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Re: Reconstructing second hand LEGO sets
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Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:10:06 GMT
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Terry K <legoverse@geocities.com> wrote in message news:376c2064.7506701@lugnet.com...
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 02:33:13 GMT, "Brian H. Nielsen"
> <70401.2635@compuserve.com> wrote:
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> > I recently bought a medium size jumble of LEGO pieces and am trying to
> > sleuth out and reconstruct the original sets (there are no instructions). I've
> > done extensive browsing through the Fibblesnork LEGO Guide identifying
> > candidate sets from some of the unique pieces in the mix and have had some
> > small successes. The going is slow and I am hampered by the previous owner's
> > apparent tendency to lose LEGO pieces. With substantial numbers of parts
> > missing from the sets I believe I am reconstructing I'm not 100% sure I'm
> > reconstructing the correct sets. I know most of the sets are from the Classic
> > Space, Blacktron I, Space Police, Futuron, and M-Tron, with a couple from Town
> > and at least one Technic set.
> >
> > Is there any reference material available which catalogs the sets that
> > specific parts appeared in? With this in hand I could much more easily choose
> > candidate sets for reconstruction. I feel like an archaeologist holding a
> > femur and a tooth figuring out what dinosaur they came from!
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Brian
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> There is the LEGO Parts List link on James Jessiman's page. This list
> references part numbers by what colors and sets they came in, and how many in
> the set.
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> Sadly, with James passing, the list has not been updated in a long time. But
> with older sets it is still quite useful.
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> Of course, there have been many changes to the part numbers in LDraw, which can
> confuse things as the page uses original numbers he had. But with a little
> searching, you can usually track down what is needed.
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> http://silo.riv.csu.edu.au/~jjessiman/lego/index.html or
> http://silo.riv.csu.edu.au/~jjessiman/lego/legopart.html
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> -- Terry K --
This really is a great resourse. I don't know if it's exhaustive, though, even for the years it covers. I seem to recall finding
some of these parts in other sets from the period, but it was over a year ago, so I may remember incorrectly.
Does anyone have the database on which these pages were based? I'm assuming they are based on a big pot of inventories somewhere.
I think a link to this page should be added to the lugnet.inv page.
-John Van
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| (...) No, I don't believe it is exhaustive. And many numbers used (element numbers) have been changed. (...) Good question. James may have had a database, or maybe he just kept track in some simple way. I think Joshua did help him some with that (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) It's not exhaustive, from any point-of-view. I think James documented the sets he had, for the pieces he could put online. Awhile ago, I created a utility to reformat the data by set. It quickly became apparent there were pieces missing for (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) There is the LEGO Parts List link on James Jessiman's page. This list references part numbers by what colors and sets they came in, and how many in the set. Sadly, with James passing, the list has not been updated in a long time. But with (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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