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Re: Lego layout from the seventies
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lugnet.general, lugnet.trains
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Mon, 15 May 2000 00:52:59 GMT
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Did you notice all the grey bricks used for the mountain. I don't recall
grey bricks being available at the retail level in the 60s, there were only
grey plates, weren't there?
Michel Magnan
> > Hi all,I've put this old pic (I'm very fond of it) on brickshelf
> > gallery.
> >
> > www.brickshelf.com/gallery/gm/op/enciclopedia0.jpg
> >
> > It is a lego train layout from the seventies,that was on an old
> > encyclopedia of mine (since its name) .
> > I really like it,because it's like I think that legos should be
> > (and they are not!)
>
> That's so cool. Check out that mountain! How many pieces in that??? And the
> station's a winner too!!!
>
> Some of the older stuff is really good, as it predated this morbid facination
> of juniorisation that TLC has developed. With less specialised parts and more
> standard bricks, you are forced to be extra creative, and the results can be
> spectacular.
>
>
> Pete Callaway (who wishes he could find all his old LEGO catalogues)
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| Yes gray bricks were not available during the 60's, only gray plates. But that doesn't mean that LEGO didn't produce them for their models. They still do it today with bricks and pieces that are not produced for the general public. Just go to a (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) That's so cool. Check out that mountain! How many pieces in that??? And the station's a winner too!!! Some of the older stuff is really good, as it predated this morbid facination of juniorisation that TLC has developed. With less specialised (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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