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| Service packs and individual parts sales are relatively new (only last 20 or so years) to the USA and Canada. But in Europe individual parts sales started in 1950 in Denmark, and Service Packs started as individual sales either from mail-order, or (...) (11 years ago, 15-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | LEGO Wooden Box Sets sold to Beauty Parlors/Barber Shops
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| A discussion with a LEGO Archive employee last year about wooden box sets, came up with a previously unknown use for LEGO sets... the fact that TLG was marketing the wooden box sets in the early years of their production to Beauty Parlors and to (...) (11 years ago, 18-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | First LEGO Plastic was Cellulose Acetate and....
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| Well the first LEGO plastic produced for Automatic Binding Bricks (LEGO bricks from 1949-53) by TLG Billund Denmark were made of Cellulose Acetate. And anyone who has seen very old LEGO plastic can tell how much it warps. Just doing some research (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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| | LEGO sold in Asia.... from Lebanon to Japan...
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| LEGO sales were started in Asia in 1962 and thereabouts in Japan and other countries... Hong Kong, Lebanon and Singapore... and later other countries. In Japan LEGO was first imported from Denmark by the Asahi Corp. from 1962-69, from Fujisho Corp. (...) (11 years ago, 25-Aug-13, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| Just found some extras that I'm offering as freebies for 3 LEGO DVD/download orders.... only on August 28.... (free shipping of these paper items in a Christmas card + envelope)... 1) a 1969 USA Samsonite Catalog (not folded in superb condition) (...) (11 years ago, 28-Aug-13, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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| When TLG first started the LEGO System of Play in 1955, TLG immediately created 4 small spare parts pack size LEGO sets (1210, 1211, 1212, 1213). But the first real model sets came out a year or two later in 1956-57. These were larger Town Plan era (...) (11 years ago, 25-Sep-13, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| LEGO transparent bricks have been produced by TLG since approximately circa 1951. The first trans-clear bricks were slotted bricks with no LEGO on the logos, but LEGO on the underside in block letters. This continued until 1956, when the slotted (...) (11 years ago, 1-Oct-13, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Beautiful Alphabet LEGO bricks...
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| 2 years ago my German Friend Lothar found some beatiful blue Norwegian alphabet bricks with gold printing from a 1957 #1234 Norwegian Alphabet Bricks Parts Pack. In all other countries these bricks were only sold in white with blue lettering. (URL) (...) (11 years ago, 12-Oct-13, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | The most valuable LEGO part.
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| Except for LEGO items that are made of gold or platinum, and have a high intrinsic value, the most valuable LEGO part ever produced is likely the very rare and highly collectible Opel Kapitän LEGO HO scale car of 1957. This car was a prototype that (...) (11 years ago, 16-Oct-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Dark Ages of Lego in the USA
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| In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: SNIP a lot of interesting info (...) Y'know, I'm really glad your on Lugnet, Gerhard, because you really provide a wealth of historcal background on Lego, which in turn gives the hobby & community a lot of (...) (19 years ago, 31-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Got a letter from Susan Williams
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| Matthew, (my first article here) This is the same crappy generic reply TLG sent me back into the 1980's. That's why I went over their heads and sent a letter to Peter Eio (then) president of TLG USA. He had the Consumers Affairs manager reply to me (...) (26 years ago, 8-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | What's your current project?
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| My current projects are: 1) finishing my new Gothic Cathedral (about 4 feet long) with: 110 Red arches, 2000 clear bricks for windows, and about 200 red 1x1 round and cone bricks for pinnacles. 2) working on a theater that I'm calling the "FOX (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Tiles
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| I have a German 1968 catalog. Some of the Parts Packs have ...... you guessed it. TILES! They had 3 different sets: red/white tiles, blue/yellow tiles, and black/grey tiles. This had the 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2 (I didn't see the 1x2 with central stud (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-98, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Lots more images of sets added to database
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| Todd, Great job! I know this gets difficult when you're dealing with foreign languages and sets with no years anywhere on them. I have about 30-50 sets to add to this list. How do I go about doing that? Also, I have some additional info to add to (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.database)
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