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(...) I once found a book about Lego at my local library, see my old message: (URL) and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen' (actually in Swedish), ISBN 91-972715-8-6] Stated as facts in this book are: 1947 - LEGO Billund A/S buys it's first injection mold (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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I have three different versions of this set, and am wondering if there are any more? I have the Boeing 727 (698), the Lufthansa promotional (1560) and the Sterling promtional 727 (1552). Are there any others? (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Geoff Lilleker also has some speculation about Lego purchasing the rights from Kiddicraft. Seems a little less biased but I'm not sure what is true. Select Kiddicraft or Lego from this page: (URL) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I had some extra time at work on Friday. Yeah, that's my excuse. :) Since your movies are in quicktime I used quicktime viewer's "copy" feature to capture screenshots. Then I pasted and cropped each screenshot using a simple image viewer and (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gary: This court case was remarkable for GKCs testimony that the original Lego block was in fact a copy of the Kiddicraft block. There is a summary (which is VERY biased) on the Best-Lock site: (URL) the expiration of Lego's major patents they (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, every new fact I uncover raises many new questions, my head may explode eventually. I originally thought that both sisters were older than KKK but Dave has sent me a high-resolution copy of the image above and it is clear that one sister (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ben, thanks for the correction. So, FAO Schwarz marketed the 116 in 1968 and Sears marketed the 118 in 1969. There may have been other retailers too but at least we know about those two. Eric (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) That particular picture came from a 700/4, however that same picture was featured on 700/0, 700/1, 700/3, 700/3a, 700/4, and 700/5 (and supplementary sets too). There are Mursten, Bausteine, and System varieties depending on the year of (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Even though I'm from a different continent I can relate to much of what you're describing here, although the end result was somewhat different... I can definately remember weekend cartoons (Transformers, GI Joe, MASK, inspector Gadget etc (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow. What a great post (I mainly say this because you linked to Mr.Ham). Warning: Rambling About to Commense I think a better title might have been "The Art of LEGO: A New Perspective" - that usually when we think of the 'Art of LEGO' - we (...) (21 years ago, 5-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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