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Re: LEGO Window & Door History - Part 3
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Date: 
Fri, 2 Apr 1999 08:59:13 GMT
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Jeff Stembel wrote:

In lugnet.build, Joshua Delahunty writes:
Gary Istok wrote:

Joshua is
probably more than qualified to take a stab at a Part 4 than I am.

Probably not.  I'm not a Town Jr. owner in any great way.  I can tell
you what windows exist and about when they were likely released, but I'd
be going off brochure scans and such. Out of all that's thought of as
"Town Jr.", I do think they've brought out a REALLY cool window in that
triple-angled thing that the latest large Police Station had on the
front of it.  Definitely a PLUS to recent town releases.  Of course, I
guess Extreme Team had them too, so you can credit TLG a good element
intro without admitting Town Jr. is anything but total crap (I don't
happen to think it's TOTAL crap).

I'm sure most people would use the catalogs.  If Gary actually remembers where
all the windows come from, I have one thing to say: I want your recall
capabilities! ;)  Anyways, I'll just post corrections/additions when part 4
gets posted. ;)

I'm referring to actually owning the sets, versus sussing out what's
going on from brochure photos.

Blue windows were made in the 1x2x2 size, the 1x4x3 window size (with
blue frames), and also in the "skylight" window in a similar size, as
well as the taller 1x4x5 window  and the rare 1x6x5 blue windows (only
in space sets?).

6375 (Exxon) Gas Station had one blue one.  Besides space, I don't think
anything else had them in blue.

3 sets is plenty, though, for such a rare styled element.

Yeah:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=6683

(What do you mean by "armor-guard and glass door"?)

This door appears in blue in 6349 "Holiday Villa" (Can't see it in the picture
in Pause and can't think of any other sets it appeared in).

OK, thought he MIGHT have meant the door with vertical slats in in, as
from the original yellow castle.  Both 6067 Guarded Inn and 6355 Derby
Trotter had this in Blue. Also came (comes, as it's been reintroduced)
in Black, Clear, Pink, Red, and White.


An example of a
white one is in 6360 "Weekend Cottage", and a yellow one is in 6391 Cargo
Center.

Hey, you missed the most interesting part: Unlike the non-barred version
of this door, it's almost always come in only a right-hand variety, but
the yellow one in 6391 is a unique LEFT handed copy!

(IMHO) that leaves me with one window that was made back in 1982 (to the
best of my knowledge they were only made in that one set in that
color).... the Town House (6372) set with the very rare 1x4x5 windows
(dead common in any other color) in YELLOW!
(I would even pay $20 per window for these!)  Recently a Town House set
was bid up to $73.00, which was more than I wanted to pay for just 2
large yellow windows.

You should look into the frame/glass combination that came out to
replace that window.  Also 1x4x5.  Blue came in both
6542 Launch N' Load Seaport (3 of them)
9364 Dacta LEGO Hospital (10 of them)

Gary is looking for the *yellow* versions of those. :)  As he said, only one
set has them.

Whoops.  Misread stuff.  The blue original style of this I only have
listed in one set as well:  1590 ANWB Promotional Set; I was only 1 line
off.  :-P

One nice thing about the new version: It's come in Black, Blue, Green,
Grey, Red, and White varieties, so yellow is perhaps only a short matter
of time.

Then again, it looks like that element has been superceded itself by a
new Town Jr. version that has three panes to it. <sigh>

-- joshua

-- joshua



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  Re: LEGO Window & Door History - Part 3
 
Joshua Delahunty wrote in message <370486E1.7E921849@a...sc.edu>... (...) Available in red too, again from the shop at home set number 5149 "Doors and Windows". The set comes with a right hand and a left hand glass door, a barred glass door, and (...) (26 years ago, 2-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)

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(...) I'm sure most people would use the catalogs. If Gary actually remembers where all the windows come from, I have one thing to say: I want your recall capabilities! ;) Anyways, I'll just post corrections/additions when part 4 gets posted. ;) (...) (26 years ago, 1-Apr-99, to lugnet.build)

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