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Re: wanted: 2x2 classic windows
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:48:13 GMT
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This is a very interesting discussion but is drifting OT so should prolly be trimmed to
just .general at this point.  Thanks.

-John

Jeff Elliott wrote:

> Way back when, when Samsonite ran the Canadian Distribution for Lego,
> they offered a spare parts sale through the Lego Club.  I was a wee
> tyke then, so it must have been around 1980 or so.  I ordered a box
> of parts, and it turned out to include a small stack of baseplates,
> 32x24 and 48x24, plus a big pile of classic windows - 1x1x1, 1x1x2,
> 1x2x2, 1x2x1, 1x3x2, 1x4x2, and doors: 1x2x3, which opened.  There
> were also bunches of the old extension ladders - but only the bottom
> half.  The windows were in red and yellow; the doors just yellow, and
> the ladders were grey and yellow.  The baseplates were in green and
> in blue.  Anyone remember this sale?  I was disappointed at the time,
> but the pieces have been a godsend for making town structures.
> 
> Jeff Elliott
> 
> Gary Istok wrote:
> > 
> > Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke wrote:
> > 
> > > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Nick Goetz writes:
> > > 
> > > > Can you tell me what other sets (if the number isn't huge) come with the 1x2x2
> > > > yellow window. I have a few of these windows and I am pretty sure they did
> > > > come from that old Shell set (325). I personlly found them at a garage sale
> > > > about 8 years ago. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > for e.g. set 149 fuel refilling station from 1976.
> > > another set is 368 taxi station.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Ben
> > 
> > There were quite a few sets that had yellow 1x2x2 windows.  The Police Station set
> > #585 had the most ever, with 11 windows.  There were a few basics sets that had
> > these as well.  Sets #510 and #517, both from the mid 1980's had 2 windows in each
> > set.  I know because I bought a combined total of 90 of these sets in order to
> > build my 25 story One Shell Plaza building (on my website), which had about 200 of
> > these.
> > 
> > Yellow 1x2x2 windows are not rare.  After the white and red windows, the yellow
> > version are the most common, with the blue windows being scarcer, and the black and
> > gray versions downright rare.
> > 
> > Gary Istok
> > 
> > My LEGO buildings:
> > http://my.voyager.net/lar/gistok.html



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Jeff Elliott wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] (...) 1x2x3 doors that opened? Really?! (...) Which of those sizes of windows were in yellow? /Eric McC/ (26 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)

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