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Re: Lego part available again after 27 years?
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Thu, 10 Jun 2004 08:07:03 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> Like many of you I have purchased a few of the new Harry Potter sets.
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> There is a new one out called "Shrieking Shack" #4756, which appears to have (4)
> 2x2 inside corner regular sloped bricks in white! This piece has not been seen
> in 27 years, since the Rescue Helicopter set (#770 in USA/#386 in Europe and
> Canada) which came out in 1976-77. That set had 2 of them. If these are truly
> white inside corner slopes, then that would be great! Since I have only seen
> the #4756 set in a catalog, I am assuming that the roof slopes are white.
Also two of these double concave (or inside corner) slopes in white have
appeared in the 1981 set 6927 All-Terrain Vehicle. (I only have two of those
slopes in white from the 386 rescue helicopter set you mentioned. And a third
from another very incomplete 386 from a box of 2nd hand lego. I found only 3 or
4 parts from this set in the box, including a 2x8 brick with L-386 sticker)
> Anyway getting back to what appears to be (4) 2x2 regular sloped inside corner
> bricks in white (!), I think it would be great if TLG came out with an old parts
> pack, but in some new colors. That set would be #283 (misc. roof bricks) which
> was produced 1957-65 (in Britain the same set #483 continued production
> 1966-72). These #283/#483 parts packs were only produced in either red or blue,
> and had these contents:
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> (10) - 2x2 outside corner sloped bricks.
> (5) - 2x2 inside corner sloped bricks.
> (3) - 1x2 half pyramid bricks.
> (1) - 2x2 gable connector (the slope that looks like someone bit off part).
> (1) - 2x2 roof peak (but with a "L" roof ridge instead of the "I" roof ridge
> that we are familiar with). This piece has been discontinued since 1972. (I am
> only mentioning this piece because it was part of the set, not because I want it
> reissued.)
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> Wouldn't this be a nice set to have in white, blue, yellow, gray, as well as the
> more common red and black.
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> Just dreamin'
Except for the L-shaped roof peak, all of these parts are still in production.
L-shaped roof peaks can be created using a pyramid and a gable connector.
Some of these roofs are even produced in new colors like orange, sandgreen or
tan (the half pyramids even in mdstone aka bley). So it would not be a problem
to reproduce a roofpack like this.
I like to have a roofpack like this, too.
Niels
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| (...) Thanks! I relly like that description a lot better. Now that I changed it in my local parts library, I think I will find them much faster next time I need them. Oh, sorry for interrupting your discussion. Keep on where you were. :) /Tore (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.general)
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