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Re: Is Lego the most complex collectible toy of all time?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:54:47 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:
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> ... with over 10,000 Lego parts in a zillion colors (so it seems), and
> thousands upon thousands of Lego sets... is Lego the most complex
> collectible toy of all time? What I mean is: is there another toy that
> has that many different sets/parts?
Not equally complex, but quite interesting: The old Ankersteine/Anchor
Stones
http://www.ankerstein.org/
The product was created ~1880, and the old factory has been revived and is
still making stones and sets.
I'll try to find out how many sets and parts there are (the color palette is
certainly limited).
The original creator was quite inventive (marketwise), and introduced basic
'stepped' sets (set 1 + set 1a --> set 2 etc.), bulk sales and custom parts
(which makes the actual part counting a bit difficult).
Note that I'm a bit partial, as the Anker community is using my AnkerCAD
program to produce their new drawings :-)
What about Meccano? Isn't that a quite complex system with lots of parts
(especially if you count the modern version with a lot of plastic parts too,
also increasing the set count)? I don't have any numbers, but I suppose they
could be found somewhere...
--
Anders Isaksson, Sweden
AnkerCAD: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/ankercad.htm
Gallery: http://web.telia.com/~u16122508/agallery/
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| OK, I was at a Barnes & Noble Bookstore in downtown Detroit yesterday and I was looking at a book on antique toys (I do this often trying in vain to find something on Lego). And these thick books talk about everything from Lincoln Logs to Erector (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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