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Re: Help with Macaroni history
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Date: 
Fri, 8 Dec 2000 19:40:21 GMT
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Heh.

My entire collection began in about 1979.

~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego

From: Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu>
Organization: UofM
Newsgroups: lugnet.general
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 16:20:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Help with Macaroni history

You weren't into LEGO in the 1960's or early  1970's were you?  (Were you even
alive then!)  The parts pack #224 had them (there were packs in white, red,
blue, yellow, black and clear).  There were 20 in a box in the European
version,
33 in the USA/Canada Samsonite version.  But this was from 1957-65, with much
of
it made from Cellulose Acetate.  Later there was a parts pack that had a
combination of macaroni and 1x1 round bricks in the same pack with 2 colors
(red/white, blue/yellow, black/gray).  I have to check my late 60's early 70's
catalogs for the parts pack number, but it was in the 9xx range.  This is
probably the pack that Mike Walsh found in Spain.

Gary Istok



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You weren't into LEGO in the 1960's or early 1970's were you? (Were you even alive then!) The parts pack #224 had them (there were packs in white, red, blue, yellow, black and clear). There were 20 in a box in the European version, 33 in the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)

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