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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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| (...) 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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| 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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| (...) 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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| Yes, that's me in AUCZILLA X bidding up those (2) 1x12x3 white stairstep arches that are now over $15. No they're not that rare, but I had a CREDIT from previous Auczilla Auctions, and this was the only thing I wanted to bid upon. That's another (...) (25 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) The answer is yes TLG at one time did have bulk sales. But the process was not easy. TLG discontinued it in the late 80's. Here were a few details: There was 100 pieces per type/color minimum order. The price (regardless of whatever piece you (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Building exhaustion
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| (...) When you reach the "point of no return" which I have (and probably Terry also), sorting in and of itself becomes way to labor intensive. I end up with buckets that are nothing but bricks of assorted colors, with the windows, fences, slopes, (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| I have a few questions for our European and early Samsonite collectors about the late 50's - early 60's ESSO Service Station #310 produced in Europe only I believe. In the USA/Canada I believe this building only came with the Town Plan (#725). This (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I was wondering about this yesterday. I try to keep all of my new and almost new LEGO separated from the old well played LEGO. Why? Probably because I don't like to build something new, and then find that a few pieces really stand out because they (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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