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I started downloading the instructions back in 1999. Whenever something new became available, I would download it. Slow and steady. Easy like Sunday mornin'. I doubt this bothered Kevin :) Along the way, I would replace brickshelf scans with better (...) (19 years ago, 29-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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Ok, Lego does its own job of hosting instructions at: (URL) TLG was funding BrickShelf, I can see why they would drop this duplicate expense. My questions are: What instructions on BrickShelf are not duplicates of the TLG ones? Is TLG committed to (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) TLG's instruction database is pretty incomplete, though. For example, their themes list doesn't contain Pirates at all, and when I tested a particular Pirate set (6285, Black Seas Barracuda), they had no instructions for it. I think it's great (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, the instructions on LEGO's website only represent recent sets. These instructions compliment those hosted on Brickshelf because of Brickshelf's self imposed rule of not accepting instruction scans from current and recent (1-2 years (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As Joe said, I don't think the issue would be with the instructions themselves-- plus, the gallery is what generates the heaping swaths of traffic from what I understand. Not that the instructions don't generate their own heaping swath, it's (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Heh. I actually bought my kids about 50 pounds of legos off eBay. This was to let them have building blocks that were not Daddy's toys, er, Star Wars "Models". But we didn't have many instructions books. My son and I figured out which sets (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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