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| (...) the same question that I'll ask... 3x3 corner slopes!!!! In a Swedish parts packs? I'm assuming that we are talking low slopes in RED, right? And not any other color, right? If that is the case, are these only in the Swedish sets? Or how (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Low Corner Slopes in Roof Parts Packs?
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| (...) It's too bad that TLG doesn't make a 1x2 low slope (half pyramid) roof peak piece that would be used in conjunction with these low sloped corner bricks, like they do with the regular sloped bricks. Is that a possibility, or would there (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Low Corner Slopes in Roof Parts Packs?
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| (...) James, if you want a low-slope gable connector, then I'd want (most assuredly Rob Farver too) a low-slope INSIDE CORNER 3x3 brick, which also doesn't exist, because that is the piece that would give a low-slope gable connector a reason to (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Fence colours
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| Ah yes! The proverbial lattice fence pieces. Others have already described the 2 different styles. Actually there are 5 different Lattice styles (that I'm aware of) since they first came onto the scene circa 1968. For the 1x4 and 2x4 sizes Joshua (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Giving away Lego...
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| I know what you mean about giving away LEGO, about 10 years ago I bought a THATCHER PERKINS locomotive model kit in Germany (about $25). The store had 2 of them, and I purchased only one. When I got home I built it, and my 10 year old nephew said (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Fence colours
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| Darn. I though I was the only one that liked that pink color. I've got a book on Miami Beach Art Deco Architecture of the 1930's. WOW, it is awesome! I plan on recreating some of these fabulous Art Deco Moderne 1930's pastel creations using some of (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Ya know folks, this is what I really love about being in contact with all of you AFOL's, both in Lugnet and RTL - sharing all this info. (It certainly is more satisfying than flaming newbies, or going of on senseless threads ...) No single one of us (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Steep Corner Slopes.
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| Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Now that we've analyzed the Low Corner Slopes, how about Steep Corner Slopes. Granted Steep Slopes don't come in Service Packs (too bad), and are therefore much much scarcer (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Curiosity...
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| Fred, Michael Dorneich has an superb website which is literally a table of contents for who's who in LEGO. It's called the "MCPD's LEGO INTERNET RESOURCES QUICK REFERENCES GUIDE" (ie Everything LEGO) located here: (URL) is very helpful, and will (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Macaroni Bricks.
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| I copied this over from RTL: Gary Istok (...) That's right, you used to be able to buy the macaroni bricks in red, white, blue, yellow, black, clear, and later in the '60s also in grey. They came in the Supplemental parts packs that were available (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Fence colours
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| I was browsing thru some of may old fence pieces, and came across an old parts pack from 1982, small set #1209 (in clear plastic bag) which I purchased in Germany. It was sold with the train accessories, and contains 6 red (2x4) pieces and 1 red (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Thanks for the info Mark, I guess those 2x3 black gates aren't as rare as I originally thought. But to put them together with red fence pieces? That seems pretty strange. It makes me think that sometimes TLG puts together service packs based on (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) No problem Simon, a gable (in the context I am using it) is a peak roof piece. A gable connector is one of those 2x2 (regular sloped) peak pieces that looks like someone took a bite out of it. In a roof construction, it is used when you use (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Samsonite (USA) vs. TLG (Europe)
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| (...) Simon, Here are 2 examples of what was available in the USA (Samsonite) in 1961 (first year LEGO available there), and what was available in the UK in 1961. (The USA brochure is from Bill Katz/Joe Lauher, the UK brochure is from Ray Gal.) (...) (26 years ago, 2-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 1960's Architectural Parks Packs
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| I copied this over from RTL, Gary Istok Folks, In the 1980's I purchased about 20 "architectural" parts packs (all small plates (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3 and 2x4) in Germany, that look like they were geared towards adults, and not children. Recently EBAY (...) (26 years ago, 18-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: sticker shock
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) This is my first forray into LUGNET.TRAINS, so I'm a fish out of water, (TOWN is my home turf). Thanks Larry, since I'm probably one of the few AFOL's that is building my city in the classic scale (3 bricks high (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | My Tribute To LEGO...
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| I just wanted to take a moment and not educate anyone about LEGO (wow that's a switch)... hehehe! I just to say thanks to all those that have helped me thru the last few difficult years... even though I've got a lot of work to do yet to make amends (...) (11 years ago, 5-Feb-14, to lugnet.general)
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| | The first LEGO sets in Austria were in German
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| OK... here's the background... first LEGO sets with writing in the local language(s) started in 1955... with Denmark, Norway and Sweden LEGO sets with "LEGO System of Play" in the local language on the box top. This was followed by Germany in 1956 (...) (11 years ago, 5-Feb-14, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Wax removal?
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| (...) Try using discarded women's panty hose/nylons. That was what I saw recently on a Cable TV show for removing wax. I would agree that first freeze and then break away the large pieces. And I don't think that panty hose would scratch the LEGO. (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New creations on my website
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| Wow Rob, I love that Brown Tower! It reminds me of a medieval monstrance (a large towered reliquery (found mostly in European Cathedral treasuries) that had strong Gothic influences, and usually contained saintly relics). It really looks frightfully (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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