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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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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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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
(score: 2.089)
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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
(score: 2.089)
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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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gerhard, istok
(score: 2.088)
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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
(score: 2.088)
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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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gerhard, istok
(score: 2.087)
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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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gerhard, istok
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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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gerhard, istok
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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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gerhard, istok
(score: 2.084)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Items removed from Brickshelf
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| In the posts on the #238 Lego book (1960-68), Eric Strand had to have the #238 scans removed from Brickshelf, and so he put them onto his own website. I was looking thru Brickshelf, and I noticed that the scans for Lego Book #239 were missing (this (...) (20 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
(score: 2.083)
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| | Re: Items removed from Brickshelf
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| (...) Let me clarify this statement.... there are so many different variations on early sets (the color something is painted, the color combinations, the box picture, etc), that with some sets such as #214 (classic windows/doors spare parts) there (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Items removed from Brickshelf
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| (...) Today people expect a set number on every Lego item. Back in the 50's and 60's that was not the case. Many Lego items were produced back then without numbers. Wooden box sets are a good example. They were produced as numbers: #700, #700K, (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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| Hi Jake, I NEVER get involved with controversial issues on LUGNET, but I couldn't stay quiet any longer (or I might explode into a million minifig parts). First off, the color change thing. OK, it's a done deal. People GET OVER IT!!!! If you don't (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego) !!
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Appraisal of Old Style Lego
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| (...) OK, Here's a few helpful tips. If 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 pieces have NO tubes underneath, and they have slots on 2 of the sides of the bricks, they are from 1949-56. If 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 pieces have NO tubes underneath, and they have NO slots on the sides (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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gerhard, istok
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