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Re: Weird, Small Bricks Found
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:06:14 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Harold Poskanzer writes:
> A while ago, my wife came across a small bag of LEGO pieces that are
> unlike any others I've seen. They're about 3/4 size compared to
> regular bricks, and are in a variety of earth-tones: tan, brown,
> white, mustard, deep red. Most of them have the LEGO logo on the
> pips, but some have instead a single "M". In all other respects, they
> look just like normal LEGO.
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> Since she found them in an abandoned desk at SRI International, I'm
> tempted to suspect they're the result of a secret military
> matter-shrinking experiment. But I thought I'd check around to see if
> there's another possibility before I call the Weekly World News.
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> Has anybody seen these before?
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> Thanks,
> -H
Those are probably Modulex system bricks. That was a special system, smaller
but otherwise identical to the standard system. They came in a number of
unusual colors and were sold in the 60's. They were for architects to design
scale models of buildings. Someone had a bunch of them up on Ebay a year ago.
KL
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