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Re: Monorail Question
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:17:46 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> writes:
> Joshua Delahunty wrote:
> > > Nick Goetz wrote:
> > > > I am hoping that someone can fill in the gap. I believe there are three
> > > > monorail sets. I am aware of 6991 Unitron and 6399 Airport.
> >
> > Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > why Airport shuttle isn't 6993 will always be a mystery to me. It's not
> > > used, nor is 6992.
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> > 69xx is space.
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> > The Airport Shuttle is Town, hence 63xx (could've been 66xx or 65xx, but
> > 6399 is where it came up at the time it was released).
> >
> > Since 6921 (accessory track) was released with the first shuttle (a
> > space shuttle set), it has the space designation.
> >
> > Since 6347 (the second set of of the accessory track) was released in
> > 1991 with the Airport Shuttle, it got a town number.
> >
> > All the track is the same, of course.
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> Well that's certainly the generally accepted theory. But to me, of
> course, the fact that they are Monorail trascends the theme and should
> have been the superior factor in deciding the numbering scheme to be
> used for the sets and the track packs.
Space Boy jumpin' in here... To me, the monorail sets definitely fall into
"Space" and "Town" as themes (systems) because of their numberings and
because of their constituent elements. IMM (in my mind), Monorail sets
don't transcend themes because they're just general-use parts like
baseplates or bricks. (And hey, those stanchions appear in zillions of
other sets.) But maybe it's more from the observation that the
Unitron/Space mind-label "pulls" more than the Monorail mind-label for Space
nuts.
Hey, how come Trains isn't a theme inside the Town system? (Philosophically
speaking, rather than from-the-numbers.)
> Another example: 3225 is also numbered wrong, there is no reason it
> should not have gotten a 45xx number.
Baffled by that one too. Wonder if it was a limited-release.
> That's just my perspective, of course, not TLG's. But there's no arguing
> with it. The three big mono sets should have had 3 consecutive numbers,
> or 3 numbers from a block of about 10, with the accessory packs numbered
> logically. Theme is unimportant when measured against "is it train or
> not?" ... :-)
Next week I want to talk about the subject of an all-encompassing theme
taxonomy tree/graph over in the .database ng -- it'll allow us all to make
designations that 6399 is both a Town set and a Monorail set, and that 6991
is both a Space/Unitron set and a Monorail set. We'll be able to have
official as well as unofficial labels and sub-categories, so that, for
example, we can separate the Egypt/desert Adventurer sets from the
Amazon/jungle Adventurer sets even though they don't yet have official theme
names in the Adventurers system (note that they do have different logos
already). We'll also be able to handle oddities like 6816 (which is really
a UFO set but incorrectly says Exploriens on the U.S. polybag and correctly
says U.F.O. on the non-U.S. boxed version 6800) and 6199 (which is 95% a
Hydronauts set and 5% a Stingrays set but says Stingrays on the box). But
more on all that later.
--Todd
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