href="http://xray3.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/homepage.html">The Construction Toy Home Page</a>.<dd>Joseph Lauher has put together a substantial resource here, notonly about LEGO&#174; but about other toys as well.This page has in-depth features onTechnic, Model Team, and LEGO&#174; trains, as well as images ofbrochures and catalogs both from the Samsonite era in the US(1963-1973) and more recent times, and the ``Model of the Month.''This page also featured a<!WA52><!WA52><!WA52><!WA52><a href="http://sbchm1.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/entries.html">Summer Building Contest</a> in 1995.This page has other unique features, such as an explanation of``<!WA53><!WA53><!WA53><!WA53><a href="http://sbchm1.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/molecular.html">molecular LEGO&#174; bricks</a>,'' molecules that self-assemble into a ``wall.''<dt><!WA54><!WA54><!WA54><!WA54><a name="yahoo" href="http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Toys/LEGOS/">Yahoo's Recreation:Toys:LEGOS links</a>.<dd>Yahoo has collected many LEGO-related links under this heading,though to a large extent these duplicate links you would find here or onMichael Dorneich's<!WA55><!WA55><!WA55><!WA55><a href="http://tortie.me.uiuc.edu/~dorneich/lego/Elego.html">Everything LEGO</a> page.<dt><!WA56><!WA56><!WA56><!WA56><a name="rtm" href="http://utmdacc.mda.uth.tmc.edu:5014/eric/rtm/rtm.html">The Raving Toy Maniac Page</a>.<dd>This site, maintained by Eric G. Myers, offers all sorts of Internet and Webresources for toy enthusiasts.These include a very good collection of LEGO-related links on<!WA57><!WA57><!WA57><!WA57><a href="http://utmdacc.mda.uth.tmc.edu:5014/eric/rtm/lego.html">The Internet Toy Off-White Pages LEGO&#174; Page</a>(but again, see <!WA58><!WA58><!WA58><!WA58><a href="http://tortie.me.uiuc.edu/~dorneich/lego/Elego.html">Michael Dorneich's list</a>).</dl></p><p>A number of the pages that are currently in the<!WA59><!WA59><!WA59><!WA59><a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/lego/webarama.html">list of LEGOmaniacs on the Web</a>really should be in the above list due to the depth and breadthof their content.  My apologies to everyone whose excellent effortsI have failed to properly acknowledge here.</p><h3><a name="b2">Academic Web Sites</a></h3><p>There are so many Web sites at schools of all sorts(from fourth grade up through graduate school)that I've had to list them on a<!WA60><!WA60><!WA60><!WA60><a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/lego/academia.html">separate page</a>.Happy hunting!</p><h3><a name="b3">Usenet News</a></h3><p>The Usenet news group for LEGO&#174; topics is <!WA61><!WA61><!WA61><!WA61><a name="news" href="news:rec.toys.lego">rec.toys.lego</a>.A hypertext version of the<!WA62><!WA62><!WA62><!WA62><a href="http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tom/legofaq.html">rec.toys.lego FAQ</a>(Frequently Asked Questions list)is maintained by Tom Pfeifer (<!WA63><!WA63><!WA63><!WA63><a href="mailto:pfeifer@fokus.gmd.de">e-mail: pfeifer@fokus.gmd.de</a>)in Germany.A <!WA64><!WA64><!WA64><!WA64><a href="ftp://earthsea.stanford.edu/pub/lego/faq/lego-faq">plain-text version</a> (not necessarily up-to-date)is in the<!WA65><!WA65><!WA65><!WA65><a href="ftp://earthsea.stanford.edu/pub/lego">LEGO&#174; FTP archive</a>(also described <!WA66><!WA66><!WA66><!WA66><a href="#earthsea">above</a>).</p><p>In early 1995 a number of subscribers to rec.toys.lego participatedin a ``roll call'' by each posting his or her response to a survey.Andy Watkins and I archived as many of these responses as we could,and I continue to archive responses to the occasional revivals ofthe survey.  These archives are combined in an on-linesummary, now available via a convenient<!WA67><!WA67><!WA67><!WA67><a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/lego/roll-call/toc.html">table of contents</a>.</p><p>The NIC keeps a page of<!WA68><!WA68><!WA68><!WA68><a name="rtlstats"href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-i/groups-html/rec.toys.lego.html">statistics on the rec.toys.lego newsgroup</a>which may be interesting to view; see their guesses abouthow many of us read the newsgroup and how many hundreds if notthousands of dollars each of our postings costs the Net.</p><h3><a name="b4">Trading Opportunities</a></h3><p>There are frequent sales and auctions of LEGO&#174; on the rec.toys.legonewsgroup.  