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Re: I have these sets but can't find them in the set listings. Help!
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:55:20 GMT
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Susan Hoover wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Gary Istok wrote:
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> > Susan Hoover wrote:
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> > > In lugnet.general, Susan Hoover writes:
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> > > > Anyway, I seem to remember that 125 had 233 pieces, not 222. It
> > > > had a ?x?x1 green baseplate, windows, doors, and two pairs of
> > > > wheels with black tires. Up until I got that set, all of the
> > > > LEGO I had played with (at a friend's house) had gray wheels.
> > > > There were no minifigs, stiff or otherwise, in this set, and the
> > > > doors were not minifig scale. The doors are 1x3x? (maybe 4 high
> > > > as Gary says).
> > >
> > > I was just looking at my windows 'n' doors, and I found some 1x2x3
> > > doors that do not open. Now I am confused; which came with the
> > > 125, the 1x2x3 that didn't open or the 1x3x4 that did?
> >
> > No it was the 1x3x4 door. They started making that one around '73
> > or '74. The classic 1x2x3 door (made since '57) was still produced
> > in a few sets in '75 (#148, #400), but was totally discontinued by
> > '77, when the regular minifigs came onto the scene. Around the same
> > time ('77) the 4 brick high door was discontinued in favor of the 5
> > brick high doors still in use today.
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> Hmm. That answers my question of which one came with set 125, but
> leaves me with a puzzle: where did my 1x2x3's come from, then? The
> only sets I got as a child in the 70's were 125, 410, and 420. All of
> the rest of my collection has been obtained since 1993. I did get some
> random parts from a co-worker's son, but that kid was born in the 80's.
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> Heh. I just looked at <set:148> and it appears to have both the 1x2x3
> and the 1x3x4, in addition to minifigs that don't fit thru either size
> door! Is it possible that set 125 had both?
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> --
> Susan Hoover
> Houston, TX
It's possible that #125 had both door types, but I highly doubt it. I'll
check my 125 box tonight and see. If it did have both, it would show them
being used on the box.
Yes 148 (Red train station) had both sizes in white. Set #400
(Construction Center) was another one that had both sizes, this time it was
yellow doors (yellow was the only classic door color besides red and white
(although there is a Swedish ad on Tore Eriksson's website that shows black
doors - but no set has ever appeared with black doors).
One other footnote, the 1x3x4 (4 brick high) door most often came in 1970's
sets as a 2 color door. The frame and door were almost always of different
colors (red/white, white/red, white/yellow, red/yellow, etc).
This 1x3x4 door is IMHO one of the ugliest LEGO pieces ever produced
(although I also don't care much for the common 1x4x5 (4 lights) door of
the last 20 years).
Good luck trying to find that the origins of that classic door. There are
a lot of sets that were produced up to 1973 using the classic door, and few
up until 1977 when they were finally discontinued in favor of larger doors.
Gary Istok
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