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| I have the 110, 111, 112, 113 and 114 sets (at home), but I think that the 1977 year sounds correct. These were the first Basic Sets that carried arches (3 of the 5 did) in a set that was not a model kit. Gary Istok (...) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO Window & Door History - Part 3
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| I got a request recently to say a few more things about LEGO windows. I have to admit, though, that I don't know too much about the newer 1990's windows, and maybe someone else can take the baton for Part 4 -1990's windows (Town Jr.), for some of (...) (26 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: LEGO Window & Door History - Part 3
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| Right vs. Left hand doors are another interesting LEGO variation (like the classic window "sill" vs. "sill-less" varieties). I know that with the Classic Doors (3 bricks high), the 3 colors they come in are red, white, yellow. Of these I have both (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | The Gothic Haunted House
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| Reprinted from REC.TOYS.LEGO: (...) Halloween (...) year, (...) Greco, (...) to (...) and (...) in (...) you (...) you (...) category. (...) to the (...) and I (...) winners on (...) place on (...) will (...) celebrate (...) provided by (...) (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | J.L. HUDSONS LEGO Window - 1962.
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| Last week I was at a historic preservation meeting at a Detroit group that I belong to (called Preservation Wayne). At that meeting a fellow who knows I collect LEGO gave me a color copy of a 1962 window display from the J.L. Hudsons department (...) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Now I understand...
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| (...) (I know some of you hate this story...) I remember paying $7.35 per set of the London Bus sets back in 1986 in a clearance sale. I can't say I wish I would have bought more, cuz I bought all 35 at the Toy Store chains 6 Metro Detroit outlets. (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help me god (or anyone)...
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| (...) My what enthusiasm! Check out Michael Dorneich's website which has a large cross reference of other peoples websites (including mine). It is a wealth of townscapes and other LEGO related data. (URL) building, Gary Istok (26 years ago, 19-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | The Golden Ages of LEGO
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| REPRINTED FROM RTL: lego fan wrote: Like John said when you first started out building .... those were the best years .... which is why I think that the golden years were 1961-65, my early years. That was when the Town Plan (set 725) with 1150 (...) (26 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Nostalgia and Educational Lego
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| (...) Scandanavian Castle). I have a 1970 Samsonite LEGO dealers catalog, and it states that this is a new 1970 item, and wasn't available for more than 2 years, so it must not have been all that popular. I don't think this was available in Europe, (...) (26 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Golden Gate Bridge cables
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| Well, I haven't been to LEGOLAND California yet, but the 1x1 cylinder bricks have a hole in the top of each brick (where the "LEGO" logo is supposed to be), and you could string them together. The 1x1 cylinder bricks (one of my all time favorites), (...) (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: LEGOLand newsgroups?
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| Todd, If memory serves me correctly the LEGOLAND Germany will be in a southcentral German town of Guenzburg, which is in the province of Schwaben in the German State of Bavaria (Ger: Bayern). It is somewhere east of the historic city of Ulm (an der (...) (26 years ago, 27-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Maersk Truck sighting in Michigan
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| This morning on my way to work on the I-94 freeway (motorway/autobahn) from Detroit's eastern suburbs to Ann Arbor (50 miles west) I saw a Maersk truck on the road in front of me. I knew it was the Danish company because it had the light blue (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Meijer - Lego Horse
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| Wow, that's the Meijer I visit sometimes on my lunch hour. Scott, if you see a 6'3'' brown haired guy (with goatee type beard) shaking his head in disbelief in the LEGO aisle, that will probably be me. But since it's not your primary job, you're (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Meijer - Lego Horse
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| OK, before I get into the Midwest topic, I'll discuss something LEGO related..... Macaroni bricks are not found in any Basic/Freestyle sets. OK, now back to the Midwest.... There is no easy answer. If you say that there are 4 areas of the USA, then (...) (26 years ago, 3-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us)
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| | Re: Question about buckets
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| (...) Yes, Tom is correct. If the bucket shows no picture of the contents, then you probably have one of those buckets that is bricks only, no doors, windows, or specialty pieces (like those 950 piece buckets, I forget the number). Gary Istok (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Corrections to LUGNET Sets Database.
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| I've been browsing the LUGNET sets database recently, and found a few omissions and changes that need to be made in the early Samsonite sets. Who do I contact to correct these? Here are what needs changing: The following sets list 1967 as the start (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Corrections to LUGNET Sets Database.
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| (...) Thanks for the reply Joshua (and thanks especially for all the work in keeping the databases updated!). The next thread will go to lugnet.admin.database. I studied that page (from the supposed 1961 Samsonite Catalog) on the website. I assume (...) (26 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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