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Re: So TLC can build and sell decent sets if they really want to...
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Date: 
Tue, 25 May 2004 15:40:29 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.general, Christian Treczoks wrote:
Dear AFOLs,

found this in the discussion forums of 1000steine.de - a big thanks to
Thekla for the picture.

<http://robothek.bei.t-online.de/Lego/Katalog6.jpg>

Can you get a little better provenance on this for us? I've been fooled by fakes
before... this one has some aspects that make it look fake to me. But then my
German isn't good enough to puzzle out everything it says and I am too lazy to
type it in again or OCR it so babelfish can translate it.

Seems fake to me.  The context of the web address indicates that this was
supposed to be a page from a catalog, but it's not.  It's a single sheet of
printed material, with a white edge, no page number, and elusive text
description.  No way would LEGO produce a set with bulk trees that look like
that instead of standard ones.

Ed



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  Re: So TLC can build and sell decent sets if they really want to...
 
(...) Try replacing the "6" with other (lower) numbers after 'Katalog' in the url & it will appear to be a page from a catalog. For my uses, the tiles would be nice. I imagine some people would like the red slopes. But, as far as the construction or (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.general)
  Re: So TLC can build and sell decent sets if they really want to...
 
(...) *snip* (...) My appetite for crow is about to be satisfied... I stand corrected. 4886 lives. Ed (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: So TLC can build and sell decent sets if they really want to...
 
(...) Can you get a little better provenance on this for us? I've been fooled by fakes before... this one has some aspects that make it look fake to me. But then my German isn't good enough to puzzle out everything it says and I am too lazy to type (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.general)

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