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Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:11:48 GMT
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It's again nothing weird, but slightly rare. Back in 1982 there was a
nationwide building contest to celebrate 25 years of Lego in the
Netherlands. I won first prize in the local first round, getting me into the
second round (where I totally s***** up: you only had two hours, and I'm a
slow over-ambitious builder) and a yellow jacket with a big '25 years of
Lego' logo on the back. I've used it a few times, but it's still pretty much
as new. I should really do a picture of me in the jacket. And dig up the
photo's of my prize winning entry.
From my dad's collection I own about a dozen clear 8x11x3 boxes with
matching 8x11 gray lid. At Legoworld this weekend I saw them in one of the
display cabinets in their original packaging. I remember a while back
someone wrote about these sets - was that Larry?
With those boxes came lots of red 2x2 plates, white 2x1 plates and clear 2x1
plates. Especially those clear ones are rare (to have 100+ anyway) although
by now they're useless. They're worn so badly they won't hold on
anything....
Anyway, that's my entry for the rarity show...
Duq
"Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message
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> Hi, everyone.
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> I was going through a few things here at my home in Michigan,
> and I ran across something odd that I'd forgotten about. It
> got me thinking: What kind of true oddities that have some
> connection to LEGO--themed items, promotional things, or other
> tie-ins that are bizarre--do people here have? There are
> easily enough hard-core, longtime collectors from around the
> world here to have some strange items from the early days of
> LEGO as well as some of the newer promotional items.
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> To kick this off, I'll share my only slightly odd item: a
> lightsaber handle from the Wal-Mart 1999 (IIRC) "lightsaber
> building" competition. It's a black plastic "handle" with
> a + shaped set of plates screwed into the top upon which to
> anchor a "blade." Apparently these were not supposed to be
> released by the stores, being promotional items, but I
> bought a clearance bucket and one was hiding in there.
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> What do all of you have? (John, your 1593 is unusual, but
> it doesn't count. ;) )
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> Eagerly awaiting tales of mystery and intrigue,
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> LFB
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| Ronald, I just posted an item about those sets in the Bricklink Forum 2 days ago!! Deja Vu!! Here it is! Cheers, Gary Istok ___...___ The #518-#521 come in an Architectural Sets (Hobby und Modelbau) of 1963-65 with the clear plastic boxes and the (...) (17 years ago, 3-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi, everyone. I was going through a few things here at my home in Michigan, and I ran across something odd that I'd forgotten about. It got me thinking: What kind of true oddities that have some connection to LEGO--themed items, promotional things, (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.general) !
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