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Subject: 
Table of Recorded First Sightings of Catalogs (was: Re: 2000 catalog)
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:52:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, "Daniel van Berkel" <dvanberkel@yahoo.com> writes:

I wrote:

I remember the 1998 catalog showed up in october '97.....and it is almost 2000
now!


I meant that end october '97, i bought my first divers-set and it contained a
mini-1998 catalog

The 1998 catalog actually first showed up on October 6, 1997 (early
October), and that way *very* early for a full catalog to show up.  The
rumor going around at that time was that the printing company who printed
catalogs for TLG in the U.S. had made a printing-ratio mistake and hadn't
printed enough of the '97 catalogs compared to the '98 catalogs, and when it
came time to deliver the catalogs to TLG, they were all out of '97 catalogs
and could only deliver '98 catalogs.  Some kind of queueing or print-run
scheduling problem.

Anyway, statistically, we're still a week or two away from a "truly telling"
sheet catalog and about three to four weeks away from a full catalog.
Here's a chart of recorded "first sightings":


============================================================================

        RECORDED FIRST SIGHTINGS OF OFFICIAL LEGO PRODUCT CATALOGS


Product
   Year    Discovered     Size    Discovered By
-------   -----------   ------   ------------------------------------------

   1994    16 Nov 1993   Sheet1   Bob Devaney <devaney@axp3.acf.nyu.edu>
   1994     4 Dec 1993   Poster   Lance Visser <visser@convex.com>
   1994     5 Dec 1993   Sheet2   Lance Visser <visser@convex.com>
   1994     5 Dec 1993   Full     Lance Visser <visser@convex.com>

   1995    17 Nov 1994   Full     Brian F. Peters <brian.peters@bentley.com>

   1996    25 Nov 1995   Full     Ryan Smith <wraith@tiac.net>

   1997    16 Nov 1996   Sheet    Serena & Norm <serenanorm@aol.com>
   1997     1 Dec 1996   Full     Lou Zucaro <lou@pause.com>

   1998     6 Oct 1997   Full     Lani Lawson <lani@seanet.com>

   1999    30 Oct 1998   Sheet    Irving De la Cruz <irvingd@halcyon.com>
   1999     4 Dec 1998   Full     Johnny Cooker <jhncooker@webtv.net>

   2000    15 Oct 1998   Sheet1   Martin Tuck <martin.tuck@diamond.co.uk>

============================================================================


--Todd



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  Re: 2000 catalog
 
(...) I meant that end october '97, i bought my first divers-set and it contained a mini-1998 catalog (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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