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| (...) The best person to ask, of course, would be Gary Istok, but some things I've noticed as differences: - older bricks are made from Cellulose Acetate (sp?), newer ones are ABS - the injection point for a lego brick used to be on the side (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New stock in - Look before I auction it.
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| (...) Todd, we seem to have returned to this problem again. We still don't have clear rules which indicate that it is wrong to list "these items available for straight sale for 2-3 weeks before I auction them". It seems to me that this is a (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.terms)
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| Hi The plate is from Architectural Sets. I quote Gary Istok in an old post (I didn´t found the number). Gary Istoq wrote..... "Interestingly enough, the only other large CA gray plate that I am aware of was (continental Europe only) from those (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Most probably a car showcase for the HO scale cars that Lego produced in 50's and 60's. Actually I could be wrong, since the ones that I saw before were 4 studs wide. Tore Ericson and Gary Istok can give more insight I think. Selçuk (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Gary Istok is our expert and can be definitive but I'd give long odds. You've named off about 10 of the 5 key signs of CA. :-) One dead giveaway to ME is the difference in "feel", which is "slippery and sticky at the same time" and the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What set has black roof peak/gable?
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| (...) If I'm understanding the piece you're refering to here ((URL) (I believe Gary Istok calls them "Gable Connectors"), you should only need one of these pieces at the top of the 'T' in the roof, not three. You can use the regualr double slope (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| To All, (...) Well, I do know Gary Istok (A really cool guy, BTW! : ) ) is perhaps still second, I think he has over 500,000 parts. There is someone else, Conan, I think his name is, he is not online or anything, but I heard he has over 2,000,000 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
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| Amy Hughes wrote in message ... (...) my (...) category Sounds good to me. Better make sure we have that category :-) (...) I think we could have different scales without too much trouble, and making it minifig-only excludes people like Gary Istok (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Proposal: a TOWN building contest!
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| (...) Fabuland? thank you... Bendy arm big people too? microscale? (...) Would this be one vote per catergory? How about some across the board awards ? best use of color most unexpected/creative/novel use of an element overall favorite best use of (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.town)
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| (...) As a followup I did some more digging, and it appears that this set was likely for the 35th anniversary for the WDR TV station of Cologne Germany. The special edition with very rare WDR panels was for the 1 Jan. 1991 35th Anniversary of the (...) (10 years ago, 27-Feb-15, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO in Canada (From Samsonite to TLG) 1962-94.
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| Hi neighbors to the north (well for me that would be neighbors to the east, since I live just 10 miles from the Canadian border north of Detroit)... I have been working on putting together an entire set history and LEGO development history of LEGO (...) (10 years ago, 27-Feb-15, to lugnet.org.ca)
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| | Re: LEGO in Canada (From Samsonite to TLG) 1962-94.
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| Canadian LEGO sets from 1962 until circa 1990 would be worth more than comparable sets sold in other markets if they were more well known. Here's an example.... the London Bus Set... known as 760 London Bus in the USA, and 384 London Bus in Canada (...) (10 years ago, 1-Mar-15, to lugnet.org.ca)
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| (...) Hi, Jimmy! It's good to see you posting again. Have you been lurking on LUGNET long, or just got here? BTW guys: if you aren't familiar with the names Jimmy Park or Sonya Lee, they are old-timers from RTL (and maybe before?). Sonya Lee is to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) Just because a part is attainable from ebay or brickbay or any other source does not make it "easily available". There are many "rare" and desirable parts out there, for a price of course. Just because I have 3 Space Cruisers or Istok has (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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