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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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| (...) 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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| 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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| Gary Istok wrote: > > Besides what Chris already said, there is one major reason the Toronto folks get > along so well..... they meet in person. They know each other and hang out > together. When people actually meet other people something magical (...) (20 years ago, 23-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| Hey all, After another major re-sort of my collection, I decided to separate all the 1x2 grille tiles without the fingernail groove out of my big bag of the grooved kind since it's kinda hard to tell 'em apart while digging. I was surprised to find (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Wikipedia is a generic encyclopedia. Terms like "SNOT" or "BURP" might be out of place there, as they are too specific. (...) Why not? > Or just information on (...) Well, it could be an organized form of the the information key postings on (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| Posted for Larry P. Please forgive spelling mistakes... I'll be posting an .MP3 file of the notes sometime later.... ---...--- Keynote presentation notes 13 August 2005 Joergen Vig Knudstrup focus of talk is where LEGO is going. LEGO is going (...) (19 years ago, 13-Aug-05, to lugnet.events) !!
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| The group is far from dead. Maybe no one has an answer, wants to answer, or hasn't read the post yet. The only person that I could think of offhand to answer your question since I can't answer (and probably not alot of people can answer that (...) (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.parts)
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| I recently received a 28 page 'idea book' with the word Byggebog on the cover. I am told 'Byggebog' means "building book" or "manual for constructions" The book doesn't have any date on it, but, according to Gary Istok, it dates from 1955 when the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Samsonsite in the US (and possibly Canada) in the early 1960s thru the 70s. They produced several sets in the line (URL) bricks come in 4 colors (red, white, blue, yellow). There was also a truck in white or grey with red wheels. They are NOT (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Gary, There is a slight chance that these jumbo bricks made it into the Europe market for a short time. There is also a chance these are just prototypes and were never sold. (URL) The 501 shown here (in the LEGO Billund archive) is in a Europe (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Gary, One other item - the 501 must date from after late 1966/1967. See the 042 in the USA 1967 dealer catalog. Same box art, etc... (URL) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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| Probably will Gary Istok have this information (but anyone else that have any information is free to answer): From the Norwegian technical museum homepages ((URL) in Norwegian only) I can read that we in Norway was prevented by law to import plastic (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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