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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Walsh [mailto:mike_walsh@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:55 AM
> To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com; lugnet.legoland.california@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
>
>
>
> "James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message
> news:G15MBJ.GLu@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> > > Hope I'm not stealing Steve Chuck's thunder, but I was browsing the Brickshelf
> > > Gallery and came upon this picture:
> > >
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=14552
> > >
> > > It was taken on a LEGO factory tour. It's a picture of a
> retired mold
> which
> > > makes 8 2x3 bricks. There is a little caption plate which said it made
> >
> > I'd take a stab that that is actually the "LEGO Factory
> Tour" in Funtown
> at
> > LLC. Or at least, it looks an awful lot like it. :) There is also a mold
> > machine pumping out 2x4 red bricks (at the time) and an
> assembly line
> machine
> > that made & took apart simple LEGO cars.
>
> I was at LEGOLAND California a week and a half ago and the
> factory tour
> equipment is still pumping out 2x4 red bricks, four or eight
> at a time.
> They also had a painting machine putting the LEGO logo on
> 1x4x3 yellow thin
> walls but it was unfortunately out of service.
Probably a stupid question...but which set would require these parts with
the logo? [or is a new set going to use it? ] After all, I can hardly see
them producing a large number of parts, printing on them, and then not using
them...
Just my $US 0.0108 [$Aus 0.02 at present :( ]
Benjamin Whytcross
BWhytcro@PacificAccess.com.au
Ph: (03) 9856 5282
Directory Technology Pty Ltd
1/436 Elgar Road,
Box Hill, 3128
Growing older is compulsory..Growing up isn't :-)
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