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| (...) Nicely Done! As someone who builds only in the classic Lego scale (classic door = 3 bricks tall), I like "diminutive" Lego projects. As for the Sydney Opera House, here is what you need a few of: (URL) few of these sloped brick peaks with (...) (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: Scale
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| (...) Gaz, this won't be exact, but it might help. The Lego scale used for the classic era (1957-72) had Lego cars and trucks that were 1:87 scale. The classic Lego door was 3 bricks tall, and the modern Lego door is 5 or 6 brick tall. That would (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | New (Old) Town Plan sets discovered.
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| Eric Strand, who is helping me with the Lego CD (he's becoming a Samsonite expert) recently discovered some heretofore unknown Town Plan sets from the 1960's. The king of all 1960's sets was the Town Plan set with Town Plan board. In the USA/Canada (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: New (Old) Town Plan sets discovered.
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| (...) Hi Ronald, From 1960 (when Lego first came to Britain) until 1963, the continental European Town Plan board was used in Britain (along with the continental #810 Town Plan set). Starting in 1963 Britain had their own Town Plan set and Town Plan (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: New (Old) Town Plan sets discovered.
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| (...) I too was curious about the hollow bottom trees in this set, until I looked at my notes, and found that there were 2 variations of the #810 British Town Plan set. From what it appears, the first variation (1963-64?) had the Bedford trucks and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Are *we* part of TLG's problem?
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| (...) I agree. It's the "Kool Kids" culture that Madison Avenue advertising (can you say "low-carb food") and Hollywood (TV/Movies) propogate. No wonder the rest of the world hates the USA (well that and our current president). But I don't think (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Most redundant Lego part
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| Do you ever wonder sometimes why Lego developed some particular part and say to yourself "what were they thinking?". The one piece that comes to my mind is the 1x4x2 arch. I mean it is virtually identical to the 1x4 arch plus two 1x1 bricks attached (...) (20 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Lego spare parts box pictures from the 1950's
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| EBAY recently had some German seller selling a lot of 50's and 60's Lego parts and spare parts boxes. Here is a nice picture (go to the larger picture below) of Lego spare parts boxes from 1955-59. (URL) 2 boxes in the bottom row are from 1955-56. (...) (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego spare parts box pictures from the 1950's
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| (...) OK Clark, Here we go..... (...) Yes, the white/off white inner boxes are of parts packs from 1955-59. The black inner boxes are 1960-62. The full color with flap and no inner box (tray) are from 1963-65. The monochromatic blue boxes are from (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Early Lego 1949-56
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| I know that a lot of folks have been waiting for the upcoming Lego CD on the History of Lego. And I have been teasing you mercilessly. It has been taking longer because I kept changing the begin and end dates (encompassing more Lego history). Well (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | New Lego window variations.
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| While working on the Lego CD, I talked with my friend Kurt Richter of Germany, who knows a lot about early Lego. It seems that in 1957 when Lego came out with the classic windows - 1x6x3 (Panorama), 1x6x2 (3 pane), 1x6x2 (shutter), 1x4x2, 1x3x2, (...) (20 years ago, 4-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Most redundant Lego part
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| (...) Yes, but then TLG would need to create 1x4x4 arches if you want to make a colonnade with 1x5x4 (half arches) and the 1x4 arches. Or perhaps a 1x4x3 arch to go along with the 1x12x3 arches in a colonnade. Or if you wanted 1x6x2 arches with the (...) (20 years ago, 5-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Many variations of older sets
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| I was just looking at set #700 in the LUGNET database. There were 17 items under this heading. That number will be getting bigger. The #700/1 set shows 2 different versions of the set in the Lugnet database (the 1949-52 and 1958-59 version). (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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