Catalog / Shop-at-Home scans

[lordskylark]

Now I know there are a few small archives of catalog scans, like brickset and some others, but it seems that in general they are overall lacking. For example, obvious catalogs like the 1982 and 1984 US catalogs are missing and many others and it seems they have not been updated for quite some time (and the scan quality of many are horrendous). Does anyone know if there is an actively updated catalog scan database?

I am also looking for scans of the Shop-at-Home magazines. I am surprised that I cannot find them online. I'm actually most interested in reading the official product descriptions for the sets - especially the castle sets as I would like to compile some sort of castle history.

[CP5670]

The early 80s set catalogs are pretty hard to come by anywhere. Aside from Peeron, you might also try the collections on Brickfactory and Duke's Nostalgia.

Scans of the big S@H catalogs and club magazines are much harder to come by than the set catalogs. I would be interested in seeing those too. I've only seen one on any site, a US 1989 one on Peeron. I have many of these catalogs but only from 1996 onward.

[lordskylark]

The early 80s set catalogs are pretty hard to come by anywhere. Aside from Peeron, you might also try the collections on Brickfactory and Duke's Nostalgia.

Scans of the big S@H catalogs and club magazines are much harder to come by than the set catalogs. I would be interested in seeing those too. I've only seen one on any site, a US 1989 one on Peeron. I have many of these catalogs but only from 1996 onward.

I didn't realize they were that rare. I saved almost every piece of scrap paper. I will go back through my stuff when I am in the States. But I did save all my catalogs from the 80s and 90s, so I if Shop-At-Home had catalogs in those years, I probably have them all (although I doubt they would be anymore more than "good" condition). I also have every Brick Kicks magazine starting from issue 1. I saved everything and had almost all lego things -- I used to have the Bank and the Mobile Crane from those magazines too, until I sold the parts to them. If they are really needed, I could scan mine, but I did not want to redo the effort. I figured with the amount of lego fans that someone would have undertaken the scanning already. I was surprised to find a lack of scanned catalogs online actually.

Andy