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| (...) go? Back to 1972 when TLG first moved to Connecticut to start up a company owned operation in the USA, or back to 1961.... when Samsonite first got a Lego license from TLG and set up Lego shops in Colorado and Ontario to sell Lego to the USA (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego and other brand trademarks
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| (...) Ironically the very first trademarked items came out 50 years ago this year. That would be the Esso Service Station accessories. In 1955, with the advent of the Town Plan TLG produced 3 Esso trucks (#1250/#250 Esso Barrel Tanker, #1251/#251 (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego and other brand trademarks
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| (...) Good point Dave, I have never seen any acknowledgement of trademarks on any of the old 50's-70's Esso or Shell items. Ditto for the 1:87 cars/trucks. No box or brochures (that came with these items) had acknowledgements either. On the 1:87 (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How should Lego items be dated?
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| (...) On a followup note, I do use the catalog year for new items in my Lego CD, but for when Lego came to a certain country, I use the actual year. For example, Lego may have come to the USA in the autumn of 1961 (1962 catalog) but I still would (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | How should Lego items be dated?
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| Eric Strand and I had this discussion a few weeks ago, and today Allan Bedford reminded me of this discussion. How should Lego items be dated? As we all know the Lego year goes from autumn to the next autumn, based on the Lego catalog of the (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | First Year for Minifigs is 1978
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| Allan Bedford just asked me what the first year for minifigs was. According to Lugnet/Peeron/Bricklink they say 1977. But that may not be correct... Some of the sets that show the 1977 minifigs are USA sets #588 (Police Station), #575 (Coast Guard (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Random thought of the day
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| (...) I don't know how to say this without sounding cocky or pompous..... But I try to make sure that Lugnet is THE place where historical and reference information about LEGO that is found NOWHERE ELSE (outside of Billund) can be shared with all (...) (19 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LUGNet shut off
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| (...) Orion, I feel the same way... unfortunately the posts that go only to lugnet.admin don't show up when you scan thru the posts on the main post menu. I didn't realize this until 2 days ago. There are a lot of posts over there that may not be (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jul-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Suzanne, after reading your website comments, I can see the strain that this has had on your personal life. Now for the tough question.... is Todd willing to give up the code to Lugnet? If so, then there may be hope for the future of Lugnet. I (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Completing the Lugnet Database....
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| For what it is worth, I do hope that Lugnet maintains some sort of existence into the future, including the Lugnet database. In finishing up the final tidbits for my Lego CD I have been working on now for nearly 3 years, I am just about to the point (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| I was looking at a few old Lego catalogs, and I came across some errors that were made 25-30 years ago. Here's 2 examples.... Error #1) the 1977 German catalog.... (URL) is a nice 16 page catalog... but there is something missing.... 19 sets that (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Errors
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| (...) Wow Phil, that one is hard to top! (Phil and I talk frequently over Lego "anomalies", things that are not quite as one would expect them.) My favorite British error (I got this one from Phil several years ago), which is not really an error... (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Painting one of my Xlarge base plates
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| (...) Larry, although I can't help you with the painting part of your question, I can with the smooth baseplate question.... There were many instance of baseplates with smooth areas. The one that comes to mind are the Homemaker sets of 1972-82. Some (...) (19 years ago, 7-Aug-05, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Schpiffkraft Hakenkreuz
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| (...) It is reminiscent of the fellow a few years back made Lego concentration camp sets (created his own box artwork). TLG was appalled! Here in the USA we see so many Nazi war movies, we sometimes become jaded to the horrors of the past. But in (...) (19 years ago, 8-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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