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Hi everyone!
This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
following categories:
1) Town
2) Castle
3) Pirates
4) Trains
5) Space
6) Technic
Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
these themes?
Just curious! :-)
Brendan
Duck360198@aol.com
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
>
> 1) Town
> 2) Castle
> 3) Pirates
> 4) Trains
> 5) Space
> 6) Technic
Well, I'm Arctic-complete if that counts :] I'm one set short
of being Divers-complete. I'm a few sets short of Star Wars
complete by choice and will stay that way. I think I'm
Adventurers("Egypt")-complete too, I'll have to check. Wow!
An entire sub-sub-theme! :] I'm also about two-thirds complete
on Classic Space and moving fast.
That's about the best I can shoot for: sub-themes. I don't
think I'd ever even want an entire theme, because many of
them end up with a crap sub-theme at least once..., mostly
from within the past few years. I figure the "complete-killers"
for these major themes would be:
> 1) Town
Town Jr.
> 2) Castle
Fright Knights.
> 3) Pirates
I think these guy's probably made it through okay.
> 4) Trains
They're probably clear too since TLC stopped at the 4561.
> 5) Space
Insectoids. UFO.
> 6) Technic
Throw-junk, stuff in cans, whatever else.
KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Does being complete mean getting every set a particular theme?
If so I probably don't have a single theme that I'm complete in.
I do have sets in a lot of subthemes, especially with the larger sets in
each sub-theme.
I have Flying Ninja's castle, the stone tower bridge, and the robber's
retreat, there are a few more major sets and a few minor sets in this
theme, but I feel that I don't need anymore.
I have the Pharoah's Ruins and the Sphinx Secret Surprise, (and the
scorpion tracker) as well as the River Expedition, and the Amazon Ruins
from the previous two adventures series, as well as the Island Hopper
from the current dino island series in the Adventure sub-theme.
I got 95% of the RES-Q series - getting the Emergency Response Base,
the Boat (the one with the cart and dighy), the Road Rescue vehicle, and
the Emergency Evac vehicle.
That sort of thing. It would be next to impossible to be castle complete,
town complete or space complete, or even train complete.
These have been around for a long, LONG time, and there are several popular
sets, especially in the "golden years" 1989-1996.
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Hello!
>
> Well, I'm Arctic-complete if that counts :] I'm one set short
> of being Divers-complete. I'm a few sets short of Star Wars
> complete by choice and will stay that way. I think I'm
> Adventurers("Egypt")-complete too, I'll have to check. Wow!
> An entire sub-sub-theme! :] I'm also about two-thirds complete
> on Classic Space and moving fast.
>
> That's about the best I can shoot for: sub-themes. I don't
> think I'd ever even want an entire theme, because many of
> them end up with a crap sub-theme at least once..., mostly
> from within the past few years. I figure the "complete-killers"
> for these major themes would be:
>
> > 1) Town
> Town Jr.
>
> > 2) Castle
> Fright Knights.
>
> > 3) Pirates
> I think these guy's probably made it through okay.
>
> > 4) Trains
> They're probably clear too since TLC stopped at the 4561.
>
> > 5) Space
> Insectoids. UFO.
>
> > 6) Technic
> Throw-junk, stuff in cans, whatever else.
>
>
> KDJ
That's really true. There are so many sub themes out there that really make
completing an entire theme undesirable. I probably should have cleared
things up. When I think of completing themes I think of the stuff that came
out between 1980 and 1993 or so. I don't think being complete means having
every set either. You could be castle complete 1984-1990 or Town complete
from 1979 to 1987. You see? I can't stand the Town Jr. crap or Fright
Knight's, Insectoids, etc. This is what makes being complete in an entire
them tough. There aren't too many people that actually do like these
either. So I guess I should clafify. Who is complete in the BEST Castle
sets, the BEST Town sets, the BEST Space sets, etc. etc. etc. Could be
interesting! :-)
Brendan
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Brendan Coughlin wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
>
> 1) Town
> 2) Castle
> 3) Pirates
> 4) Trains
> 5) Space
> 6) Technic
>
> Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
> these themes?
It's a little tricky to define completeness, but by reasonable
qualifications, I'm Wild West complete. By stretched qualifications I'm
Pirate complete (but I don't consider myself to be Pirate Complete).
