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| (...) Mike, I keep track of rare parts. The hat you are talking about is not a rare part, but rather exists in a rare color. Black is harder to find, but the truely rare color is yellow. The hard hat only appeared in Yellow in 2 sets. Another rare (...) (21 years ago, 21-Dec-03, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Has anyone seen Gary Istok?
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| (...) Welcome back, Gary! Good to see an "Old School" name resurface! I look forward to more fascinating, historical information from you about our favorite plastic pastime:-) JOHN (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Has anyone seen Gary Istok?
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| (...) It's great to see you back!!! It always worries me when people that seemed like such a big part of the community seem to drop off the face of the net. When I forst saw this post (URL) its pictures of the town plan and other old Lego sets, I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Has anyone seen Gary Istok?
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| (...) This is unexpected and good news. I always enjoyed your posts. Welcome back! PS: You don't need those boxes anyway. ;-) (URL) [ j o n ] (URL) zemi.net> (URL) moonbase> (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Has anyone seen Gary Istok?
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| (...) Gary, Welcome back. You were missed. Sad to here of such events. Hopefully, your return marks a change of fortunes. Know that you have friends here. I look forward to what you have to share. You were an inspiration to me when I first began (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Has anyone seen Gary Istok?
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| Gary Istok wrote in message ... (...) Gary, it's good to see you back! I look forward to adding more History of Lego links to the Town group page :-) Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Guild (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part....
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| (...) The most glaring one that I'm aware of is on page 15 where it states that plates (a.k.a. 1/3 elements) first appeared in 1962. Of course there were several sizes of plates available from the mid-1950's on. This set from circa 1958 had a series (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | 4886: First building since the minifig to have 4 walls?
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| Getting 4886 today got me thinking... is this the first LEGO building since the introduction of the minifig to have 4 walls? Nothing jumps out at me while browing Town sets at Brickset; they all have the back wall open for the 'hand of God' to place (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New LEGO displays at TRU
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| (...) Yes, I've noticed these kind of "aquarium cases" as well.. Very attractive; I like how they've incorporated the LEGO studs into the design. I'm thinking of reproducing one of them in *cough* wood. It would be a neat way to display built (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Parts I'd like to see
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| (...) Hi, I remembered it was one of the postings from the most famous CD-publishing-announcer, Gary I. ;-) In which decade his CD should be published? (That's what I not remember...) So I did a search for "Istok" and found (URL) normaly I also have (...) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.parts)
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| | Re: Memories..la...di...da
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| (...) That was my first space set too. I bought three so I could build, umm...(URL) castles.> (now who's more eviller.) My first set that I recall was (URL) the Fire Station> but I'm sure I had smaller sets before that. The first Lego in our house (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: the top 15 colors
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| (...) So... if I am interpreting the above numbers correctly... MdStone now has been seen in 37% of the variety of parts that Gray has ever been known to have been produced in (but not neccessarily the same base group tho). Not bad for ~1.3 years (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Why are slope bricks textured?
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| Its one of the most trivial things, but its always bothered me. Why have that texture on the slope end? What purpose does it serve? From the small selection of un-textured slopes we have, one can only infer that these would be less trouble to (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.parts)
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