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After the recent furore it would be interesting to see what Lugnetters think on this issue. (URL) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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Here's my take! Heh heh heh... (URL) All hail the almighty (URL) Airtech Claw Rig 2004>! Long Live Studless Technic! Keith (No pun intended, but I have no idea what the FUT should this be. :) ) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Don't forget the UK release of that door in solid yellow plastic (not clear with yellow painted frames). Still looking for a good picture of that door. I've got the others here: (URL) was a variance in the doors and counterweights: (URL) clear (...) (21 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They weren't included in any USA Lego catalog that we know of but here are the catalogs Gary referred to (starting in 1964): (URL) 1966 they weren't in the catalog any more as individual cars. However they came back in the 1967-1969 catalogs (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey Dave, Hope this makes you feel better (maybe you didn't throw away Lego cars after all). The 1:87 Lego cars/trucks are die cast, but they are plastic (Cellulose Acetate from 1955-63, ABS 1963-70). The only metal part was the wheels and (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: <snip> (...) Ahh, now I see--the boxes. Eh, I still think I threw out die cast metal LEGO cars... Grr!!! ;) Dave K (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey Dave, The moment you said "bottom", I had a suspicion you were not talking about the same garages... There are 2 major garage types of the early Lego era: ---...--- Type 1: Flip-up Garages - 1955-72. This garage type is known as the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) As an aside to this particular thread, there's the single most dumbest thing ever done by yours truly (in the LEGO sense...) So I put an ad in the paper 20ish years ago--"Wanted-- LEGO, will pick (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If you look at the bottom of this page-- (URL) have two white bottoms. That said, I also have a grey bottom as well. No idea where the grey bottoms came from. I've been told that the white bottom came from the Garage set so that's how I built (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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I am getting; Multimedia files have been temporarily disabled. from brickshelf. Does anyone know anything about this? JB (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.trains, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: Congratulations to the winnning of this auction Gary! No I haven't been aware of these garage colour-mix-up at all. To be honest I have even never owned such a garage and not more than 5 H0-cars so far. That (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Bye, bye LUGNET---WHY SWEAR?
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(...) I agree completely--like I said before, it should be about self policing ourselves. My big concern is that some of the younger audience might be reading. If children repeat what they read, then we may have parents having issues with Lugnet. (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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SNIPPIFICATION Wow, I tell you, thats really excellent timing! I 'got' the first one, and I love the Le Penseur type pose, but the 'struggle to build' hasn't quite sunk in. I'll figure it out I guess :) Thanks for the mood cheerer! Legoswami (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) (URL) e (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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I Luv Lego! ==== (3 URLs) e> (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX) !
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(...) I was looking through this thread to find someone saying this, if not I was going to say it myself. I take a slightly different stance tho, to my mind swear words are useful expressions of extreme emotion and if you use them in general (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ben, Have you (or any 1000steine folks) ever seen one of these? (URL) 1962-65 European catalogs show the 1:87 cars with a red garage and a white base (the base is incorrectly shown as gray in most catalogs, except for the British ones, which (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Arne, The 1x6 and 1x8 bricks from 1955-56 (the first years for printed bricks) both had 3 "sections" underneath (although starting in 1957 the 1x8 bricks had 4 sections underneath). On my bricks (with no "LEGO" on the studs) the middle section (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The true master of language doesn't place any word in the English vocabulary off limits. In some cases, the rude word is just the correct one. Just ask Chaucer, William Shakespeare, DH Lawrence, or Henry James. Stupid use of a cuss word is (...) (21 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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(snip) two words: WHY SWEAR? My experience has been that people who swear continually aren't intelligent enough to come up with a better word to use in their vocabulary. (I figure I'm going to get some nasty comments from that statement..let's see (...) (21 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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