What I mean by reasonable completeness is to have documentation
supporting having every regular numbered set in a theme. This excludes
service packs, keychains, and other promotional items. Documentation
would include a polybag, box, and or instructions for each set. I have
convinced myself that I have every regular numbered Pirate set, but I
don't have a box for 6251 (but as I was processing a collection I
bought, as I came to the end of the Pirate themed parts, I realized the
set of minifigs which were left was that of 6251, and there is no other
set which has those minifigs). I have bought enough Pirate minifig lots
that even without this strong evidence of having minifigs which probably
came from inside a 6251 box, I will consider myself Pirate regular set
complete as soon as I acquire a 6251 box. I'm also within spitting
distance of being Pirate complete at a more stringent level, in addition
to 6251, all I am missing are all but the latest of the shooting cannon
service packs, a hard cover comic book, a shirt (I didn't bid high
enough on one which was on eBay a week or two ago), and probably a few
other bits (I'm not sure if there's a Pirate keychain for example). I
also don't have every single catalog which features Pirate sets (though
I have a bunch, I at least don't have them in all languages). There are
also sets that I don't have boxes for (6285 comes to mind immediately,
I don't think I have 6271 either). I don't have every box in all
printing variations. I don't have all the sets in unopened condition
(which ultimately would be the only absolute proof of being theme
complete, after all, if you've bought used sets, you might have a
bazillion Pirate Babe's, but they may have all come from inside a 6250
box). I also don't have any Mania Magazines or Brick Kicks, or anything
else like that which feature Pirates.
Even if one allows open boxes, I bet there is no one, not even TLC, who
has one of every single LEGO branded product, even every LEGO branded
product related to LEGO bricks.
Frank
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Frank Filz wrote:
<SNIP>
(I'm not sure if there's a Pirate keychain for example).
<SNIP>
> Frank
Yes there is, Sadly, I used mine on my keychain and it's a lot worse for
the wear. It was a Cap't fig with pegleg and hook hand.
Tamy
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In lugnet.general, Tamyra Teed writes:
> Frank Filz wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> (I'm not sure if there's a Pirate keychain for example).
>
> <SNIP>
> > Frank
>
> Yes there is, Sadly, I used mine on my keychain and it's a lot worse for
> the wear. It was a Cap't fig with pegleg and hook hand.
>
> Tamy
About 6 weeks ago the Virgina Lego outlet had the Capt. Red Beard keychain
and a Majisto the Wizard keychain. And when I was at the Georgia outlet
about 3 weeks ago, they had Majisto (but no Capt. Red Beards). Anyway, they
do phone orders, so you could try your luck and see if they still had any.
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
I have all of the Throwbots. Well, all of the building sets, I didn't bother
getting the extra disks. But I do have one of each character. I
would also like to own a complete set of RoboRiders and Bionicle, but I can't
find Frost or Onyx in stores. Right now, I have
Swamp, Lava, Power and Boss. No
Bionicle in Canada yet :(
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In lugnet.general, Bradley Dale writes:
> In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> > in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> > following categories:
>
> I have all of the Throwbots. Well, all of the building sets, I didn't bother
> getting the extra disks. But I do have one of each character. I
> would also like to own a complete set of RoboRiders and Bionicle, but I can't
> find Frost or Onyx in stores. Right now, I have
> Swamp, Lava, Power and Boss. No
> Bionicle in Canada yet :(
Where do you live Bradley? I know a place where they still have all the
Throwbots and all the RoboRiders in Ontario. Too bad I just saw that post, I
was there today.
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
>
> 1) Town
> 2) Castle
> 3) Pirates
> 4) Trains
> 5) Space
> 6) Technic
>
> Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
> these themes?
I define "complete" as meaning that you have all the sets and all the
service packs released for a particular theme, but not necessarily every
variant of a set or every promo that used pieces from the theme (thus, you
wouldn't have to have both 4560 and 4561 to be 9V train complete, and you
wouldn't have to have all the Kabaya promos to be Adventurers complete).
Under that definition I am 9V train complete, Monorail complete, and Launch
Command complete. However none of those are categories as broad as yours. To
be space complete (across all years, all subthemes, etc) is a daunting task,
for instance.
++Lar
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Brendan Coughlin wrote in message ...
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is • complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
I have only come across people trying to be Technic, Pirate, Castle complete
and once in a while someone claims to be town complete.
Well I am garage door set complete. I wonder how many ways people try to be
"complete" that are not the traditional grouping. Like collecting all the
sets that have the rolling garage doors.
