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Re: I have these sets but can't find them in the set listings. Help!
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:30:22 GMT
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Keith Johnson wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Susan Hoover writes:
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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.
> >
> > 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
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> Wow. This was my first trip into the lugnet group. I posted my little message,
> and it turned into a study of doors. Pretty cool. Anyway, I was disappointed
> to find that my set 125 is actually a combination of sets 125,145 and a 450
> piece samsonite gift set that got all mixed up by my young cousins sometime
> during the 70's. Therefore I can't add much about what the 125 originally had.
> All the doors look the same though. And what's up with all the 2x4 bricks?
> Like almost every brick in there is a 2x4.
> One interesting note: the samsonite bricks stand out because their color does
> not match the lego legos. They appear to be made from different material or
> at least a different process. I am aware of some of the plastic changes that
> lego Denmark made, but wasn't that before they were shipped to the US?
OK, a couple of things.....
1) The 2x4 bricks were the mainstain of LEGO in the 50's and 60's. And the
predominant colors were red and white. Back in those years buildings were mostly
2 studs thick. No "1x" buildings back then. The 1x1, 1x2, 1x6 and 1x8 bricks
existed back then, but not any other 1x sizes. The 1x3 and 1x4 didn't appear
until later.
2) LEGO first appeared in the USA in 1961 (and Canada in 1962) under Samsonite.
From that date until about 1964 or 1965, all USA LEGO was made of Cellulose
Acetate. CA was less stable than ABS plastic which replaced it. CA had a
tendancy to warp. Even mint condition CA bricks warped. The red CA bricks had a
sort of orange hue to them. The white CA was "whiter" than the ABS white. The
only good thing about CA was that the pieces were more resistant to discoloration
by sunlight. Officially TLC came out with ABS in 1962. But I have sets from 1963
(and later) that had CA. I think that perhaps Samsonite might have had a larger
inventory of CA than LEGO Europe, and it appears that they made sets with CA for a
longer period than LEGO Europe.
Gary Istok
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