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Re: Old Lego colors
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Fri, 14 May 1999 06:49:23 GMT
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Kevin Wilson <70641.507@compuserve.com> wrote in message
<373A3D5F.B68B7A79@compuserve.com>...
> Gary's question about the red stripe reminded me of something. Take a
> look at those pics of the old sets: note the preponderance of red and
> white, and then yellow. My memories of my childhood lego in the
> 60's/early 70's are that the blue bricks we had were *special*, rare,
> and newer than the rest and even more so the black ones. Did Lego
> originally start with just red and white, or red/white/yellow, and add
> blue and black later?
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> Kevin
My first set was a 1968 Universal set (033 - not in lugnet database yet)
given to me in 1975 or 1976. Since it was my only set till 1979, I'm
strongly remembering that it has mainly consisting of red and white, a small
number of yellows (only a few 2x4's, 2x2's and 1x2's, in the order of 4-6
pieces each), and very few numbers of black (2-4 of 1x2's and 4-6 of 2x2's)
and blue (6 of 2x4's). It's clear piece count is even more than back/blue
bricks. Only brick that is not having the 5 basic colors (+clear) is the
gray 10x20 basebrick. Maybe specific to this sets, but plates were a rare
thing, too. This set has only a 4x8 and two 2x8 plates at all.
Selçuk
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| (...) I think that's right. My old lego had no colored plates of any size, but we did have white plates (with square holes underneath) in 4x8, 6x8 (just one) and 2x8. There were also some 4x8 with curved corners. I used to think there were smaller (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) One thing that we need to remember was that in the late 50's and thru much of the 60's LEGO consisted mainly of TOWN sets . And in both Europe and USA/Canada (Samsonite) TOWN consisted of the Town Plan system. The (Samsonite) Town Plan set (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Gary's question about the red stripe reminded me of something. Take a look at those pics of the old sets: note the preponderance of red and white, and then yellow. My memories of my childhood lego in the 60's/early 70's are that the blue bricks we (...) (26 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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