Rose
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I define "complete" as....you must have the sets in a theme that permit
build "all" the sets in a theme (one at a time).
I think I am motor complete (without trains motors), technic complete,
pirates ,western, mindstorms complete.
LEGO complete is the person that must have at least one piece of each piece
created for Lego. (Will Hess dream?)
Gary Istok should be windows complete, lEGO 60´S COMPLETE. And maybe a lot
of more.
Manuel
In lugnet.general, Rose Regner writes:
>
> Brendan Coughlin wrote in message ...
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is • complete
> > in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> > following categories:
>
> I have only come across people trying to be Technic, Pirate, Castle complete
> and once in a while someone claims to be town complete.
>
> Well I am garage door set complete. I wonder how many ways people try to be
> "complete" that are not the traditional grouping. Like collecting all the
> sets that have the rolling garage doors.
>
> Rose
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Manuel Cueto wrote:
> I define "complete" as....you must have the sets in a theme that permit
> build "all" the sets in a theme (one at a time).
>
> I think I am motor complete (without trains motors), technic complete,
> pirates ,western, mindstorms complete.
>
> LEGO complete is the person that must have at least one piece of each piece
> created for Lego. (Will Hess dream?)
>
> Gary Istok should be windows complete, lEGO 60´S COMPLETE. And maybe a lot
> of more.
>
> Manuel
Actually Manuel, I am not Classic window/door complete. In red, white, yellow,
blue, black and gray, there are 113 different classic window/door varieties, I
have 111 of them. There are 2 that I am missing, but I haven't really attempted
to find them. They are both from the train system - the gray 1x2x2 window (only
came in the 7740 Intercity Train) - I have a few in black, but none in gray. And
from another train (I can't remember the one), there were two1x3x2 blue windows
in the locomotive. That is even rarer than the gray one (in the 7740 there were
10 gray windows).
I am not 1960's complete. I never really had the desire to be "complete" in
anything. My desire has always been in obtaining the hard to find parts. I am
"accidentally" close to complete in a few areas, one is 1963-65 Architectural
sets, and the others is the wooden box sets (1957-68). I am also fliptop garage
door complete (1955-70).
Gary Istok
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Gary Istok wrote:
> > Gary Istok should be windows complete, lEGO 60´S COMPLETE. And maybe a lot
> > of more.
> >
> > Manuel
>
> Actually Manuel, I am not Classic window/door complete.
Thinking of window completeness, I have a question about the Minitalia
windows. Should they have LEGO any where one them? I got some windows in
a lot from Germany recently which appear the same as the Minitalia
windows, but don't have LEGO on the studs or anything, additionally, the
mold separation line is very clear across the top of the studs which
surprised me. I'm wondering of someone cloned the Minitalia windows or
if they were manufactured in a different plant than one of TLC's.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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I am BURP Adventure complete:-) <chest pounding>
-John
Brendan Coughlin wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
>
> 1) Town
> 2) Castle
> 3) Pirates
> 4) Trains
> 5) Space
> 6) Technic
>
> Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
> these themes?
>
> Just curious! :-)
>
> Brendan
> Duck360198@aol.com
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Hi,
I'm "Pirate" complete! In fact I'm almost complete times two with the
pirates! I'm only lacking duplicates of a few smaller sets. I even have
the pirate keychain!
As for the subthemes, I'm "forestmen" complete including the dark forest
sets! I think I might be "time cruisers and time twisters" complete! If it
wasn't for the kabaya sets and shell sets, I would probably be ninja,
western, and adventurer complete! It's harder to be complete with the
promotional sets. They aren't as desirable and not always that easy to get.
I'm working at being castle complete 1984 to 1995! I'm not sure I'll make
it but I'll be close. It's funny, but I started out just wanting to be
"Pirate ship" complete! Whaaa happened?? hehhehheh
Tom
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Tom Reed wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm "Pirate" complete! In fact I'm almost complete times two with the
> pirates! I'm only lacking duplicates of a few smaller sets. I even have
> the pirate keychain!
> As for the subthemes, I'm "forestmen" complete including the dark forest
> sets! I think I might be "time cruisers and time twisters" complete! If it
> wasn't for the kabaya sets and shell sets, I would probably be ninja,
> western, and adventurer complete! It's harder to be complete with the
> promotional sets. They aren't as desirable and not always that easy to get.
