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Re: ??? Why the ‘Rainbow Bar’ ???
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:54:30 GMT
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Richard,
The earliest I could find this logo was 1964's European Taxie.
At that time, the five colors were the only ones available in bricks (the
history of green & grey plates & bricks is in a different thread). Lego kept
the logo even after they added more colors. There is also a flag with that
five-bar logo 3596p01.
It appears to have lasted into early 1978 (Wedding). The "new"
1978/1979 yellow boxes don't seem to have it.
Clark
In lugnet.general, Richard Noeckel writes:
> Why the ‘Rainbow Bar?’
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> I remember seeing this when I was little. Some Lego sets from the 60’s and
> late 70’s had a ‘five color-bar box’ right next to the TLC logo.
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| Good answer Clark! You are correct. The original Lego sets from the late 50's had blue borders with lots of yellow background in the picture on the box, and "LEGO System in Play" in lots of different languages. From 1960-65 (or thereabouts) the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | ??? Why the ‘Rainbow Bar’ ???
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| Why the ‘Rainbow Bar?’ I remember seeing this when I was little. Some Lego sets from the 60’s and late 70’s had a ‘five color-bar box’ right next to the TLC logo. In Set Reference, under set number 139 (and a few others) you can see the five (...) (23 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)
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