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Well the first LEGO plastic produced for Automatic Binding Bricks (LEGO bricks from 1949-53) by TLG Billund Denmark were made of Cellulose Acetate. And anyone who has seen very old LEGO plastic can tell how much it warps. Just doing some research (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | sale Aug 23-29
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No LEGO in either the Walmart or Target flyers this week. ---...--- TRU flyer good from Friday Aug 23 through Thursday Aug 29. 15% off 3183 Stephanie's Cool Convertible. $16.97 (first time I've seen a Friends set on sale) 20% off select LEGO city, (...) (11 years ago, 23-Aug-13, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | LEGO Wooden Box Sets sold to Beauty Parlors/Barber Shops
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A discussion with a LEGO Archive employee last year about wooden box sets, came up with a previously unknown use for LEGO sets... the fact that TLG was marketing the wooden box sets in the early years of their production to Beauty Parlors and to (...) (11 years ago, 18-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | How LEGO Service Packs got started...
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Service packs and individual parts sales are relatively new (only last 20 or so years) to the USA and Canada. But in Europe individual parts sales started in 1950 in Denmark, and Service Packs started as individual sales either from mail-order, or (...) (11 years ago, 15-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Red Coats Beach Defense
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The British soldiers shore up their formidable beach defenses ready to repel any invaders. The artillery crew man the cannons from their firing positions as more soldiers beef up the shore line. (URL) Clickthe pic for more details... AC (11 years ago, 14-Aug-13, to lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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