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| (...) Hi Ronald, From 1960 (when Lego first came to Britain) until 1963, the continental European Town Plan board was used in Britain (along with the continental #810 Town Plan set). Starting in 1963 Britain had their own Town Plan set and Town Plan (...) (20 years ago, 19-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I too was curious about the hollow bottom trees in this set, until I looked at my notes, and found that there were 2 variations of the #810 British Town Plan set. From what it appears, the first variation (1963-64?) had the Bedford trucks and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) In FTX, you can include brackets, braces, underscores, etc by escaping them with a single back quote (first character on your keyboard): _underscore_, [brackets], {braces}, |bars|. Take a look at the raw message to see how it's done. --Bram (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| (...) Hi Samarth, I'm glad you've had a warm welcome already. I have looked at your brickshelf pics many times as you have added stuff, at first I thought you were English (because of the class 50 and Flying Scotsman.) but then realised that you (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hi. I recently split open one of my red 12v train motors and I need the following motor parts to get it runnable again. One brush and brush spring (from side B of the motor, I guess the brushes on each side is identical, but I'm not sure). Also I (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Old Ole Kirk is propably turning around in his grave about these militaria sets. A stab in the back of every idea of childs play on which Lego was founded. Those galidorsaurs are only a very weak coverup for an attempt to cater for a gun- and (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) These are relatively unknown to European collectors. They were only ever produced in USA/Canda in 1970-71. I have a pair of these. I use one as a castle courtyard plate (there are no lane markings). This was the first ever plastic roadplate, (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Holy exploding catfish of mechadom Batman! And there's more! I see the other post and I also just used the "up" link from your folder. I, I just can't comment on all this right now. It's too much....mecha brain...overload.... Way cool man, way (...) (20 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| hey all... i've been meaning to share these for a while - retrobot - completed nov 04 (URL) i just tried to give this one a retro japanese mech look. additionally, this was my first attempt in making a 'studless' mech. i couldn't cover them all, but (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Nice work Nathan. I really like the bed and the way you've positioned the air tanks to look like fuel tanks. You should build a HEMITT: (URL) It's not shown in the picture, but they have an arm on the back for rolling containers on and off the (...) (19 years ago, 27-Oct-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| Hi all, I just got second copies of a few older sets in my collection, and found some interesting packaging variants. The biggest change was with (URL) Set 120> from 1966. I have two copies, both US/Samsonite versions. The packaging is pretty (...) (19 years ago, 26-Feb-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) The #120 set was produced from 1966-72 in USA (and 1966-73 in Canada). You have encountered 2 of the box variations. There are more than just 2 however. Sets from 1949-73 have many many packing variations and box style changes. Basic set (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Roy, I have at least two varieties of the 120, not counting the later version with flaps. Here are some more Samsonite pictures: (URL) The boxes with two patents are from 1965/66 to around 1967/68. The boxes with flaps and pictures on the (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Interesting question. As far as Melbourme based fans go, I'm probably close to the oldest regular contributor. However there is at least one other fan who turns up occasionally when he has something interesting to show or trade. I don't know (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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