Lego Catalogue Pdf

[Louella Kammann]

Theweb view is kinda slow because the scans are really large, but I've bundled each one into its own much smaller PDF. The first wave had slightly wonkier PDFs but I've got a process nailed down for making them now, so if anyone wants me to go back and re-upload smaller PDFs I guess I can do that. The older ones have been added to brickset (so you may have already seen them) but the latest batch hasn't been yet as far as I know.

Back in the day I spent many hours reading through the lego catalog. I think things like this should be preserved and shared. I also had older catalogs when I was a kid that wore out and fell apart; I was curious about what year I'd seen the Unitron Monorail, for example. Anyway, once I got started I got very well carried away, and I figured I might as well finish what I started. My hope is that if if anyone is as nostalgic as I am for this sort of thing, they enjoy it as much as I did.

It's a really interesting way to take in the story of Lego's 20th century themes, how they evolved into a more narrative and tie-in based setup in the late 90s, and licensed themes/Bionicle and Juniorization in the early 00s. Beyond the nostalgia, it's interesting to see the marketing material evolve over time, especially the most cutting-edge stuff which culminates in Bionicle's CGI world. Also what I assume is the better and better technology enabling editors to reuse more and more entire pages (which does make the late 90s/early 00s catalogs get pretty samey.)

1999 Summer: Rock Raiders featured in a transition period between being all-in on house themes and all in on Star Wars. Oh and it has the last appearance of a bunch of really cool sets: -Shop-At-Home-Summer-1999-Rock-Raiders-Cover/mode/2up

Fixed it for you! This is really cool. Can go back and see what was missed during our 'dark ages'. These are great scans and that site operates very nicely for this. Most excellent work! What a great 3rd post, post more.

Fantastic! There are a number of Lego-oriented sites out there that have catalog scans, but I'm not sure why I never thought to put some into the Archive.org Collections format. I wonder how many more are in there that should be consolidated? I'm going to check these out and enjoy the nostalgia, but then maybe some of us should make an effort to fill in the gaps both from our own collections as well as some of the other resources out there...

Thank you for doing this, EamonnMR! You are not the only one who spent many hours reading Lego catalogs as a kid :) For a lot of kids, the pictures of the Lego products they saw in catalogs sparked as many imaginative fantasies as the sets they actually owned. Lego catalogs had a big impact on a lot of people and are definitely worth preserving. Modern Lego catalogs that I have seen don't have the little blurbs that explain the sets, so I wonder whether today's kids are as interested in them.

Also, I love that Exploriens artwork and photography from 1996.

Wow this is so nostalgic! I've been looking at old commercials too. There is one I've been looking for but can't find. It was an explorien/spyrius one that involved the explorien starship crashing into the big spyrius robot

Yeah the photography is amazing. The Exploriens art is particularly dramatic but I also love the Trains one (Metroliner and later) with the blue mountain and the tunnel. I've been sort hoping that some day someone who did this art will give an interview, it'd be really interesting to know what was going on. The green terrain for the UFOs was nuts. Christian Faber did a good writeup of how he designed the Aquazone world, but I haven't seen anything similar for space besides an in depth discussion of possible influences.

In 1983 LEGO released a printed catalogue which features what I believe to be the very best Trains offering in LEGO history. All the great releases prior to 1983 culminated with a LEGO Trains System that was the dream of every fan. The 1983 catalogue featured here shows, in one short printed pamphlet, all the incredible things you could do with the 4.5 and 12 volt systems.

The flagship sets that were the shining jewels in the LEGO Trains System culminating in 1983 were the Push Along Train 7710 which could be converted to battery operation very easily, and the Electron Inter-City train set 7740.

Whilst LEGO had always featured Trains amongst their themes, it was not until 1980 that the 12v system included wired remote control, switches and lights. With the iconic Electric Inter-city Train Set (7740), as well as other train release, a LEGO city builder could create an entire rail network powered by 12v, and controlled from one vantage point.

In order to make the LEGO Train System more realistic, LEGO also released a great range of sets to complement the system. Obviously the entire City/Town System could be combined with the Trains System to create an entire metropolis, however dedicated sets were created to work with the railway lines and tracks like the Train Station 7824. LEGO also provided one of their ideas books 7777 which featured many more build ideas including overpasses and bridges, track layout designs, and panoramas.

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