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| Jason Proksch wrote: <major snippage> (...) Did someone say "Junior Constructor"? Set 717..... from 1961-64. Is that the one you are talking about Jason (by the way, glad you decided to "de-lurk"). If so, are you talking about the earlier gabled (...) (24 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> wrote in message news:37DFC02C.554DC4...ate.edu... (...) I've started doing something like that. I noticed there was a slight gap between the folds of cardboard at one end. I've found I can reversibly bend the box a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi Manuel, First a few things about the Samsonite sets. Many of the European sets from the 1950's and 1960's had a parts list ("beipackzettel" in German). I have never seen one of these in any Samsonite set. A question for you on your 725 (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hi John, I don't think it was LEGO that made those. LEGO didn't start making bricks until 1949 when they made the Automatic Binding Bricks, the plastic prototypes to modern LEGO. From 1932 (first year Ole Kirk Christiansen made toys with (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Jason, OK, yes the 4 pictures on the inside lid of the box are the only building instructions that were included in this set. I first got it as a kid, and within 6 months my mother threw away the box (I still have the original contents mixed (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Geeeeeeee, I love questions about sets 725 an 717......... :-) So my reply is mixed in below..... (...) That is nothing to be sad about. If you had the earlier version, you would have the same version as was found throughout Europe in their 810 Town (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| I love the Wild Wild West theme idea. I used to watch the show on TV all the time (before and after it went to reruns). My favorite LEGO set is #396 - the Thatcher Perkins Locomotive, an 1863 vintage western style train locomotive. (I never met a (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I remember when I was 9-12 years old (1962-65) back in the days when there were 138 different parts packs available, all of them sold in Toy Stores. I used to walk the 10 blocks to "Earl's Bike Shop" in Detroit. They had all the Samsonite (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) Hi Paul, I have not yet built a Thatcher Perkins in other colors, but I was mulling it over. I have built a coal tender and old style passenger car in the 1860's style to the Thatcher Perkins scale (using small spoked wheels), but haven't yet (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| Folks, I was looking USA EBAY for LEGO when I happened to stumble onto this little vintage box of LEGO. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen on the internet..... I think this guy is a comedian. It's not funny until you get beyond the LEGO set (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Whew!!!! I'm glad it wasn't me that brought it down. I think my post was the last one that posted before the downtime. I once stopped rush hour traffic dead in it's tracks in the city center of Kulmbach Germany when my sweaty parking ticket (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.general)
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