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(...) OK Clark, Here we go..... (...) Yes, the white/off white inner boxes are of parts packs from 1955-59. The black inner boxes are 1960-62. The full color with flap and no inner box (tray) are from 1963-65. The monochromatic blue boxes are from (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gary, Thanks for the pictures and information. There is an interesting variety to these boxes: (URL) have a few questions: 1) Most of the boxes are colored sleeves that surround a white or black box with mono-colored graphics. But I've seen (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It was when they juniorized the palm trees. In my mind, that's hard to top. - Mike (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmm.. Is there any "truly" redundant brick in that respect? There's 1x1x5's which have a big hollow in them, usable for SOME things that a stack of 1x1 brick couldn't do (not to mention the hollow stud on the top). And IIRC the 1x2x2 brick (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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Eric Strand wrote in message ... (...) Aha! BUT, you can't put a technic pin up inside a stack of 1x1 plates like you can a 1x1 brick, so they are not functionally identical :-) Kevin ---...--- Farmhouse kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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Is there anybody out there...? Well, wrong album, however. Last night in the chat at 1000steine.de we chatted about this and that, it went from "Dark Side Of The Spoon" (Ministry) over "Atom Heart Mother" to "Battersea Power Station". I researched a (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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EBAY recently had some German seller selling a lot of 50's and 60's Lego parts and spare parts boxes. Here is a nice picture (go to the larger picture below) of Lego spare parts boxes from 1955-59. (URL) 2 boxes in the bottom row are from 1955-56. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Batman fig in background of Sept/Oct lego club mag
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Reminds me of the Simpsons seen on the underground escalator at Legoland Windsor. "Nathan Todd" <njt@london.com> wrote in message news:I5uM2M.1oD4@lugnet.com... (...) I got (...) amongst the (...) the (...) continuing (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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Visit the De Bouwsteen-site, organizer for the builders,collectors and volunteers of LEGO®WORLD. (URL) I was looking through the galleries of images from Zwolle, there are some (...) You misssing a lot;-) (...) Its a 1:100 scale model of the new (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nl, FTX)
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Sorry about those I missed! (URL) Natha> (URL) donadvance> (URL) wimpie99> (URL) pirrelli> (URL) Markassius> (URL) Brickbuilder> Tim (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nl, FTX)
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I was looking through the galleries of images from Zwolle, there are some great MOCs pictured there. Can anyone give a report on the show, apologies if I have missed one. Galleries (that I have found so far) (URL) AndreasTretbar> (URL) Tweety501> (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nl, FTX)
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(...) After all this here's an article from Friday's union Tribune. Some speculation on who could buy LLCA. etc. (URL) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Excellent (and very funny!) observation. Eric (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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1x1 brick. Can easily be made with 3 1x1 plates. :-) James Wilson Dallas, TX (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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Has anyone tred using a more powerful battery pack in the Dirt Crusher. it ships with a 7.2V 1400 mAh unit, but as this is a standard RC pack, you can get lots of more powerful ones for not a lot. I've seen one that holds 3500 mAh. Has anyone tried (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: MADE IN CHINA?!?!!?!?! that's IT Lego Re: Lego changes CEO...
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I wonder if LEGO has considered how that would affect prices in various countries. For example in Canada LEGO is duty free since Denmark is considered a preferred trading partner, but I am not sure on the situation with China, will see if I can find (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) The key words to search for are "ALPS printer" and "Hammermill" See these: (URL) went out and bought the ink jet transparencies on James Mathis' advice. They were fun and messy to print, and then the hard part started. Cutting the stickers (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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All, HELP! I've tried to track down through searching the database info/posts on how to make stickers for a special project I'm trying for my kids. Some useful stuff, but haven't found exactly what I need. Questions are: - What's the best material (...) (22 years ago, 25-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't believe that's true. LEGO targets the yound children with "cool" products that are all fresh and new. Most kids would rather have the newest theme than an old set they saw in a catalog a year ago. And if these kids wanted these sets in (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I used to think the same, until I came to build the drawbridge mechanism. (URL) stack of five 1x2 bricks has 4 more "ridges" than a single 1x2x5 brick which puts just enough extra friction on the beam that it will not fall under gravity. So (...) (22 years ago, 24-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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