> I'm working at being castle complete 1984 to 1995! I'm not sure I'll make
> it but I'll be close. It's funny, but I started out just wanting to be
> "Pirate ship" complete! Whaaa happened?? hehhehheh
> Tom
Do you have all 4 Ladybird comics? Do you have both the US and UK
versions of the 6255 comic? Do you have the Pirate T-Shirt?
Frank
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> Tom Reed wrote:
>
> Do you have all 4 Ladybird comics? Do you have both the US and UK
> versions of the 6255 comic? Do you have the Pirate T-Shirt?
>
> Frank
Hi Frank,
The original question asked who had every set in a particular theme. I
don't consider the comics or the T-shirt a set. I do have two of the 6255
comic, but I don't know which versions (probably US). I don't have all the
boxes to each set either. I'm talking about the pieces and the
instructions. Those I do have! I also have all the service packs for all
cannon types, and pirate accessories. So in that sense, I'm complete! As
has been discussed before, there are many levels of being complete. I'm not
into the collecting of all advertisements, aritcles, books, etc. of a
particular theme. I think you end up on a endless search for those type of
items. I also don't think complete means having to have european versions
of an identical set. You could then argue that you must have a SES with the
shooting cannon as well as the US version without. I have enough sets and
parts to do that, but I wasn't trying to fulfill that catagory. After all,
unless you have every set in it's sealed original box, you could also argue
that you don't have the "original" parts to each set. What if you had to
replace a standard brick on one of your sets? Does that make it incomplete?
It doesn't in my opinion, but others could argue the point. What we need is
a listing of types of completeness that one could obtain! Then you could
say you are "level B" complete in a particular theme or something of the
sort. Anyone interested in coming up with such a list? That would probably
need to be discussed in another newsgroup catagory...
Tom
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well,
my bro and i bought just about every CS set until about 1987
so we're prolly almost complete there...
as for my own collection,
i'm trying to buy the one/two/few sets that i like in EACH
theme as opposed to having a complete set of any theme.
I'm also trying to get all of the minifigs from any
given theme.
Most of the smaller kits are just darn boring.
-paul
In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
>
> 1) Town
> 2) Castle
> 3) Pirates
> 4) Trains
> 5) Space
> 6) Technic
>
> Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
> these themes?
>
> Just curious! :-)
>
> Brendan
> Duck360198@aol.com
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
>
> 1) Town
> 2) Castle
> 3) Pirates
> 4) Trains
> 5) Space
> 6) Technic
>
> Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
> these themes?
>
> Just curious! :-)
>
> Brendan
> Duck360198@aol.com
I am complete in the Adventurers Amazon sub-theme, in that I have all the
sets and instructions. I still have the boxes though they have been opened
so that I could build the models. Of course, this is one of the smaller
sub-themes and also one of the more recent, so it wasn't too hard to
acquire. As an added bonus, I also have the t-shirt.
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Gail Olmstead wrote:
>
> In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> > in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> > following categories:
> >
> > 1) Town
> > 2) Castle
> > 3) Pirates
> > 4) Trains
> > 5) Space
> > 6) Technic
> >
> > Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
> > these themes?
> >
> > Just curious! :-)
> >
> > Brendan
> > Duck360198@aol.com
>
> I am complete in the Adventurers Amazon sub-theme, in that I have all the
> sets and instructions. I still have the boxes though they have been opened
> so that I could build the models. Of course, this is one of the smaller
> sub-themes and also one of the more recent, so it wasn't too hard to
> acquire. As an added bonus, I also have the t-shirt.
Do you have all the promo sets? The existence of promo sets is what
keeps me from being complete in things like Adventurers, and especially
Castle sub-themes (where there are a TON of promo sets).
Frank
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In lugnet.general, Brendan Coughlin writes:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This has just crossed my mind right now. I'm curious to see who is complete
> in collecting Lego themes? Meaning, who has every set in any of the
> following categories:
>
> 1) Town
> 2) Castle
> 3) Pirates
> 4) Trains
> 5) Space
> 6) Technic
>
> Those are basically the main themes. Does anyone have every set to any of
> these themes?
>
> Just curious! :-)
I'm about 95% Castle-sets-I-want complete... Does that count? ;)
(meaning I've got one or more of just about every castle set I'm interested in)
James
(who has no tendencies in the completist direction *at all*)
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