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| I received a 1964 Danish catalog from a European collector recently. Since I got if for free (after buying some other items), I thought it was great. The one sheet (two sided) catalog is in such great condition, I was wondering if it wasn't a (...) (19 years ago, 13-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Introducing the LEGO Affiliate Program
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| (...) I'm surprised Eric Harshbarger's name is not on that list. He's done some magnificent work with his Lego furniture, mosaic's and sculptures. He's created a whole new genre of Lego ideas. He did make it out of last summer's hurricane season, (...) (19 years ago, 14-May-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Introducing the LEGO Affiliate Program
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| (...) Here's something that would really set the AFOL community into an uproar.... what if the affiliates were able to get bricks (or parts) in bulk that were not available to the general AFOL community. Although I doubt this would happen. (Akin to (...) (19 years ago, 15-May-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: The Oldest Lego Sets
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| (...) Ooops, got a little ahead of myself...... The dates on those old 1949-56 #700/x sets are still tentative. Waiting to hear back from TLG for sure. Gary Istok (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: The all-new LUGNET .Underground
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| (...) TLG made a few interesting pictures of mine cars coming in and out of a mountain, along with a cable car going up the mountain on the outside. This is found in Lego booklet #241 and Lego book #242: (URL) then, speaking of bridges, these books (...) (19 years ago, 19-May-05, to lugnet.underground)
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gerhard, istok
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| | The Oldest Lego Sets
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| For anyone who has ever wondered what the earliest Lego sets looked like before the advent of the modern Lego, here is a pic that shows the 4 oldest Lego set styles. Eric Strand used Photoshop to size them nicely, and Clark Stephens has them on his (...) (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Trolley
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| (...) Did someone say Tan windows? Ooops Tan Train windows.... Yep 21 of the 1x4x3 and 10 of the 1x2x3 tan train windows were sold on Bricklink in the last 6 months. I find some strange items that I never knew existed, on Bricklink.... things like (...) (19 years ago, 21-May-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: The Oldest Lego Sets
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| (...) OK, I got confirmation from the folks in Billund about the actual dates that these sets were produced..... Upper Left: 1949-53 Lower Left: 1952-53 Upper Right: 1953-55 Lower Right: 1953-55 In essence what they said was these box styles were (...) (19 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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| (...) Oh, I forgot to mention.... as an example of old part continuing to show up in new sets... the old gray, old dark gray and old brown will be showing up in various sets for years to come, as we are already starting to see. As long as there is (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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| (...) Hi Dave, looks like others beat me to the punch.... But speaking of grooves, Lego tiles, which first came into production in late 1965, came without grooves in the tile parts packs #510 (1965), and #471 (1966-68). Trying to date a specific (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | The Dark Ages of Lego in the USA
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| Just like many AFOL's/ALE's, USA Lego went thru the dark ages. Interestingly enough, it was around the same time I went thru my own dark ages. The years were the 1970's. In the beginning of the 1970's USA Lego sales were licensed to the Samsonite (...) (19 years ago, 30-May-05, to lugnet.general) !!
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| | Re: The Dark Ages of Lego in the USA
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| (...) Hey thanks for the Kudo's folks! I want Lugnet to be the center of the Lego universe, so I am doing my part to help facilitate this by giving you folks info that is just not found anywhere else. I like to play Sherlock Holmes with all the old (...) (19 years ago, 1-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: What is ALE?
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| (...) Why don't we use "Adult Hobbyist Of Lego" or AHOL! After all we are all AHOLs once in a while! :-p Gary Istok (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: what is ALE?
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| (...) It certainly is interesting following this thread..... I was a secret "AFOL/ALE" from 1980-86. No internet, no knowledge of any other adult who even cared about Lego. I was in the proverbial "Lego Closet" for all those years. Then 4 things (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: More esoteric Lego history
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| (...) Here (on Eric Strand's excellent website) is a picture of KKK's younger sister, not sure if this is Gunhild or the late Hanne. This is taken from a circa 1960 Lego dollhouse brochure: (URL) Eric, show them a pic of the 1958 (twin towered) Town (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Lego vs. Tyco: Legal Battle of the Clones
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| I just came across this on the interenet. It was a legal battle between TLG and Tyco Industries, which produced (up until about a decade or so age) the best Lego clones ever. (URL) looks like TLG lost, case dismissed. Gary Istok (19 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Rarest Blue Lego Windows/Door
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| Here on a Swedish web auction is a very interesting 1955 Lego set #700/1. If you scroll down, you will see blue classic windows in the box of Lego. Next to them are red classic windows. The red ones are modern (late 50's thru 80's. But the blue ones (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Rarest Blue Lego Windows/Door
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| (...) And in case you have never seen how these rare old windows/doors fit into the slotted bricks (1949-57) here are two examples from German collector Karl-Heinz Vogt's brickshelf gallery: (URL) The top one is a 1x3x3 white window of the 1954-57 (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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