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Re: what makes a legend?
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Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:41:55 GMT
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How about a book of legends? Reprint the old contruction manuals from sets
in the 60s - 80s in one large book. Sets that you cannot/will not reissue,
so that the book won't compete with your own products. The plans on
Brickshelf are generally not clear enough to really use.

I have a huge collection of Lego, so I can probably build most anything. I
only wish that I had kept the books from my early sets. I still have the
parts, just no directions on how to build the old sets.

You could put a premium price on the book, it would still probably sell
quite well.

In lugnet.lego.direct, Brad Justus writes:
We're having a debate here in the ABS-paved halls of LEGO Direct that I'd
like to throw open to the community.

The topic is: what makes a LEGO Legend a legend? Or, more precisely, if we
cannot bring back a set precisely as it was (or pretty darn close), can it
still qualify as a Legend?




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  Re: what makes a legend?
 
(...) A terrific idea Dan. 'The Ultimate Instruction Book'. A companion piece to 'The Ultimate LEGO Book'. (...) But why not put a reasonable price on it? LEGO already puts a premium price on every brick we buy. The work on these instructions is (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: what makes a legend?
 
(...) ?? I have never found this to be the case, can you provide some examples? Brickshelf scans are typically at very very high resolution. As good or better as the print quality itself and images printed from them are as good as any reproduction (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: what makes a legend?
 
I'm sure a 'series' of reprints would sell well. RW (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
  Re: Book of Legends
 
The book of legends is a GREAT idea. Maybe they could even make a whole encyclopedia style set of chronologically arranged instructions. (Yeah, right. Just call me the king of wishful thinking.) Another more realistic posibility would be a legends (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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  what makes a legend?
 
We're having a debate here in the ABS-paved halls of LEGO Direct that I'd like to throw open to the community. The topic is: what makes a LEGO Legend a legend? Or, more precisely, if we cannot bring back a set precisely as it was (or pretty darn (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct) !! 

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