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The Golden Ages of LEGO
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Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:20:34 GMT
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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 pieces and a
city board with 8 blocks for building, and an assortment of 138
different parts packs to supplement the Town
system, all were available. Can you buy "macaroni" bricks in
any color or quantity today? How about
windows and doors in unlimited quantity (based on your wallet),
or as many clear bricks as you can possibly
want? That was 1961-65, my golden years.
Gary Istok
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Wow, Gary, you are so lucky - I was born too late! I have never
even had the good fortune of seeing, much less building
with a Town Plan set! Plus, those cool little cars I have seen, but
never had, either. I suppose, looking at it from the
collectible perspective - the 80s were great, but the 40s, 50s and 60s
would truly be the "golden" age for Lego. 70s and 80s
- "sliver" maybe? Have fun! John ( jdiri14897@email.msn.com ) remove
NOSPAM:
Thanks John. You are going a bit too far back though. I'm not an
expert on the prototype years of LEGO (before 57 or 58
when they finally made the binding tube bottoms toLEGO bricks). But
around 1957 or 1958 LEGO started taking off in
Europe, and 1961 it started in the USA. I was fortunate to have an
Uncle and Grandfather in Germany who sent me my first
LEGO back in 1960 (I was 6) a year before it was available in the US.
Yes, the Town Plan (#725) was an awesome set. It was only available in
the US and Canada (Samsonite). TLG never
produced it in Europe. Over there they only had the Town Plan Board and
all the individual kits (ESSO Gas Station, Store,
Church, Car Dealership, Garage, Stores, etc) to buy "a la carte". And I
think that the Town Plan Board was awesome. I still
have my 1960's damaged Town Plan Board (#246 in USA (1961-65), #200 in
Europe (1958-1968)), but have been able to
purchase a near mint example of one last year. I would like to get a
specimen of the older European board (1958-60) that was
never available outside of Europe. What I want to do is to build all
know Town Plan streetscapes, and then photograph them
and post them. There are at least 6 different street scenes, most are
found on the cover of 1958-65 Parts Packs boxes.
Even though the 1960's were my Golden Age, I have to add that every
decade since then has added to my collection. LEGO
building today is unimaginable without my favorite piece, the LEGO Arch,
an innovation of the 1970's. And then there are the
great rolltop garage doors, an invention of the 1980's - another
favorite. And then we have those railing pieces and stairstep
arches, that came out in the 1990's.
For TOWN collectors like myself the past decades are but "parts packs"
for my building designs.
There are a few things that I wish were still available today (from
TLG). That would be 1) the classic LEGO Windows, and 2)
the large assortment available back then of clear bricks. That's the
part of my Golden Ages that I would like all AFOL to be
able to experience today.
Happy Building!
Gary Istok
P.S. Although I didn't mention this before, during my golden age there
were 9 different window types available in red and
white. What do we have today, 3 or 4?
"In the beginning ..... there was TOWN...."
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| On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:20:34 GMT, Gary Istok uttered the following profundities... (...) Internally, TLG refer to the arch bricks as "n x n with bow." Useless trivia.... (25 years ago, 2-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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