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| Here's another set of images of the first regularly labeled LEGO basic sets of 1953-55... the LEGO Mursten sets of Denmark, Norway and Sweden... and an image of their contents from a rare 1953-54 Danish Retailer Catalog. (URL) in 1955 (the year (...) (12 years ago, 30-Oct-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Unknown Orange LEGO Windows/Doors Found....
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| Back in the 1950-55 era TLG made LEGO bricks in at least 24 colors (but only 4 sizes... 1x2, 2x2, 2x3 and 2x4). And they also made classic windows and doors, but different from the later (1956-86) classic windows/doors era. These earlier (...) (12 years ago, 16-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Unknown Orange LEGO Windows/Doors Found....
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| (...) Thanks Dave! My favorite chapter is the one on LEGO Wooden Boxes... there are over 70 boxes not found in any online database! And lots of other unknown sets. People keep sending me items that I've never seen before, and I keep adding them to (...) (12 years ago, 16-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | The strange case of 1975 Eaton's Catalog Sets...
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| Hello Canadians.... Since I live only 10 miles from the Canadian border (across from Essex County Ontario)... I've always had a special affinity for Canadian LEGO... but there have been a few LEGO mysteries peculiar to Canada that I have never quite (...) (12 years ago, 17-Nov-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Rare LEGO Promotional Sets
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| TLG has been making LEGO Promotional Sets for other coumpanies ever since 1955, when the first Danish Esso Service Stations were giving out LEGO Esso vehicles. One of the most famous and interesting promotional LEGO sets was the 1592 Town Square set (...) (12 years ago, 18-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Rare LEGO Promotional Sets
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| (...) Chris... like most American's, I've never had Weetabix before... I've based my entire knowledge about it on Showtime's THE TUDORS miniseries BLOOPERS clip... (starting at 3:13 in this clip).... (URL) looked like Chocolate Cream of Wheat... but (...) (12 years ago, 18-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Rare LEGO Promotional Sets
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| (...) Chris in that scene of The Tudors Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) was pole vaulting over a swampy area... and the pole snapped and he got stuck underwater in the mud. They must have "pulverized" the Weetabix to give the appearance that Henry (...) (12 years ago, 20-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO Magazine Advertisements Thru The Ages
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| TLG has been advertising in magazines for over 50 years. Chapter 68 of my LEGO DVD/download has many advertisements that I've gotten from many LEGO AFOLs from around the world. Some are simple designs... others are works of art. In 1959 TLG got an (...) (12 years ago, 20-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| This guy.... (URL) it's Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen owner of LEGO! ;-) He was at Fanwelt 2012, the Cologne LEGO Show in Germany this weekend, and this picture was taken by my good German LEGO friend Sven Köppchen. Sven and a group of European AFOLs put (...) (12 years ago, 25-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Canada's Largest LEGO Sets
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| OK, I'm not referring to the mega-sets of the last dozen years, such as the Taj Mahal or the Death Star... but to 20th Century Sets. These sets are so rare, that they are likely unknown to all Canadian (and American) LEGO collectors. The sets are (...) (12 years ago, 30-Nov-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Canada's Largest LEGO Sets
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| One of the Canadian posters over on Eurobricks (where I posted this as well)... questioned me about a 7100 Educational set in Canada in the late 1970s. In the 1960s and 1970s TLG often reused the set numbers... sometimes 3 times. And from circa (...) (12 years ago, 3-Dec-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Rare USA only 6383 Cargo Center Plates
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| It's kind of odd... I just put up the 2 rare new condition baseplates in the rare USA only 1981 released 6383 Public Works Center... (URL) then someone else (I don't know) has all the other parts to this very expensive set... (URL) figure? ;) Gary (...) (12 years ago, 13-Dec-12, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | First ever image of the entire LEGO family?
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| In all my years I had never seen an image of the entire LEGO owning Christiansen family. Well that changed, when a Dutch friend found an article from 1962 in a German QUICK magazine. The article mentions that Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (son of LEGO (...) (12 years ago, 13-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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