini release for 1978. The (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Mark Herzberg

(...) Off-topic: Cars are not really dated that way. Automobiles have a model year. October 1st is the new year for cars, which is why the 2000 models came out in October. There are also those 2000 models that come out earlier. The Oldsmobile Aurora (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog —Steve Bliss

(...) This is the same Ultimate LEGO Book that has two different years for "the first LEGO wheels"? Not just two different, conflicting dates in the same book, but on the same page, in two adjacent paragraphs! Argh. Darn marketing/public relations (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)