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(...) Yes Dave is right. Dave and Eric Strand have been digging up lots of obscure Samsonite sets that were sold by department stores. As an example a 1969 Sears catalog shows set #49-C-4418, which is a 335 piece basic set. Not exactly a user (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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Hi all, it's with a great deal of pride that I announce the first issue of (URL) BrickJournal is a quarterly publication that will focus on the AFOL community with articles about: • People - the personalities of the community • Building - the (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Non-numbered sets in the database (Re: Book Reviews, feedback)
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(...) I would also like to see non-numbered 'official' sets in the database. Your example included the Weetabix sets, but there are other promo sets not in the DB. Life Puppet, for instance. Also, there are the sets sold through department stores, (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Lego Sets That Were Never Produced
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In lugnet.general, David Shifflett wrote:> (...) Better picture of the 1961/62 catalog here (show non-existent sets Gary mentioned): (2 URLs) and the 1963 here: (2 URLs) Eric (21 years ago, 20-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New home for Brickshelf Scan Library
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(...) AFAIK, Kevin has no plans to shut down the gallery - so I would say certainly keep them there. I think people forget that the best thing about hosting pictures on BS isn't the free hosting (which is still cool), but the fact that that's the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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ok this still leaves me with.... should I move my pictures or let them stay at BS? Sonnich "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:II8GxH.1KEE@lugnet.com... (...) coming (...) not (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Flemish Text on old Belgian Lego boxes from 1950's.
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(...) Thank you Saskia, Here are the languages (by country) written on each country's Lego boxes from 1955-58: Denmark: "System i leg" Norway: "System i lek" Sweden: "System i lek" Germany: "System im Spiel" Austria: "System im Spiel" Switzerland: (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Flemish Text on old Belgian Lego boxes from 1950's.
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(...) Hi, Systeem in het spel = System in the play (as in playing with toys) Systeem bij het spel = System with the play Du system dans le jeu = System in the play In this case, the two Dutch (and the French) frases actually mean the same thing, (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Is it possible to have more than one account on Brickshelf? Thanks a bunch! (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Flemish Text on old Belgian Lego boxes from 1950's.
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I also posted this in the local Belgian newsgroup... From 1955-58 Lego boxes had the text on the outside in the local language. Of course there were only 8 Lego countries by 1958. And each country had "Lego System of Play" in the local languages. (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.be)
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| | Re: build-fever (was Re: Some aquazone cheer.)
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(...) My post was genuine... but I won't deny that had crossed my mind ;) (...) You're always flattering Nathan! I've had some ideas but they were shelved when HoB came along; my focus went all space. Jason Spears' layout at HoB was gorgeous. It (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: build-fever (was Re: Some aquazone cheer.)
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(...) I think this is a cunning scheme to raise the number of posts in .aquazone... ; ) Speaking of Castle, when was your last castle MOC? I used to follow your work with a lot of attention : ) God Bless, Nathan (who is always mulling his next (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Non-numbered sets in the database (Re: Book Reviews, feedback)
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(...) THIS REPLY WENT TO ADMIN.SUGGESTIONS (where no one can see it from the main post pages), SO I AM REPOSTING IN LUGNET GENERAL. I agree Jojo, There are a few regular Lego sets that have rather strange numbers. The (Denmark Only) education sets (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're a fine one to comment on build/noise ratio ;) Pillar of the community and all. I'm ALWAYS building. Everyday. Even if I just tool around with some minifigs, I have to build or I'll get irritable. I need to have a project in mind or I'll (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: AoJT3: Johnny Thunder and the King of the Gypsies (Update June 18)
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Here's another update for you all. There are only 6 more updates until the thrilling conclusion. That's 24 more scenes, for anyone who is keeping count, making it longer than my previous two combined. Hope it was worth it: (URL) whole ghetto (er, I (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Non-numbered sets in the database (Re: Book Reviews, feedback)
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Hello! Sorry for revitalising an aged thread... (...) The main problem with the database probably is its strict limitation to numbers. While I like set numbers and actually prefer them over set names (because numbers are universal while names differ (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My FotD
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(...) These are my first two copies of the part(s), but I've seen them in a bunch of MOCs and am glad to get my hands on them (even if my actual LEGO building has waned lately). Dave! (21 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Heh, yeah, I got just a few comments when loading the moving truck for my move from CA to FL. I use Iris carts to organize a lot of my collection (as (URL) shows in the rental we recently moved out of), and when packing the 24' truck, I used the (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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In my case, I "found" it because it is one of my favorite parts, I own at least 40-50, if not more. And I happened to have a copy of 7239 in my office to reference ;-) (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (21 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | New home for Brickshelf Scan Library
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I am happy to announce that the Brickshelf Instuction Library will be coming back online soon. Kevin Loch has asked us, and we agreed, to host it at Peeron.com. Since we have to write a new interface for the library, it is not ready yet to go live, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce.peeron, lugnet.announce.brickshelf, lugnet.publish) !!
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