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Re: How should Lego items be dated?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 16 Jul 2005 18:27:02 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> > Eric Strand and I had this discussion a few weeks ago, and today Allan Bedford
> > reminded me of this discussion. How should Lego items be dated?
> >
> > As we all know the Lego year goes from autumn to the next autumn, based on the
> > Lego catalog of the particular year. Meaning 2005 items generally are sold from
> > autumn 2004 thru autumn 2005. So even though lets say minifigs came out in the
> > autumn of 1977, do we consider them 1978 items? I have this same problem
> > dealing with all the old Lego items from the 50's thru 70's.
> >
> > What say you?
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> > Gary Istok
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> On a followup note, I do use the catalog year for new items in my Lego CD, but
> for when Lego came to a certain country, I use the actual year. For example,
> Lego may have come to the USA in the autumn of 1961 (1962 catalog) but I still
> would use a 1961 date for when Lego sales first started in the USA. To me that
> is a slightly different way of looking at specific dates.
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> Gary Istok
Gary,
My 0.02 cents
Like cars in the US the model year starts in Sept. Oct. of the previous year
So I think that is appropriate for Lego sets.
Base the year on the catalog year.
Of course the history of when Lego pieces/parts/sets
were first available should be noted with an actual date.
That said, it leads to some confusion.
For example:
Lego first came to Germany in Oct. 1956 (date not correct, just an example)
but the first German sets you will list
will be in 1957, none in 1956.
I can live with this,
and its your CD so you get to decide the presentation.
Looking forward to the CD,
dave
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