Some of these are for real ``collectors' items,'' butmany break up brand-new sets to redistribute the pieces in different assortments;and in my opinion, this is a verygood thing in light of LEGO's current organization of their sets.</p><p>In 1995, Todd Lehman ran one of these auctions, nicknamedAucZILLA, literally for months.  This auction was so big,it even has its own <!WA69><!WA69><!WA69><!WA69><a href="http://www.winternet.com/~lehman/auczilla.html">home page</a>on the Web, worth visiting (as long as it stays on line) if you wantto see what kind of prices to expect for various pieces in Internetauctions.Todd has written an excellent<!WA70><!WA70><!WA70><!WA70><a href="http://www.winternet.com/~lehman/lego/rtlm-faq.html">rec.toys.lego Auction & Shipping FAQ</a>with helpful information on buying and selling LEGO&#174; over the Internet.</p><p><a name="jmanx">Jason Mantor</a>(see his <!WA71><!WA71><!WA71><!WA71><a href="http://www.albany.net/~mantoj/index.html">home page</a>)has put his enterprise,<!WA72><!WA72><!WA72><!WA72><a href="http://www.rtl-bricks.com/">RTL Bricks</a>,on the Web.You can select a specific part from the RTL Bricks catalog ina specific color and order it in bulk.There is also a marketplace for individuals to post ads to buy or sell LEGO&#174;of whatever kind they desire.The site has some raytracings of original designs and promisesother services in the future.</p><p><!WA73><!WA73><!WA73><!WA73><a href="http://www.es.co.nz/~lego/">Global Wholesale Toys</a>has a page offering on-line purchase of LEGO&#174; setsat about a 20% discount from ``normal'' prices.Their prices still seem quite high compared to <!WA74><!WA74><!WA74><!WA74><a href="http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tom/legofaq.html#asah">U.S. Shop-at-Home</a>, butperhaps that merely indicates that ``normal'' prices inNew Zealand are much higher than in the United States.</p><h3><a name="b5">Personal WWW Pages</a></h3><p>Quite a large number of people have put their own LEGO&#174; lore on theWeb, or have volunteered to identify their regular home pages as thoseof LEGOmaniacs.I've tried to make as complete a list of these pages as I can.There are some real gems on these pages, too many for me to list above, so I highly recommend you peruse the<!WA75><!WA75><!WA75><!WA75><a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/lego/webarama.html">(nearly) complete list of LEGOmaniacs' Web pages</a>.</p><h3><a name="b6">Miscellaneous Good Stuff</a></h3><p><!WA76><!WA76><!WA76><!WA76><a name="bayer" href="http://www.bayer.com/english/0000home.htm">The Bayer Group</a>---who, as it turns out, supply ABS plasticto the LEGO Group---have a page featuring<!WA77><!WA77><!WA77><!WA77><a href="http://www.legocar.suites.com/">the life-sized LEGO&#174; Super Car</a>and explaining the LEGO-Bayer connection.In-line images are linked to mind-boggling close-up shots of variousparts of the car.</p><p><!WA78><!WA78><!WA78><!WA78><a name="gryphon" href="http://www.gryphonsw.com/">Gryphon Software Corporation</a>is advertising a product called Gryphon Bricks,a three-dimensional drawing program for models built ofLEGO-compatible bricks and other elements.</p><h2><!WA79><!WA79><!WA79><!WA79><img align=middle src="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/lego/thumb/brick1.gif" alt=""><a name="cit">Citations Received</a></h2><p><!WA80><!WA80><!WA80><!WA80><a href=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6753/><!WA81><!WA81><!WA81><!WA81><imgalign=middlesrc=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6753/thumbnail.gif alt="`Thumbs up!'" border=0></a>I've recently been awarded a<!WA82><!WA82><!WA82><!WA82><a href=http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6753/>Positive Boot&eacute;</a>. Thanks, guys!</p><p>And there's a<!WA83><!WA83><!WA83><!WA83><a href="http://webreview.com/oct13/reviews/cafe/david.html">review of this Web page</a> in<!WA84><!WA84><!WA84><!WA84><a href="http://webreview.com/oct13/toc/index.html">the October 13-26, 1995 issue</a> of<!WA85><!WA85><!WA85><!WA85><a href="http://webreview.com/">Web Review</a>.</p><p><hr>Last updated Mon Nov 25 10:23:41 EST 1996.</p><p><!WA86><!WA86><!WA86><!WA86><a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/karr/karr.html">David A. Karr</a> /<!WA87><!WA87><!WA87><!WA87><a href="mailto:karr@cs.cornell.edu">karr@cs.cornell.edu</a></p></body></html>