| | | | | I have recently come into possesion of a set of Kiddicraft self-locking building
bricks. It is complete and the box is intact, though the cardboard is in rough
shape. Not surprising really, considering that this set predates the first Lego
brick by two years. You heard right my friends, this is the original British
toy that "inspired" Ole Kirk Kristiansen to come out with the automatic binding
brick two years later. If there are any potential buyers out there of such an
interesting piece of Lego history, I would love to know. I will post pics soon.
Nathan
| | | | | | | | | | | | | On 24/08/06, Nathan Proudlove <nathanberry@load.com> wrote:
> I have recently come into possesion of a set of Kiddicraft self-locking building
> bricks. It is complete and the box is intact, though the cardboard is in rough
> shape. Not surprising really, considering that this set predates the first Lego
> brick by two years. You heard right my friends, this is the original British
> toy that "inspired" Ole Kirk Kristiansen to come out with the automatic binding
> brick two years later. If there are any potential buyers out there of such an
> interesting piece of Lego history, I would love to know. I will post pics soon.
>
> Nathan
For those who are interested, Pics of the toy can be seen here:
http://www.personal.u-net.com/~lilleker/con-lego.htm
There is also a history of the Lego bricks themselves there.
Danny
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Yes, as we can see Kiddicraft was the pre-cursor to the Lego brick.
Back in 1949-50 they had only 5 colors of Lego bricks, red, white, yellow, light
green, and what can best be described as "peacock blue". By 1950 TLG was
releasing to their Danish retailers a form of "Pick-A-Brick" at their retail
outlets, and the color range expanded to an additional 5 colors of bricks...
include light blue, blue, dark green, gray and clear. So by 1951 there were
about 10 Lego colors (and still only 2 brick sizes).
The window/door colors available in the early 1950's were red, white, yellow,
light blue, dark blue and light green.
Gary Istok
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello!
I would definately be interested in buying the set, as I am a very passionated
collector of these old things:-)
Please contact me if you are interested in selling it to me:-)
Thanks!
Best regards
Henrik Thrane
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello!
I would definately be interested in buying the Kiddicraft set, as I am a very
passionated
collector of these old things:-)
Please contact me if you are interested in selling it to me:-)
Thanks!
Best regards
Henrik Thrane
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