 | | Catalog nostalgia —Tobias Möller
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| | | Take a look at theese two catalog scans from BrickShelf: (URL) compare them to todays catalogs. While the 2000 catalog has a drawn boy with sunglasses, these catalogs have real children in them. There are a lot of text boxes saying how creative you (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Paul Davidson
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| | | | | Yes, Lego has decided that kids nowadays prefer to destroy rather than build, and are attemping to adapt their "building toy" to this trend. Maybe eventually sets will come pre-made, but with big juniorized pieces so that sets can be destroyed (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | (...) If you're interested in what the minifig says while holding the bricks (mainly in the BASIC section): "... tomorrow I create something different" (pag 10) "Al your other Lego parts fit together!" (pag 12) "[Kids] invent the best toys (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Paul Davidson
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| | | | | | You collect Lego catalogues and fliers and stuff? Is there anything you're looking for? As a kid, I never threw any of it away so I still have stuff going back to '83 or so. -- Paul Davidson Frank Buiting <frank.buiting@infopulse.nl> wrote in (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Tony Kilaras
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| | | | | | | Paul Davidson wrote in message ... (...) If you have something that's not on brickshelf, can you scan it in? (24 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Paul Davidson
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| | | | | | | | | They're all just catalogs that Brickshelf has already. I do have catalogs from '81 to '90, though ('82 excepted). -- Paul Davidson Tony Kilaras <kilaras@speedus.com> wrote in message news:FoFp07.n21@lugnet.com... (...) you're (...) stuff (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | | | | (...) I'll also check my collection with that of Brickshelf's. I do have some theme- specific catalogs (Fabuland, Trains sets only catalogs) that I haven't seen on the Brickshelf. -Frank (24 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | | (...) I have all catalogs from '76 up to now I think. Most are in dutch, some in danish (brought them from Legoland Billund). If you have any catalog you want to get rid of you can mail me. Maybe there is that catalog out there that could make my (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —David Simmons
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| | | | | Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message news:FoE7Fp.12E@lugnet.com... (...) I can't. It hurts too much. The older catalogs are so much nicer. The sets are better, the ads aren't beating you in the face. Aaaah, the good old days. (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | | Where are we going with this... Does this herald the advent of the one-piece Lego model? Just think of the latest BURP and imagine it with many (printed) colours... then some stickers and moulded-in features - you could even provide moulded-in (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Ray Sanders
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| | | | | | (...) Jonathan, Your remarks go towards something I have mentioned previously... TLCs motto is (IIRC) 'Play Well'. There seems to be a distinct difference between 'Play Well' and 'Build Well'. Many of us who are interested in building things would (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | | | (...) rich (...) for TLC to (...) Thamks Ray, it's an interesting point which rings a very loud bell with me (by the way, forgive my ignorance but what are KABOBs? I take it to mean children who play with LEGO because of the context used). This (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Tobias Möller
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| | | | | | At their website, I´ve read that their motto is "Only the best is good enough". --Tobias (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Tony Kilaras
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| | | | | Tobias Möller wrote in message ... (...) dutch (...) If you want to get even more depressed so a comparison of Idea books. (24 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Troy Cefaratti
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| | | | | I think that the difference in the catalogs may be representative of who Lego seems to be targetting them to, and this is indicative of the market today. The older catalogs seem to me to be targetted towards parents, and are from a time not so long (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Timothy D. Freshly
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| | | | | | Troy Cefaratti <mnementh@sbase1.com> wrote in message news:FoGo5x.IxE@lugnet.com... (...) from (...) just (...) my (...) Good insight here Tony, I agree. Many of my older catalogs from the 70's and 80's seem to be speaking to the parents (remember (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Catalog nostalgia —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | (...) Sigh indeed. I think the 1985 and 1986 were my favorite years, when I really started collecting sets. I get too upset when I look at these now, and then I look at City Center..... GRRR!!! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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