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Re: Trivia: The First Junior Brick?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:01:06 GMT
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The 1x2x5 columns would fit this criteria. I would have to check when they
first showed up in Fire or Police stations.
Rose
Mr L F Braun wrote in message ...
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> Hi all,
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> Today I received a package from Sonnich Jensen in Estonia
> (Thanks Sonnich!) containing four of the Classic Space
> trans-dk-blue 6x5x2 inverse 33 1/3 slope "buckets". I love
> these pieces, but it got me thinking: they're borderline
> POOPs in that one could build the same form from standard
> bricks, albeit not one of the same appearance. So I have
> a question for the masses to which I don't know the answer:
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> Does anyone know when the first POOPs (Piece [that can be
> made] Of Other Pieces) appeared in a LEGO set? What were
> they? And were the pseudo-POOPs (like the inverse buckets
> above) that require their POOP nature to perform a function
> really the first step towards the Juniorization we love to
> hate?
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> Fire away, LEGO historians!
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> best,
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> Lindsay
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| (...) [ Heavy snipage ] (...) [ More snipage ] (...) Well, I'm no Lego historian, nor do I play one on TV. But, wasn't the 2x4 brick one of the first pieces produced? Technically, its a POOP since it can be made from two 2x2 bricks. And of course, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Trivia: The First Junior Brick?
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| (...) The 1x6x5 bricks are quite old, as early as 1978. See the printed bricks in 493 and 6970. Seen in this page of the 493 instructions: (URL) in this page of the 6970 instructions: (URL) a proud owner of both of these bricks, I for one am glad (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | Trivia: The First Junior Brick?
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| Hi all, Today I received a package from Sonnich Jensen in Estonia (Thanks Sonnich!) containing four of the Classic Space trans-dk-blue 6x5x2 inverse 33 1/3 slope "buckets". I love these pieces, but it got me thinking: they're borderline POOPs in (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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