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Subject: 
Re: -?New Body Armor?-
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lugnet.castle
Date: 
Thu, 26 Apr 2001 03:43:06 GMT
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What's the deal about the pitchfork?

In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Richard Noeckel writes:
> >                       -?New Body Armor?-
> > 
> > 
> > Marc Papenfuss recently posted the #3416 Women’s team Soccer sets to the
> > Brickshelf Gallery. In the first image (lego_3416_back_ebay1.jpg) there
> > appears to be two additional sets for the Women’s Soccer supplement:
> > 
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=4273
> > 
> > My question is this:        (And yes, it does applies to Castle!)
> > Are the 'yellow jerseys' that are atop a minifig the same as the #375/6075
> > Yellow Castles body Armor? If so, I'd buy a few paint them gray and place a
> > decal on!!!
> > 
> > Have these 'jerseys' been used before, cause this is the first time I
> > remember seeing them used outside the #375/6075 Yellow Castle?
> 
> Wow!  Good catch, Richard.  I'm pretty positive those are the same element.
> I don't think they've ever been used except in the Yellow Castle.
> 
> Cool... so either the mold for this part still existed (and was still usable
> after 20+ years), or LEGO *can* remake old molds.  There's hope for the
> pitchfork yet...
> 
> James



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  Re: -?New Body Armor?-
 
(...) Just that it's quite rare - not very many sets had it - and it hasn't been made for 15 years or so. People have speculated that we will never see out-of-production elements again because the molds are gone, or whatever. I'm taking this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: -?New Body Armor?-
 
(...) Wow! Good catch, Richard. I'm pretty positive those are the same element. I don't think they've ever been used except in the Yellow Castle. Cool... so either the mold for this part still existed (and was still usable after 20+ years), or LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle)

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