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Re: Finding Lego
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 3 Aug 2001 00:06:46 GMT
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Greg Majewski <citrusx__@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't mean in a weird spot in your house or in your local toy store.. Have
> you ever found Lego lying around in other places?
Oh yeah:
- My wife spotted a very trashed minifig head (classic smiley) jammed into
a drainage grate in Frankfurt's (Germany) central shopping area. I lugged
it back to the USA and tossed it in with the rest of my damaged parts.
- My wife found a complete minifig outside at the St. Paul campus of the
University of Minnesota when she was a grad student there.
- The weirdest yet: while helping remodel my church's parsonage, I found
two 1960s-era (pre-ABS) 2x4 red bricks that had been used as a spacer
between a curtain rod bracket and a shelf sitting on the bracket. Several
sides had been painted but the two bricks still snap together snugly some
40+ years later.
- And, since Tim mentioned clone bricks, my wife found a Megablock brick
stuck to the giant Lego birthday cake that travelled with the yellow truck
tour a few years ago. We pointed it out to the teenaged Lego employee
who looked confused but finally removed it. I think she thought I was
weird. :)
This post would be more aptly titled, "My wife finding Lego". :)
Steve
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| I don't mean in a weird spot in your house or in your local toy store.. Have you ever found Lego lying around in other places? The other day at work I found a red 1x1 brick in a flower bed. I have also found a neon green 1x1 cone at the pool where (...) (23 years ago, 2-Aug-01, to lugnet.general)
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