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Re: the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 23 May 2001 15:39:57 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> That kind of DOES beg the question, to all you completists out there (and I
> know, I know, complete is by definition what it means to *you*).
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> If you already have RBR, do you need to get the new RBR to remain complete?
> Conversely, if you did not already have RBR, would getting just the new one
> make you complete?
I guess I'm not qualified to answer, since I'm not really a
devout completist. I'm happy owning all the pirate ships but missing
a few of the bases, for example.
When the completist bug hits me, as it does in the Space and Castle
lines, I tend towards being a model-completist, not a set-number
completist. I wouldn't buy re-issues of a set just so I could
mark off a new set number for the same model. There have been
times when a space set, for example, was released under two
different numbers as a promo set and as a regular set, and I
don't bother to get both.
Now, if the re-issue was different in some significant material way
(say they re-released the Blacktron sets, but came up with new torso
printings), I'd probably buy the sets. But then, I'd buy them anyway,
since they're such cool sets. That's why I'm don't really bother
being a completist - on a limited lego budget, if it's a choice between
buying a set I don't really like just so I could say I was 'complete'
in that line for a year, or a choice of buying multiple copies of a really
cool set in a different line for the pieces or the minifigs, I usually
go with the later.
In any event, a new box and set number wouldn't convince me that a
person would need to buy it to be 'complete' in that line, since it's
the model that counts, not the set number. IMHO.
--
Jeff <jthompson@esker.com> "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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