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| To Whom It May Concern: I recently posted a trades wanted page here at Page 2892 listing parts to many older 60's and 70's sets that I am attempting to complete. I recently came across quite a bit of old (cellulose acetate) pieces that might be of (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | New additions, 30% off old parts at GoB - Lions Gate Models
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| I just added a pile of tasty stuff... elevated road sections (yes, straight sections too!), crane legs and booms, spring-loaded crane grabs, windows and doors, red train windows, black 4x16 bricks and other mega-bricks, large green plates (4x12 and (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Viking Fortress Colour Oddity
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| (...) The first ones I noticed were in Knight's Kingdom sets (8875), with a mix of greys. All of the 1x8 bricks were in old grey, while the remainder of the pieces was new grey. Since then I've noted the discrepancy in a few sets, although I don't (...) (18 years ago, 4-Aug-06, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Old Parts in Legend Sets?
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| (...) And Fort Legoredo (also in black) (...) Are you meaning the 1x1x2 shutter/door hinge bricks? They are most recently used in Ninja sets. (...) 6079 Dark Forest Fortress (blue shutter) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Appraisal of Old Style Lego
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| (...) OK, Here's a few helpful tips. If 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 pieces have NO tubes underneath, and they have slots on 2 of the sides of the bricks, they are from 1949-56. If 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 pieces have NO tubes underneath, and they have NO slots on the sides (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.market.appraisal)
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| | Re: Mottled Bricks and Plates!
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| Well, I'm going to assume they are "extremely rare" in comparison to the old days. Today, they probably only run through the molds 2-3 times to clean them (the # of elements in a mold run varies by element), whereas in the old days, it might have (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LYB
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| LYB, SBB, LBB, BYOB, OPP, POP, DUI, MIP, VIP.....ya sorry I'm done now!!! Eric that is cool how you can make those color coded bots, but what about the color blind? Just kidding. I like the old smiley face bricks on the side, looks like graffiti!! (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Life is interesting...
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| In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Pedro Silva writes: <snip> (...) Well, I found it in my hands when my mom-in-law gave 'em to me :) (...) Thanks Pedro! THat link also answered a long held question of mine--I have 1x2's with notches outta the (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | The oldest known LEGO bricks set of 1949??
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| I had always been looking for the very first 1949 LEGO sets with plastic bricks, but the closest I ever got to was circa 1950... a year after the 1949 introduction of the LEGO brick (known as Automatic Binding Bricks until 1953). My German collector (...) (12 years ago, 26-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Different mold on 1x6, 1x8
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| "Ross Crawford" <rosscraw@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:HvKK4B.zxH@lugnet.com... (...) different (...) importantly, (...) brick. The (...) bottom. Can it be old molds? Wasn´t the "older" bricks without holes? (I allways thought that the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Apr-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Color confusion regarding 4755 Kinght Bus
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| (...) Forget about the box art and the fig. Look closely at the bricks on the bus. Two different shades of purple. No doubt the bricks are the old purple we've grown to love, and the windows are the new improved purple. Get used to that look, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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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: Rollout of the New Space Shuttle Intrepid
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| (...) Actually the payload doors do open and close. I have a few shots of them open while the orbiter was under construction. (URL) they don't do however is open and close very easily - I'm still battling some warpage problems there. I built the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: How accurate need bricks to be?
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| I asked about the accuracy at the bottom of the bricks (URL) answered: (...) In the case of brick 700, I know that the old versions did NOT have any tubes at the bottom. Is that something that should be modeled? I don't have any of those olde 700s, (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Biomechanical Bricks Tour Redux
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| In lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, Eric Sophie wrote: <big snip, snips abound thruout> (...) What!? Tim Courtney has MOCs? Noooooo.... :-) (...) (And I left with him) (...) You forgot the part about the Adair watertower. :-) (...) Forgive the man, he (...) (21 years ago, 17-Oct-03, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, FTX)
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