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Re: Adult lego sets.
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Hi
I just bougth a town wood plate. It have a Blue Lego mark and it must from
50´s.
I saw in your message that you mention a 1957 German Town Plan #700, where I
can found a picture of it?. Or from the other Town plans?
The second question is where I can found a 725 Town plan inventory?
Manuel Cueto
Greetings from Colombia
In lugnet.dear-lego, Gary R. Istok writes:
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> Selçuk wrote:
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> > Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message
> > news:388379C3.FA795EE8@umich.edu...
> > >
> > > Well even in the 1970's they were already going towards simplification. • In 1963
> > > (when I was 9) I got a JUNIOR CONSTRUCTOR set #717 (a Samsonite LEGO set). • It was
> > > a model kit of a modern house (a 2 story house with flat roof that looked • similar
> > > to a Frank Lloyd Wright design). This house came with very simplistic
> > > instructions.... 4 pictures of the house on the inside box top in 4 stages • of
> > > construction. That was it. You had no idea of how the back of the house • was
> > > supposed to look, because they never showed you that side of the house. • They gave
> > > you extra bricks, and a few extra windows. But you had to use your • imagination to
> > > construct those areas that were not pictured.
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> >
> > "Gary's Junior Constructor Set" must be the most referenced set in the
> > world..:-)
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> >
> > Selçuk
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> Heh-heh, no actually the Town Plan (#725) is my most often mentioned set. • But
> the earlier 1961 Junior Constructor (an English Cotswold style manor house) is
> my holy grail. It was the first model kit not related to the Town Plan system
> that was ever produced. I have never seen an example of this earlier version
> anywhere on the internet. I don't think that very many of these have survived
> from the 1961-62 era when these first came out. Or quite possibly they may • have
> been produced in limited quantities.
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> But yes, the Town Plan is the set I talk about most. As a child, my neighbor
> across the street had one of these (they were $25 in 1963, a lot of money in
> those days). Now 35 years later I find out that there are about 10 different
> Town Plan sets (#700, #725, #810) that were created between 1957 and 1967, • with
> several variations of each set number.
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> But for the record, here are the sets that I talk about most (ad nauseum):
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> 1) 1963 Town Plan #725
> 2) 1963 Junior Constructor #717
> 3) 1975 Thatcher Perkins #396
> 4) 1957 German Town Plan #700
> 5) 1975 London Bus #760
> 6) 1962 German Wooden Box Gift set #712
> 7) 1963 Architectural Sets (750, 751, 752).
> 8) Early Service Packs (1956-66).
> 9) 1962 Building Idea Book 1 (#238)
>
> Gary Istok
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| (...) Heh-heh, no actually the Town Plan (#725) is my most often mentioned set. But the earlier 1961 Junior Constructor (an English Cotswold style manor house) is my holy grail. It was the first model kit not related to the Town Plan system that (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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