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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 (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: what makes a legend? —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | (...) 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)
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| | | | | Re: what makes a legend? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) ?? 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)
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| | | | | | | Re: what makes a legend? —Ronan Webb
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| | | | | | | I think the point is that to work with the (excellent) brickshelf instructions usually requires being able to print in hi res at some point. This is not always an option. RW (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | Re: what makes a legend? —Dan Dickerson
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| | | | | | (...) #398 USS Constellation is missing step #15. There are several others with problems, but I can't remember exactly which ones. It is often the Technic plans that are not clear. As Ronan Webb said, the problem is in the printing. High resolution, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what makes a legend? —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | | | "Dan Dickerson" <dickersn@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:GLnGCG.424@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) front (...) doing (...) I would love to see LEGO make older instructions and Idea books available for download from their web site as (...) (23 years ago, 23-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what makes a legend? —Tim David
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| | | | | | (...) The scans on brickshelf are a useful reference and i have found them very useful, but you can't, for example lie in bed and read them and dream (bout all i do when it comes to lego!) <snip> (...) To download and print out costs time and money (...) (23 years ago, 24-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: what makes a legend? —Ronan Webb
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| | | | | I'm sure a 'series' of reprints would sell well. RW (...) (23 years ago, 21-Oct-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | | | | Re: Book of Legends —David Gregory
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| | | | 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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