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| (...) Devin, don't take it all too personally. Bickering happens even in the best of families. I have noticed that the sniping between folks happens in a lot of different chat groups, it isn't just lugnet. Having all these creative Lego juices (...) (20 years ago, 16-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Rarest Lego Road Plate
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| It has been very quiet in lugnet.general lately.... Most collectors are not aware of this road plate (on EBAY, two are shown): (URL) was the first ever ABS Lego road plate, and was produced from 1970-72, only for the USA Samsonite Lego market. It is (...) (20 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Esso Garage
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| (...) Very nice Bill. I especially love the way you used 1960's parts with modern Lego. The original Esso Service Station #310/#1310 was produced from 1957 to 1966 as part of the Town Plan system built in the classic scale (door = 3 bricks tall). (...) (20 years ago, 18-Dec-04, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Maersk and Lego
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| I was going to post this with the debate on the 10152 sets in Maersk blue instead of dark blue, but I didn't want to get involved. Forbes Magazine says that in Denmark there are only 2 billionaire (milliarden) families. The one that owns Lego and (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: rarest printed parts?
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| (...) Great pics of the named bricks Clark! The highest price I have ever seen for a named beam is $35 for an "AD 1762" from the #309 Church set. The #309/#1309 sets from 1957-63 had 3 different names "1762", "AD 1762" and "ANNO 1762", and are all (...) (20 years ago, 20-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: 10152 Update
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| (...) I agree with you Jonathan. Anyone who buys Lego as an investment should look elsewhere to invest. I own 10 copies of 6390 Main Street. Then 20 years later they re-release it. Was I mad? No, TLG never said that old sets would not be (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Just build.....
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| (...) Bill, I couldn't agree more. Maybe lugnet should come out with lugnet.lego.complain for those people who have complaints about the company and the product. That way those people who don't want to hear complaints, can simply ignore (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Just build.....
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| (...) Hey Scott!!! (One of the AFOLs I went to lunch with while working in Ann Arbor 4 years ago) How's it going! Too bad about "W" winning, huh ;-) (running for cover). I too have a lot to sort, boxes and boxes and boxes..... somewhere in all that (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | A 1960's Lego Christmas Fantasy
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| Eric Strand was nice enough to post these pictures on his Brickshelf site. I call them a "1960's Lego Christmas Fantasy". It shows many of the larger (as well as smaller) Lego sets produced in the late 1950's and 1960's. I took these pictures about (...) (20 years ago, 2-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | What to do with extra Maersk Blue Pellets...
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| OK, TLG angered a number of AFOL's. TLG won't go back and tell Maersk that they cannont commit to their order. So they will produce more of the 10152's. Without getting into the dark blue controversy, is there anything that they could do for AFOLs (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Rarest Old Lego Part
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| (...) Well Eric Strand brought this to my attention. These are the rare 1x1 round oil drums I was talking about: (URL) EBAY auction also shows the old 50's (earliest of 4 variations) Esso Pumps, and old 50's (earliest of 3 variations) Esso sign. The (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | 12 spoke Train Wheels that were not released
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| A few months ago one of the AFOL's brought to my attention the fact that 12 spoke red train wheels were not produced for sale, and yet they show up in 1968-75 Lego brochures and books. I was unaware just how much this "faux pas" existed in old Lego (...) (20 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Happy New Year.
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| Happy New Year all! Un Bonne & Heureuse Annee! Ein gesundes rutsch ins Neues Jahr! (Hoffentlich wird 2005 ein besseres Jahr wie 2004). I know that 2004 has brought about a lot of differences among AFOL's. Let's just agree to disagree, and try not to (...) (20 years ago, 31-Dec-04, to lugnet.general) !
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: FBTB Fourms: How we miss you
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| (...) What the Heck is this (didn't want to use "heck")? I just checked out that site, and it looks like a site where "raunchy Lego talk" takes place. The discussion about putting ones mouth to..... well I won't say it here, but it does mention (...) (20 years ago, 4-Jan-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: FBTB Forums
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| (...) Kevin, I got weird messages when I visited the temporary site that you referenced. The "NEWS" line (which initially says "Sign the Guestbook") changes every few seconds to some pretty raunchy lines of text (Afro-Whores, shaving buttocks, etc). (...) (20 years ago, 5-Jan-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: missing parts
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| (...) Hmmmmm, I wonder if the person who recently opened up a MISB #725 Town Plan set from 1961 can get the 3 piece missing flip-up garage parts? I bet the replacement parts folks would scratch their heads on that request! (These parts were also (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: rarest printed parts?
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| (...) S, It may not be super rare in Europe, but the 309/1309 Church is very rare in USA/Canada, where it was never sold. If you come across any more, please let me know!! :-) Also, thanks for showing the 2x10 beam from Bremen Germany. Promotional (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jan-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Anyone read Danske Modelbiler?
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| (...) Darrell, I am not 100% sure, but I think you are describing the 1:43 scale model cars that Lego made in the early to mid 1950's, BUT they were not part of the LEGO System. The box tops and pictures on the boxes of these cars/trucks do not show (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jan-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.dk)
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