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So I'm just puttering (now that the built parts of the layout are mostly rebuilt after Hurricane Josh), getting set up for NovaLUG's Feb 1-3 show... When I stumbled across this bag of stuff-- (URL) The discerning eye can see parts n pieces for (...) (12 years ago, 17-Jan-13, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
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(...) Wrong 2nd link... (URL) (12 years ago, 17-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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And then there are these early LEGO retailer wooden boxes (1950-58) that were used as Pick-A-Brick boxes in Denmark and Norway only.... (URL) are dicussed here (towards the bottom) in greater detail... (URL) Chapter 43 - Individual LEGO Parts Sales (...) (12 years ago, 17-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LOTS of news for obb and WHaCKoLuG
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(...) Yea! busy first part of 2013! Yea! More Swiss Chalet! (but less cute waitresses :( ) Yea! belated x-mas party!! Yea! Family Day Display (obb CS Layout will make an appearance!) and absolute Yea!! St Jacobs display!!! Love this display--get to (...) (12 years ago, 16-Jan-13, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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WHaCKoLuG News... 1. No WHaCKoLuG dinner this Sunday. 2. All new WHaCKoLuG dinners are changing location to the Swiss Chalet on Stone Road, in Guelph, starting the third Sunday of Feb. 3. "Minifig March Break Madness" for kids at St. Jacobs obb (...) (12 years ago, 15-Jan-13, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
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(...) Dave, I'm familiar with that box! ;-) Starting around 1971 TLG started individual parts sales via the retailers (using unsold leftover wooden boxes) on some countries, and via Mail Order in others. Italy and Germany were 2 countries that sold (...) (12 years ago, 15-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: <snip> (...) As usual, your extensive knowledge of all things LEGO is overwhelming! I was very fortunate many years ago to acquire a LEGO wooden box on eBay from Italy--it's a service pack of parts from (...) (12 years ago, 15-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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It started in 1957... when Axel Thomsen, a friend of Godtfred Kirk Christiansen who owned a doll house making factory in Lerum Sweden started making wooden box sets for LEGO sales in Sweden and Germany, the 2 countries that he was the LEGO Director (...) (12 years ago, 15-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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(...) SNIP (...) That's a pity... among the first LEGO sets sold in Canada in 1962 was a Sears exclusive... the 706 Tube Set... (URL) many years LEGO of Canada sold regular and exclusive sets to Sears (and even Eaton's). Now after 50 years, it's (...) (12 years ago, 13-Jan-13, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Well got a quick reply from the Billund Archives folks today. They have never seen that set either... and believe it is of Swedish origins (circa 1959), and as I mentioned, likely an institutional school set. Gary (12 years ago, 12-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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Hmmm... the previous post has a broken link... this is it.... (URL) is where the wooden box design originated from.... the back side image of 1957-60 spare parts packs. Gary Istok (12 years ago, 10-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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Well here's another unknown LEGO set (there's still plenty out there!).... It was purchased by a German acquaintance at a German auction, and is unlike any wooden box set I've seen before... very unusual. It has 24 compartments... which is the (...) (12 years ago, 10-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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Sears is getting rid of their toy department, Zellers is pretty much gone. No LEGO in the Walmart flyer this week, but I did see some sets marked down when I was over today looking for series 9 (no sign of them, but I did get a Friends squirrel). (...) (12 years ago, 10-Jan-13, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Well I found out some very interesting information on this set from the investigations of my Billund Archives contacts today. It seems that in Japan LEGO was always mainly a large city department store item only found in big cities... not (...) (12 years ago, 9-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the info Dave! By the way, I was off by 1 year with Samsonite of Canada... it was 1986 that LEGO reverted back to TLG. Here's the story behind Samsonite of Canada returning the LEGO license to TLG. It was an entirely different story (...) (12 years ago, 9-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Separate cheques??? Isnt the meals usually covered under the 'Chris-is-awesomely-...-everyone' foundation??? Huh. Dave K (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I got to tour the Stratford plant in '84 or '85. The VP of sales, Jack e. Chessman, got a copy of my LEGO Wars movie and invited me over for a tour of the plant. Utterly fantastic! The plant, even though the licence was being revoked, was (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | The Termination of LEGO production in the USA in 1973...
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1973 - the year LEGO Terminated the Samsonite USA LEGO License... For those folks who like looking at old LEGO catalogs... there's a big gap in the the American LEGO catalog lists... more like a 2 year gap. In 1970 TLG started legal action to revoke (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The 1980 Japanese catalog showing the basic sets produced that year shows the very unusual (and very rare) 1902 set (from my DVD/download chapter on LEGO catalogs)... (URL) Istok (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | rtlToronto Monthly meet-up
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For the start of 2013, I propose we all meet at our favorite Swiss Chalet in Etobicoke, and use up those free appetizers coupons we all got at the last dinner. Friday Jan 11 - 7:00pm Swiss Chalet Dundas St Etobicoke ON. Separate Checks as always. I (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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