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Re: Old LEGO
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Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:36:50 GMT
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> I really like your idea of gathering this information together in some sort
> of 'archives' on a webpage. Gary Istok has written some terrific articles
> that have appeared on LUGNET. They can be found using this URL that Todd
> put together:
I've read Gary's posts several times, and I am glad someone got them all in
one place! I think it would be great to have some pictures to go along with
Gary's
educational series, too. Although, I never got the impression that anyone
here was bothered by Gary's long posts, I have to guess that some people aren't
too interested in this old stuff. If I am going to be asking a lot of
questions about this type of stuff, I don't want to be bothering people who
aren't interested. So, I thought it would be wise to have a sub group for old
LEGO enthusiasts, where we can talk about these things, ask stupid questions,
figure things out. I'd be glad to ask my questions here; hopefully I will get
the answers - I am of an inquisitve nature and don't want to be a bother to
uninterested readers. Sometimes I feel like Gary must dread my emails,
with so many questions! Also, .general is so general that it is hard to find
things about old LEGO specifically - it would be nice if others who come along
with a mutual interest could be able to get caught up on the well known and the
little known without reading 17,000+ posts to the general group.
OTOH, if only a small number of people are going to participate regularly in
such a group, I suppose that could be done equally as well by email, as it has
been in my experience, and I don't see much reason for a new group either. On
the occasions when i can't find an answer through emailing, I could ask
here... I
am really excited about the new infos I have come across, and perhaps general
readership will be more open to it than I expect!
> http://www.lugnet.com/?p=history-of-lego
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> Of course there are no pictures. :)
His words are pretty descriptive, and pictures are hard to come up with, but
I think there is room for some improvement in that aspect, too.
> So perhaps using some existing materials (with Gary's permission, of
> course) and contributions from others (box art and other scans) and perhaps
> people writing about a particular old set that they themselves own and
> love, you might have the makings of a very unique website. It would
> certainly be one that I would visit and attempt to contribute to.
Gary and I discussed before doing a page on Parts Packs of the 50s and 60s,
and I did get some pictures up, but I feel that some info is needed, as well as
quite a few more pictures, to make the page complete.
I also would like to get pictures of the sets and of the boxes, for the sets
that could be combined with the Town Plan board. I don't have many of those
sets myself, so hopefully someone out there may be able to take some pictures.
I also really like the idea of getting people who own these old sets to
offer reviews... I think just about every set of the past twenty years has a
review, and it would be nice to have reviews going farther back.
> I personally think that the LUGNET.GENERAL group would be a fine group to
> use when discussing such a project, but of course that's a busy group.
> What about .PUBLISHING since it would be discussions about a website. Or
> what about .EDUCATION since it would be about educating people about the
> history of LEGO? Just my thoughts.
I think I agree with you, after mulling it over, .general is a fine place
for this, being exposed to a large number of readers who can share their
knowledge and excitement, and .publish always serves its purpose well - there
are a lot of smart developers in that group who can help with any
implementation problems. I have to go eat dinner now, Happy Easter! John
> Regards,
> Allan
> --
> Expert Builder Website - The Megaproject Showcase
> http://www.execulink.com/~apotome/expert.htm
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| (...) I have been thinking about this topic for a very long time. My take on this is that in lugnet.general, the most people will be exposed to the history behind LEGO. If we were to make say a lugnet.history, or a lugnet.classic, perhaps a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) sort (...) articles (...) Todd (...) to (...) has a (...) While most of my original collection dates from 20 - ~27 years ago, I would love to write a 'Classic Review' of some of them, if anyone was interested. While they're not as classic (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| John DiRienzo <ig88888888@stlnet.com> wrote in article <FtH1zz.13A@lugnet.com>... (...) growing (...) people (...) Systems have (...) John, as much as I love your idea, I'm one who thinks LUGNET may already be too segmented by too many different (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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