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(...) Today people expect a set number on every Lego item. Back in the 50's and 60's that was not the case. Many Lego items were produced back then without numbers. Wooden box sets are a good example. They were produced as numbers: #700, #700K, (...) (21 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This book is referred to as 238 in the old LEGO catalogs. See (URL) as an example (at the bottom). Eric (21 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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This morning I placed some new SEARS Christmas Catalog scans online. 1962 was the first year that LEGO was featured in the SEARS catalog. 1962 (URL) 1964 (URL) 1965 (URL) 1966 (URL) 1967 (URL) Samsonite LEGO gears are introduced in the Christmas (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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This past weekend the North Georgia LEGO Train Club had their second of two building sessions at Egleston Children's hospital in preparation for the NGLTC tree at this year's Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Festival of Trees. When our tree is (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have a box that appears to be labeled 3314 acquired from the perth city store. Also, 3314 (I think) was spotted at the Morley store. Mine had old colors in both the tub and bonus box with the exception of some dark grey 1 x 1 "teeth" pieces. (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi all, I was wondering why does this book have a number 238? I mean, if we take a look at the first scan we can see text: LEGO's Ideeenboek 1 Please let me know why this book has number 238 and not number 1. Thanks, Saso (21 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Then you dream buying lots of those sets, storing them in your closet. After waking up you find your closet to be emtpy ;-) Niels (21 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hey all, Seems that writing about Lego dreams only throws more gasoline on the fire of my Lego dream hearth. I dreamt I found a bunch more old sets but the capper was I discovered a UCS A-Wing (which just happened to brimming with dark red, one of (...) (21 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well these bonus boxes recently showed up in Australia (thanks LEGO!) and the number stamped on all the boxes I saw was 3214. Looks like maybe we got yet another assortment! In fact there were 2 or 3 variations within our assortment, and lots (...) (21 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is a great, I was wondering whether loading a .pdf would be worth it (takes ages on my PC) but I wasn't disapointed. I had not really noticed James method before but the half-stud-offset-and-tile method is even better! Tim (21 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Hi, Last week-end in The FreeLUG LEGO train show in Orléans, Xavier show me a building tip he used to make the color scheme of the blue/gray TGV. James Mathis used a close building technique (but different) for the same locomotive. I've (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) Hi, the scan is still there: (URL) there was a change some time ago in the database, I think. You can reach the scans now in two different ways. Compare this two links: (URL) you start at brickshelf you get the first (new) form of URL. A lot (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Probably because they were uploaded to the gallery, where scans do not belong. Posting scans of instructions or idea books to personal galleries are against the TOS. Adrian (21 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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In the posts on the #238 Lego book (1960-68), Eric Strand had to have the #238 scans removed from Brickshelf, and so he put them onto his own website. I was looking thru Brickshelf, and I noticed that the scans for Lego Book #239 were missing (this (...) (21 years ago, 13-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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While searching Usenet for info on a forthcoming release, I happened upon (URL) article from one Tim "Zacktron" Courtney. It seems that even way back in Aug 97 Tim was already displaying his subtle but undeniable longing for MegaBloks, even though (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I completely forgot about this one-- around a year ago I played around with writing a hangman program that could automatically detect roughly how hard a given word/phrase was(1), and tested it out with Lego words. Not overly exciting, but a great (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.general) !
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(...) Yep, sounds identical to my LEGO dreams (or you could say, nightmares). Those yellow LEGOLAND boxes... *sigh* -Bryan (21 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As always, your community commitment sets a great example. Thanks, Ed LUCNY (21 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Often our unconscious minds deliver up to us the dreams to sate the hunger that drives us through our days though we do not even know we are being driven. Our hunger and the feast come from our deeper minds, implanted there by our conscious (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.general)
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This week the North Georgia LEGO Train Club had help from some local second graders at Matt Elementry school. Students built holiday tree ornaments in preparation for the NGLTC tree at this year's Children's Healthcare of Atlanta's Festival of (...) (21 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.general)
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