Lego 1990 Dealer Catalog FOUND

[kelceycoe]

I am happy to announce I have found a sold copy of the 1990 Dealer Catalog and am linking the page below - (you will want to save the images before Ebay purges it). This isn't mine and I definitely would never [pay the $425 price wanted. 

The catalog, in some ways, reaffirms what we already know. Here in the USA, the rest of the Pirates sets were released in 1990. There were two quarters that featured Pirates commercials with Jack the Lego Maniac as part of the LEGOLAND theme - First quarter (December 1989-January) and October-December-1990.

Some commercials can be found here:

And because I keep reading about the "Inventor" commercials they started years ago, here's one. You can find the rest on Youtube:

 

However, what really made me bawling my eyes out was the actual 20 foot store display sample showing EXACTLY WHERE THE PIRATE SETS WERE SET ON THE SHELVES. I always remembered Black Seas being on the bottom because I always sat down on the store floor and stared at the inlay of the set (even though I already had the set lol). Plus we get some interesting facts about the new and popular Christmas sets from that era, the then-new Build-A-Bunny, and we learn about Impulse sets, Trial Size Promotion Sets. 

No where in this catalog does it suggest the release date for ANY Legoland set (except the trial size/impulse versions) which means we still don't have hard evidence dating the 1990 Pirate sets, we're only left to assume our memories of buying Pirates sets in early 1990 and thus getting black handled cannons before the later releases that year came with the non-firing single piece cannon (which dominated the USA Pirate and Western market over the next decade).

 

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