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(...) If this is part #3048, then there is one in gray in 6818 Cyborg Scout. You can't see it in the lugnet picture, becuase its immediately behind the robot. These are still seen occasionally on store shelves for $3 or less. Ray (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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It has been a rather dull month. I thought I would rehash some old stuff, and wake up some of you people - cranky from being cooped up for the winter...... What LEGO pieces are rare (in regular colors), what pieces are scarce (note: scarce can also (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Gary, Comments inserted below (...) 2x2 in gray were in the #8880 Supercar (had 2 as headrests) (...) I would say scarce in Green, which was in Gold City Junction #6765 and had one. (...) As mentioned above, the 2x2 peak in gray was in the 8880. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Which colors can you find the 1x2 low slope apex brick? I need one in red but I don't know if they even exist. -Nick Gary Istok wrote in message <38AC404A.1517ABA@umich.edu>... (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As a fan of blue slopes in particular, I consider the blue 2x2 outside-corner slopes to be beyond "scarce". The last set I know that contained them was a Basic set in the mid-80s. Prior to that there were two in a '70s "Model Team" set (one of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gray is now available in so many sets (and has been for a while) that I wouldn't call them scarce any more - I have stopped accumulating them and started selling them, I have so many. There are also more colors of slopes now readily available, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I too am a fan of the blue outside corner, but I've had much more luck getting these than the yellow ones. The 733 set had 8 of them and pops up on eBay quite regularly ,in fact, there are two copies of it on eBay right now: (URL) few yellow (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) dark grey - scarce, in some current Star Wars sets (like Sith Infiltrator). (...) green - rare, 1 2x2 peak in Robber's Retreat Ninja set (only one I know of) (...) Although blue is verging on common with them showing up in a number of Knights (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Common in Gray and Beige, Scarce in Dark Gray (possibly common soon) and Orange, White in 9748(1), maybe in 7191 UCS X-Wing, yellow available in 740. (...) 2x2's scarce in gray. (...) Common in Dark Gray. (...) Scarce in Blue, Common in Black, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) wrote: (...) I'd say blue *is* common. I have 28 of 'em already. (...) Those are dark gray, not gray. :( On the upside, we'll also be getting 10 2x2x3's, 4 2x1x3's, 2 2x8's, and tons of brown 2x2's, 2x1's, and 2x4's! And the UCS X-Wing looks (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've seen them in grey, but don't know if the were ever avaible to the public. Look at the topmost prototype of the Snowspeeder set at this page: (URL) . Alan This message's random set is: 6504, (URL) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Gary Istok wrote in message <38AC404A.1517ABA@umich.edu>... (...) <snip> (...) 6285 Black Seas Barracuda. One of them. (With the obligatory, "at least, anyway") -- joshua (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't there 10 or 12 2x2 low slope apex bricks in black in the Stone Tower Bridge Set (Ninja - 6089(?)). We might not be talking about the same piece but I have been buying this set everytime I see it for these (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The Speeder Bikes set has two 1x2 half pyramid peak bricks in brown. (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Hi Guys, something rare? How about the white Lady hair piece from Western set 365 (Wild West Scene from 1975)? Believed to be auctioned off once for over a $100,00 !!! Anybody know for how much it precisely went? Greetings and Cheers, Henk. (...) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) black. Never seen them (...) Set 6373 has two of these. (URL) the Lego Beach Fire and Rescue Service (URL) (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) How about LDraw part 3749, the Techinic Axle Pin (half pin/half axle) in *black*? I have one which I believe came from set 733. -Duane (25 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Two were in 6871 Star-Patrol Launcher. Jeff "Broken sword and shield and tears that never fall" (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have ONE of the 2x2 in light gray. I have no idea where it came from, it's mixed in with the stuff from when I was a kid . (Late 70's, early 80's) Troy (25 years ago, 20-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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How about *black* 24t technic crown gears? They were only available for the first year or so of production of the original Technic sets (956, etc..). "Duane Hess" <DNJHESS@ZDNETMAIL.COM> wrote in message news:Fq5DHL.7v2@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) WOW!! I have that set. I'll have to check my minifigs. (...) And some new set must have a lot of these (1x2 half pyramid peak) in blue as well. Just recently I obtained about 12 of these in a parts sale. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) evidently I've misplaced one of my pins over the years. -Duane (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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Jeff Stembel wrote in message ... (...) 6950 Mobile Rocket Transport (1982) as well, no? 8 of them... -- joshua (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) snip (...) I have somewhere between 3 and 10 black technic axle pins, but I don't have set 733 or 6871 or 6950. It must have appeared more recently than those sets, because my Dark Ages lasted from 1975 to 1995 (but I have a number of sets (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks Henk, now I have to go digging thru over 100,000 LEGO bricks just to find this hair piece. I went checking last night, and I found that I had 2 sets of the sticker sheets for the 365 sets, but only one box, so I must have had 2 (got (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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