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Re: A new scan for 371 (fake?)
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 17 May 2000 16:44:36 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke writes:
> In lugnet.general, Michael Huffman writes:
> > Just went through a bunch of instuctions that I won on
> > e-Bay last year. I was going through them so I
> > could give them to a friend & started looking them up
> > on Lugnet so he could get an idea of what I had &
> > didn't find this one listed. Looks like there's a
> > third #371. ;) Here's the cover:
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> > http://www.mindspring.com/~mhuffman/picts/0371-01.jpg
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> > The rest have been uploaded to Brickshelf.
> >
> > --Mike.
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> Well done work, but it's not April the first today....
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> I think this could be a faked instruction:
Doesn't look like a fake to me... but a MUCH better job of faking than I've
ever seen if it IS a fake... There are too many little details that'd need to
be faked to make this worthwhile...
> - to much plates used
Well, I have 332 (Tow Truck) which also had a good plates to brick ratio... I
don't think it's a terribly invalid design... plus, they weren't as concerned
about juniorization back then..
> - not to find in any old catalogue
That's true for a lot of sets... and not all catalogs have been found and
scanned by the fan population, mind you..
> - where's the battery box?
Well, the battery box isn't pictured. I seem to remember that being done in
some other sets... either that or you'd have a wire trailing off somewhere off
camera... and granted that the motor appears to be under the cab (and fits with
the old style design pretty well, I might add), it might look a little silly to
add it into the picture. I expect it would be left out.
> - the exhaust falls off to easy
True, but poor design never stopped TLC from making a set.
> - to nice to be true
Why's that? I think it looks like a very plausible old set, and if I remember
correctly, very on par with the other sets pictured in my old catalogs at home
(one of which HASN'T been posted anywhere, [but I did slip one copy to Kevin
Loch at one of our NELUG meetings... just never made it up, I suppose].. I'll
have to check tonight to see if this truck is mentioned in the catalog I have.)
> - take a clooser look at upper right edge of picture: looks like photo glued
> on old instruction.
Looks more to me like it's just the black border that runs around the picture
creating that effect, not actually a shadow from a raised picture. Besides, the
crinkle on the left hand side protrudes its way on both the border AND the
picture-- another tough thing to fake (and EXTREMELY well done if so) There's
also other scuff on the scan that make it look plausible, not to mention that
the other two existing 371's DON'T have the same cover design with the number
"371" on it, making it even more work to fake the number 371, especailly with
the discoloration...
> just my thought....
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> Ben
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> (fake expert)
> http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~rbeneke/lego/misc/misc.html#fun
Well, my hat goes off to your April fools day fakes-- they had me going for the
first minute I looked at them... But this one has me completely fooled if it is
truely a fake. One main reason for that being: Why? Why on Earth would you
BOTHER faking this set? Your April Fools fakes actually got people excited
about something NEW, but this is something old... People will most likely not
really care so much about this set.. Why go through the hassle of faking it?
(and doing a PHENOMENALLY good job if so)
Anyway, looks real enough to me.
DaveE
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