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| One of the most interesting LEGO sets in recent times has been the 6661 Mobile TV Set of 1989. This set was sold everywhere, and would have an otherwise dull existence if it weren't for the fact that Germany has a very interesting variation of this (...) (13 years ago, 20-May-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Recreating old sets
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| Hi all It is funny to think, that as a child there were only a few sets I did not get in certain series which I collected. Now, here they (almost) are: (URL) choose to collect the parts from BL and build the sets rather than buy them ready. It is (...) (15 years ago, 2-Oct-11, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town)
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| | Very First LEGO Sets...
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| For my LEGO DVD, I broke the early basic sets chapter into 2 halves, both of which are much bigger than on my early CD. The Automatic Binding Bricks of 1949-54 are just a few sets and 2 parts packs... but they are among the most complex and least (...) (14 years ago, 10-Apr-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Users Guide: Call for Volunteers
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| (...) Hey Lenny, I've got a Few ideas. First, the personal webpages are a hugely underused feature of Lugnet. On the front page there is a button for how to go about making a personal page, but there is no master list (or at least none that is (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| | Re: does anyone has information about this WDR panel?
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| (...) Boy answering a 9 year old thread... I just got involved with this one this week with the LEGO Archives and Collections folks in Billund. They are investigating this one. I tend not to think that this was a job done by the WDR TV folks, but (...) (14 years ago, 1-Mar-13, to lugnet.promo, FTX)
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| | Re: Extremely Rare MISB Mosaik Set Located...
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| (...) I just got an image from the LEGO Archives from Billund on their version of the 1300 set. It was an open set, and shows what the set looks like without the brochures.... (URL) believe that this set contained so few parts because TLG wanted to (...) (14 years ago, 25-Feb-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 10232 Palace Cinema - Modular Building.
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| (...) Hi Anders!! Sorry about that... that image will be in the next version of the LEGO DVD/download (in about 4-5 months)... which will be free to current owners. I was looking at the "updated" chapter. I'll have to make sure to look at the (...) (14 years ago, 5-Feb-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Unknown LEGO Set... (and yet another one)
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| (...) Well got a quick reply from the Billund Archives folks today. They have never seen that set either... and believe it is of Swedish origins (circa 1959), and as I mentioned, likely an institutional school set. Gary (14 years ago, 12-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Unknown LEGO Set... (another one)
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| (...) Well I found out some very interesting information on this set from the investigations of my Billund Archives contacts today. It seems that in Japan LEGO was always mainly a large city department store item only found in big cities... not (...) (14 years ago, 9-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Unknown LEGO Set... (another one)
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| Here's another unknown set... this one from 1986, and produced for Japan... (URL) checked with the Billund Archives folks... they have no records of this set either... so they're contacting the Japanese sales subsidiary to ask why that is?? Another (...) (14 years ago, 3-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The oldest known LEGO bricks set of 1949??
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| Oppss... forgot one image in the LEGO DVD/download chapter on windows/doors... Tall classic windows... only ever sold in... Denmark... red, white, blue, dark blue. Sweden.... red, white, blue, yellow, orange. Norway.... red, white, blue, green. (...) (14 years ago, 2-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | First ever image of the entire LEGO family?
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| In all my years I had never seen an image of the entire LEGO owning Christiansen family. Well that changed, when a Dutch friend found an article from 1962 in a German QUICK magazine. The article mentions that Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (son of LEGO (...) (14 years ago, 13-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO Magazine Advertisements Thru The Ages
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| TLG has been advertising in magazines for over 50 years. Chapter 68 of my LEGO DVD/download has many advertisements that I've gotten from many LEGO AFOLs from around the world. Some are simple designs... others are works of art. In 1959 TLG got an (...) (14 years ago, 20-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | The strange case of 1975 Eaton's Catalog Sets...
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| Hello Canadians.... Since I live only 10 miles from the Canadian border (across from Essex County Ontario)... I've always had a special affinity for Canadian LEGO... but there have been a few LEGO mysteries peculiar to Canada that I have never quite (...) (14 years ago, 17-Nov-12, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: The LEGO Company and the North American AFOL
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| In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote: <snip> I do want to be prefectly clear regarding my comments--I have no issue with discussion. Actually, I actively encourage it! One only had to go to the archives of off-topic.debate right here on LUGNET to (...) (14 years ago, 16-Nov-12, to lugnet.general)
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