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| Great Job Sean!!!! I love your city! I especially like your Art Deco and Beaux Arts building styles. Awesome! Keep up the good work, and keep them posting! Gary Istok (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Old Window in new color!
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| Jeff Stembel wrote: <snip> (...) Thanks Jeff Stemblel and Mark Koesel!! Now it looks like the rare 1x6x5 Windows are (were) available in 4 colors. Yellow (from the old Schoolroom set) with clear window Blue (from old 80's space LEGO) with a (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Service Packs for 1999..
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| You're right. When you try stacking those macaroni bricks, they become very unstable. I usually use only 3 or 4 on top of each other, and then a curved plate on top of that (sort of an overhang). The only stability with these is if you make a light (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| The Grande Dame of LEGO, Dowager Lady Edith Kirk Christiansen, mother of Kjeld, widow of the late Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, and daughter-in-law of the late Ole Kirk Chistiansen... turns 90 years old on May 29, 2014. I was doing my due diligence in (...) (11 years ago, 22-Jan-14, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: This is why TLG lost money
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| Well I can certainly agree with you in regards to the smiley faces and wheel assortment. And there are never enought windows in these sets (or for that matter in any LEGO set). And yes, I probably have about 50 pounds of useless pieces that I have (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I'm not sure what you mean by Freestyle containing "dopey" pieces? Freestyle is the mainstay of a lot of RTLers who refuse to pay exhorbitant prices for sets that contain very few bricks and a bunch of highly specialized pieces that have no/little (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Reissue Solution: Colors
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| (...) Peter Eio, the LEGO (US) President in Enfield has a real nice secretary, who will be happy to forward any documents to him. Gary Istok (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Reissue Solution: Colors
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| (...) Well as someone who has a lot of older sets, I wouldn't be upset if they reissued some of the older sets. When you think of the thousands of sets that were produced since 1958, they aren't going to reissue more than a few anyway. It would (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 1x1 round plates in station
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| (...) Actually the latter is probably true. There were 1x1 rounds available since the advent of modern LEGO (1958), and they were always available in (regular) clear color. The earliest 1x1 rounds (with no recessed base like today's 1x1 rounds) had (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Reissue Solution: Colors
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| (...) <snip> If the set were old enough, it might make a difference if you were talking Cellulose Acetate versus ABS plastic. I bought a set #717 (Junior Constructor) from circa 1963 on EBAY recently. I was surprised to find that besides the pieces (...) (26 years ago, 10-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Play "I can name that piece..."
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| Yes, the red spoked wheel is from one of the early-mid 1970's sets that came with those wheels. Most of the sets came with red wheels, but some had them in white. They were common in some of the Model Builders Sets of the 1970's. One such example is (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TLG investigation
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| (...) Back in the olden days (early 80's) when TLG did provide very limited bulk orders (it was not easy to do because they didn't want to do a lot of it), there was a 100 piece order minimum. Gary Istok (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: TLG investigation
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| Hello Jeroen, Thank you for contacting us. TLG has not done much to acknowledge that LEGO has adult followers. As someone who has been in contact with TLG personnel over the years (even USA TLG President Peter Eio), I know that your company has (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: TLG investigation
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| (...) Yes, owning something rare makes it special and highly prized. But when I look at all my old sets, I realize that if TLG does ever make new versions of any of these old sets, it will only be a small fraction of them, and not all old sets. So (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| I agree with Mike. When you look at the vast number of sets that have been produced over the last 41 years, what difference does a few make. I have a lot of old sets, and nothing would make me happier that to purchase more of the older sets. I (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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