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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 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

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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(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-04, to lugnet.general)

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