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| (...) Allan, I can't speak for Eric, but yes he has found a whole new genre of Lego items, namely Samsonite Lego catalog sets, which are not found in any Samsonite catalogs. Eric keeps an eagle eye on EBAY, and surfs the net looking for new stuff. (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Samsonite LEGO in 1960s SEARS catalogs
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| (...) Yes, I've looked through your folder several times. Not every item every time, but on each visit I take a look at a few more of the old sets. Growing up in Canada, most of my childhood LEGO sets are marked 'Samsonite'. Luckily for me, my (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Samsonite LEGO in 1960s SEARS catalogs
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| (...) Allan, Thanks for the comments. I'm fascinated with Samsonite LEGO and these catalogs help date many of the old sets. Here is 1963: (URL) Take a look around my other brickshelf folders and you'll find some other interesting Samsonite LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Green Baseplates going out of style?
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| (...) I have seen WM dumping those on and off for the past year (never found any less than $3 tho). I think its mostly the computer system deciding that its a very slow moving item and dumping it. Last time I checked, TRU had plenty of these in (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | Green Baseplates going out of style?
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| Tony and I are up here in Texarkana Arkansas, and we've been going around looking at the local retail stores for cheap LEGO. We've noticed that both Wal-Marts up here are liquidating their 32x32 Green Baseplates. The Arkansas side Wal-Mart super (...) (21 years ago, 5-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
| | | | | Level 42 mosaic
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| Hi all, The unglued "studs-up" one-stud-wide mosaic is finished: Level 42 - my favourite band from the eighties. (URL) Read the story on my (URL). Greetings, Maarten (21 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.loc.be, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) Hello Arne, I have to politely disagree with you. If what I am thinking is correct, you are seeing what appears to be grey parts in the #218 (2x4 bricks), #219 (2x3 bricks), #220 (2x2 bricks), #221 (1x2 bricks), #222 (1x1 bricks) #223 (1x1 (...) (21 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Protocol?
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| How does one call for a contest 'round these parts? I'm interested in proposing one with a space theme, but I wasn't sure of the proper process. Is there a specific way it's done, or is it an informal if-you-propose-it-th...will-build kind of thing? (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Fun with chrome
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| (...) Ooh shiny! Rob Great stuff. Highlighted (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Fun with chrome
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| In preparation for the up coming NGLTC Festival of Trees project I had the task of coming up with a tree topper for our tree. I needed something that sit high on the tree and be noticed, something with some sparkle. So I got out my box of chrome (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX) !
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) Ooo, do you have inventories for these sets? (hint, hint!) Stuff that's pre-70's in Peeron isn't terribly complete... (even pre-80's is sketchy for some stuff) Actually, I guess Peeron even accepts "partial" inventories if you know a few (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) Normal grey bricks like 2x2, 2x3, and 2x4 were available in abundance in 1960/61 in expansion sets like 218, 219 and 220. Also, as far as I know, grey plates were used in 1957 in set 323, Train. Arne, Copenhagen (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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| (...) Hey Scott, Everthing you wrote is correct except for this: (...) If you look at the Snowspeeder set you will also see that Luke and Dack are yellow. Thats because the Snowspeeder was in the last wave of sets to have yellow minifigs - along (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) I do think that #3 is an important issue. Might be convinging as well. Maybe if you add that that 'nightmare' is due to the similarity of the colors (and you have to compare them consistently if you don't wanna mix them up), the more room/bins (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) GREAT post! You sure summarized pretty well my feelings. Well said! Best regards, Paulo-Renato (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) Hey Dave, Peeron is wrong on some of the 60's dates for grey. In 1963 (Christmas 1962 to be accurate) grey plates in 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and strange as it may seem 8x11 came into production. These early ones were Cellulose Acetate. They (...) (21 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) Oops, wrong link... (URL) Yeah, grey *brick* was really uncommon until around 1984 when the castle (...) Cross between bored and curious I guess :) Once I realized how to do it rather quickly, it was pretty easy... Though admittedly writing a (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) Parents (and, in theory, kids) are also on LUGNET. Nothing at all prevents an AFOL from writing a letter that emphasizes the parental perspective more than the AFOL perspective (if at all). An AFOL-parent has the advantage that they can be (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Color change: Let's go straight to the CEO!
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| (...) I didn't say profit was their only principle, I said it was a primary one. A company doesn't make changes just because they think it's an improvement. That improvement has to cut costs or increase revenue (via increased customer satisfaction (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Color change: **CEO Draft Letter**
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| (...) as making very late appearances... (...) Yeah, the earliest grey bricks I got were in classic space set 894 Tracking Station in 1979 (a 2x4 and a bunch of 1x1,2,3). (...) Yup! Must've been bored! ;] Thanx, KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, (...) (21 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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