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Re: So TLC can build and sell decent sets if they really want to...
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Tue, 25 May 2004 21:32:56 GMT
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 17:42:24 GMT, "Ed McGlynn" <ejmcglynn@netzero.net>
wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Jonathan Lopes wrote:
> > In lugnet.general, Ed McGlynn wrote:
> >
> > > > >
> > > > > <http://robothek.bei.t-online.de/Lego/Katalog6.jpg>
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> > Try replacing the "6" with other (lower) numbers after 'Katalog' in the url & it
> > will appear to be a page from a catalog.
>
> Yes, that's how I came to my conclusion, among other things you can glean from
> the web. The timestamp for the other Katalog files is the same, while Katalog6
> is about a half hour later. The homepage from the owner's German eBay "Me" site
> refers to their brickshelf gallery, as well as a "Building Joke 2003" but the
> link's no loger asociated with the webpage text. Could this be "Building Joke
> 2004?"
>
> The Katalog6 picture's probable owner, Thekla, has a brickshelf gallery with
> similar tilework in it:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=14989
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> If I was making up a spoof set, it'd better have stuff I wanted in it! This
> fills their need to more tiles from LEGO, so there's a future expansion to the
> Taj Mahal, perhaps...
>
> >
> > For my uses, the tiles would be nice. I imagine some people would like the red
> > slopes. But, as far as the construction or this being a set, I am not that
> > impressed. It looks dated, almost like a set from the 70's. Plenty of FOL's
> > could build way better things. It is nice to see a set built from 'bricks'
> > though.
>
>
> ...but LEGO didn't design it!
>
> > Jonathan
What I find strange is the two windows being so close together there's
no room for shutters, and more importantly, the grey round plate in
the column is a brick too high. Lego would never publish a photo of a
set with a mistake like that.
Duq
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