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Re: Straight LEGO Country Flags of 70's and 80's
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 5 Feb 2007 20:26:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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By the way the #15xx and #16xx sets were promotional sets for companies.
Does anyone know what the #1589 was a promotional set for? Or was this just
(as someone had mentioned in the Lugnet notes) just the European equivalent
to the USA #6390 Main Street set that was only sold in UK and the
Netherlands?
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Hello Gerhard,
Which one of the two sets with number 1589
are you refering to? :-)
I guess your question concerns the set with LUGNET reference number
1589_1, Town Square. It is just as the
information in the LUGNET database says (see “Notes:” in lower right corner): A
promotial for the brandname Weetabix, which is a wheat-based breakfast cereal in
the form of relatively large biscuits.
As you might know, the firm Weetabix Limited has patronised quite a few
promotional LEGO sets, see:
here
and here
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) Manfred, My mistake, I meant to say "1592", and instead said "1589" (the 1978 Weetabix UK set). So let me ask again (correctly), were there specific companies that promoted the British (1980) and Dutch (1983) #1592 set? Thanks, Gary Istok (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks Manfred! Unfortunately the LEGO CD Chapter 12 - Promotional Sets only went to 1982. This set is a 1983 set in the Netherlands, but now that I look at my notes, it was a 1980 set in Britain, and should have been included. By the way the (...) (17 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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