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Re: History of LEGO Windows...revisited
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:04:45 GMT
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Hello Remy, Thanks for checking! See below for comments.....
Remy Evard wrote:
> gistok@umich.edu (Gary Istok) wrote in <387B5239.D3AADAD3@umich.edu>:
> <snip>
> > The date they switched from the Type 2 cylinders (without hole) to Type
> > 3 was circa 1980. Someone with an intact Yellow Castle should check the
> > yellow cylinders to see if they have the holes or not.
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> Just popped the tower open on mine to check - they're solid. Type 2s.
That would mean that the cylinders without the holes were made as late as
1982.
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> And also, the 1x1x1 bricks with holes on the side are the older style
> with square holes, not the currently bricks with round holes. They're
> used as windows in the back tower, and look much better in this usage
> than the ones with round holes would have.
A lot of AFOLs confuse this classic window (1x1x1) with the 1x1x1 brick with
the holes on the side. This is a window, and was produced from 1957 to about
1981 (the yellow castle is possibly the last set that had these). When
classic LEGO windows started to be produced without the protruding window
sill (sometimes around 1970), some of the smallest of these windows stopped
having glass. The 1x1x2 and 1x2x1 windows call be found with or without
glass from this sill-less period of the 1970's. The 1x1x1 window, on the
otherhand, was always without glass during this period.
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> > The switch from Type 1 to Type 2 (remember Type 1 were the cylinders
> > without the tapered base, and without the hole on top) took place in the
> > mid to late 1960's. I have a 1966 set 325 (Shell Station), and it came
> > with the Type 2 cylinders, but I would have thought that the switch
> > happened a little later. Anyone who has a bunch of Type 1 bricks will
> > remember them as not stacking together very securely.
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> Aha, yes. That explains these other cylinders. Interesting. Thanks
> for the info. (Bizarrely enough I remember playing with these as
> a really young child and chewing on them, and I distinctly recall
> the amount of biting effort it took to pop apart type 2 cylinders,
> while the type 1s almost fell apart... strange thing to remember.)
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> Where do the names - Type 1, 2, 3 - come from? TLC, or from the
> fan base?
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> -r'm
I coined the phrase Type 1, 2, 3, for some of these LEGO bricks, etc., when I
started the "History Of LEGO Part 1..." series in 1998. This was for lack
of a better way to explain them.
Gary Istok
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| gistok@umich.edu (Gary Istok) wrote in <387B5239.D3AADAD3@umich.edu>: <snip> (...) Just popped the tower open on mine to check - they're solid. Type 2s. And also, the 1x1x1 bricks with holes on the side are the older style with square holes, not the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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