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| (...) Richard, you can find some of what I've written on the lugnet.general page near the bottom under "Links & Resources" - and click on "Gary Istok's History of LEGO Series". This is a rather unstructured series of articles that I've written. (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) <snip> Tom, that would be like me saying "blue regular slope outside corners aren't that hard to come by, I must have 150." :-) It all depends on what sets you bought in quantity in the past! Gary Istok (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Tough to find pieces
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| (...) I can't seem to locate eithe rright now, but note that either the box or the instructions for the Emperor's Stronghold (Ninja set) showed a firing cannon, even in the US release. (I think it was the instructions.) The US catalog picture (at (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Manuel, The windows you are talking about came out around 1955 or 1956 (which is the date of the catalog you have described). The catalog probably also probably has the old LEGO Gnome (small man in red overalls and white shirt) shown in it. This (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yes those are hard to come by. And Mike is right, those 1x1 blue tiles are very scarce. I didn't think I had any until I found 12 in an old box. That got me to thinking about what pieces are rare. Yes there are rare slopes and arches such as (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Maiden's cart - Castle set 6023
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| (...) I know the feeling..... when I got those 35 London Bus sets back in the 1980's, I opened every single set! (Ouch!!!) I ripped off the shrink wrap of every single one of them, and sorted all the pieces (there were 840 classic windows!) In (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| Manuel is correct. It is the Architectural Series Parts pack box (#518, 519, 520, 521). Originally, these were made in red/white/blue/black...ray/clear, but NOT yellow (that color was not a part of the Architectural sets). I have about 40 of these (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| The ones that I got were the 760 (US version). Even though they were 1975-76 sets, I got them in 1985 at about 6 different toy clearance stores in the metro Detroit area (about 5-7 per store). The reason that I scoured all their stores in the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| Maneul, Please check the Architectural boxes again. You might have 4 varieties, but I could swear that there are only 3. I will go home tonight and check again. After today I won't be able to post again here until Monday. As for your parts pack box. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Why I HATE Lego
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| (...) 725 sets, but better than that.... 10,000 LEGO windows. Gary Istok "I never met a Lego window I didn't like." (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) There is a Town set, a house with a sloping yellow roof (I can't remember the number). This might be a European only set, but I cannot verify that either. That is the only set I can remember that even had yellow apex bricks, although a pirate (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Rose, Funny you should mention that tree in the Swiss Villa. A few months ago, I saw in EBAY a complete Swiss Villa that had that same tree pine tree you described. I don't know why, but it appears that TLC changed tree styles at this time (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| No Duq, there are other neurotics out there. My LEGO Cathedral (still unfinished) has thousands of red 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6 and 1x8 bricks. Most of them were from my old cathedral which I built in 1986, but destroyed in 1996 to build the new one. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I have about 200 of the old style tiles (with no lip on the bottom) from a German collector (all white). And I am setting them aside for that "invisible" look (that Steve just described) in one of my new buildings. Gary Istok (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The only think I hate about KKK is that he got as much LEGO as he wanted for childhood building :-) and I didn't! Here he is in the middle, playing as child with the Town Plan system: (URL) Istok (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Where do you keep your Lego?
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| Wow Anne, you do have some tight quarters for you, your husband and your LEGO. And here I thought I was running out of room for my LEGO. I'll never complain again..... by the way my LEGO room is (and I am embarrassed to say) 40ft x 20ft (12m x 6m), (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| Dear LEGO Direct, Previously I made a request for some new LEGO Architectural elements that can be used by the Town and Train Systems (or any other systems that can find it useful). After viewing some of the nice pieces used in the Belville System, (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct) !
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| Okay, here's the scoop... The La Crosse Train Show is March 18th and 19th. The GMLTC will arrive Friday afternoon (17th) to set up and will stay in a hotel attached to the Convention Center Friday and Saturday nights. We could fest on Friday night (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.org.us.gmlug)
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| | 1960's Golden Years of Parts Packs
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| Ya know how I'm always harping about how nice the 1960's assortment of parts packs were (1963 there were 138 different in USA). Well there is someone on EBAY (from Italy) selling quite an assortment of these, and I just wanted to show you folks the (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Straight LEGO Country Flags of 70's and 80's
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| (...) Hello Gerhard, Which one of the (URL) two sets with number 1589> are you refering to? :-) I guess your question concerns the set with LUGNET reference number (URL) 1589_1>, Town Square. It is just as the information in the LUGNET database says (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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