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Re: US and UK catalogues different
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Date: 
Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:42:25 GMT
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Simon,

Yes, I noticed that as well, in regards to the US & European catalogs.
One of the places we get the set names and the like is from the US Shop
At Home Service catalog. They have the names, and some names for the
mini-figs as well. Back a few years ago, they had all the names in the
catalogs, but I guess the US education system is so bad now, they would
rather put pictures in and leave out the text.

Another great place to get the info is Pause magazine! :) I put together
a Excel sheet of my sets, and Pause helped me out tremendously! Ah, for
the good ol days.....

Scott Sanburn
Simon Robinson wrote:

I've just received my first US catalogue as a result of swapping
with my UK ones - and I can't believe how different they are.

Sure, the sets are mostly the same, and a lot of the pictures are
pretty similar but the design's completely different apart from that.
The US/Canada one is a lot smaller and
has hardly any text, whereas in the UK we get set names
and write-ups about each set. Plus we often get descriptions of who
the various minifigs are (lots of them have names)
and what they are doing (though not as much this
year as last year) - there doesn't seem to be any of that in the US/Canada
one.

Where do all the US set names that people use to refer to sets on the
Internet come from, since there aren't any names in the catalogue?

Simon
http://www.SimonRobinson.com



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I've just received my first US catalogue as a result of swapping with my UK ones - and I can't believe how different they are. Sure, the sets are mostly the same, and a lot of the pictures are pretty similar but the design's completely different (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)

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