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| | | I found a pristine, 100% complete 570 (fire station, flag stickers were unapplied except the American flag which is on the flag), 540 (Swiss villa) and 386 (basic set) at a garage sale this weekend. The boxes and pieces looked like I just bought the (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Rose Regner
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| | | | | r2 wrote in message ... (...) oops! the basic set is 125. The 386 is sitting here with the other boxes and I listed the wrong set. BTW the 125 still has the clear plastic cover sheet for the inside of the box. (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Gary Istok
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| | | | | (...) Rose, Funny you should mention that tree in the Swiss Villa. A few months ago, I saw in EBAY a complete Swiss Villa that had that same tree pine tree you described. I don't know why, but it appears that TLC changed tree styles at this time (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Ronald Vallenduuk
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| | | | | | | Phew, so I'm not the only neurotic who does that.... Duq "Gary Istok" <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:39FD9E8E.9D3248...ich.edu... (...) that (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Gary Istok
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| | | | | | | | No Duq, there are other neurotics out there. My LEGO Cathedral (still unfinished) has thousands of red 1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 1x6 and 1x8 bricks. Most of them were from my old cathedral which I built in 1986, but destroyed in 1996 to build the new one. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Steve Demlow
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| | | | | | (...) And thank goodness it didn't. It's very useful to be able to embed them in buildings, etc., but they would no longer be "invisible" if they had the bottom edge filleted like modern tiles. I wonder if the corporate model builders have any say (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Gary Istok
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| | | | | | (...) I have about 200 of the old style tiles (with no lip on the bottom) from a German collector (all white). And I am setting them aside for that "invisible" look (that Steve just described) in one of my new buildings. Gary Istok (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Mike Walsh
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| | | | "r2" <lego@r2eng.com> wrote in message news:G38ztK.IGp@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) compared (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I got one of these sets when I was a kid. It was a special set and it stayed in its own box. I can't remember if I got (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Rose Regner
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| | | | Mike Walsh wrote in message ... (...) The 540 set that I have is a US version from 1974. I really beleive that the pine tree came in the set, Mike got an egg tree and the box shows the old tree. Is this possible? (...) Is the egg tree stiff? The (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Mike Walsh
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| | | | | "r2" <lego@r2eng.com> wrote in message news:G39KC7.A6x@lugnet.com... (...) US (...) in (...) was (...) like (...) is (...) the (...) like (...) Taking a quick look at it to give a diffinitive answer - hmm ... the tree is not there either, must be (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Will Hess
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| | | | (...) like (...) I remember a hard plastic pine tree I once had. Once the newer flexible ones came out I never liked that one much...maybe because it was missing the bottom branches :-) Will (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Help with part ? from 540, also FOTW —Andy Lynch
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| | | | ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Hess" <willhess@simflex.com> (...) the (...) I have two of the old stiff plastic pine trees. One of mine is also missing it lower branches, due to being stepped on once. It was a long time ago, pre dark ages, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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