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First off, I wanted to say thanks for the folks (in reply to my post about the rarest Lego set) that mentioned the rare and very valuable gold Bionicle mask. Jeeeeesse I wasn't going to even include Bionicles in my Lego document, but now it looks (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) :) Here's another reason not to avoid Bionicle... LEGO did a lot of work to create a "collectible" mentality for this product line. They started with the Kanohi masks, about 130-ish different ones total, including some rare ones like the (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I would say the Maersk Blue Construction Helmet is pretty rare, only one has sold on BL and that was for $100 - more than the white pigtail hair: (URL) would also think any Maersk Blue part that was not included in the container ship is pretty (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, even "regular part" and "common brick" is up for interpretation; normally I would not count the white hairpiece as a "regular" part. And I assume you would only mean bricks that has been sold in public, not bricks used as give-aways or (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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I dont know if this counts as rare or not but I have some 2 x 2 round tiles in clear... (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Gary, as you know there is a huge ammount of parts, which only appear in one set-number. But there is a regular part (and i think it's a "common brick"), which appears in only one unique Set: It is the red 1x2 tile with the four digit (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yes I knew there would be a lot of very rare printed items. And there are a lot of items only found in 1 set. With Lego, there are so many rare pieces, that it becomes nearly impossible to say what is the "rarest" part. However, here are two (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi Gary, sorry to hijack this topic, but I have a question out of couriosity. Do you in your CD also talk about never released prototype parts? Like the 12 spoked trainwheels and trainbase fronts (as seen in idea book 241). These parts, if they (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have a green 1x16 technic liftarm (thin) that has milling marks, so obviously a prototype. I know there are a few of these around, but not a large number. I'm pretty sure they were originally acquired at a LegoLand Windsor Red Letter Day. (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In the same batch that these were acquired (URL) further investigation has indicated that they were "concept" pieces William (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The Red Ghost Shroud has to be up there at number 1 (URL) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) When talking about the rarest Lego pieces, it kind of reminds me of something I red about the cathedrals of Europe and North America, namely "the number of cathedrals claiming to be one of the 6 largest in the world numbers at least 20". :-) (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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"Gary Istok" <istokg@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:I49JIE.9Ex@lugnet.com... (...) Excellent points Gary, but I think that a lot of items in number 2 aren't necessarily that rare in production quanity, ie some of the listed parts are produced (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Snip (...) end Snip What about the Dragon wand that was mentioned some time ago in the castle forum, if I recall correctly, there was someone supposed to be working for LEGO that claimed to have some kind of wand that was going to be used in (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi, have a look in the idea book 241 at brickshelf: (URL) I thing the trainbase front was created as a prototype for the developing of the trainbase for the sets 720 and 721 from 1969. Altough the book was first time in the german catalogue in (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) From page 110 of _The Ultimate LEGO(r) Book_: "Building the Golden Gate: A special dark orange shade of brick was used to match the color of the real bridge." (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It makes me wonder... with all of the new colors in the last while, why not just make that dark orange a standard production color? Best regards, Allan B. (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry to burst the bubble, but there was never a special red-orange color used (or exists) for the Golden Gate Bridge. It is in fact regular red. The Legoland modelshops do have lots of rare bricks that have never been available to the public, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) So I just want to clarify: 1) The PARTS in LEGOLAND Model shops have all appeared in sets before (so they don't have any 1x5 plates) 2) Some of these parts may be in colours that have NOT appeared in sets before. Correct? (...) So what other (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hello! (...) Items that go under (4) are probably the rarest of all as such items mostly accidentally leave the facturies, only in very small quantities. Speaking here of more elaborated parts like trees or minifigs etc., not the regular 2x4 brick (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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"Bryan Wong" <green_paper@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:I4CnKx.1Ey@lugnet.com... (...) Yep - the parks aren't able to have molds made up of parts that don't exist, it would be too expensive. Part of the marketing of miniland is that it is all (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, there are a lot of bricks we would of loved to have invented, but unfortunately it doesn't happen. All regular bricks are from the same molds that produce the bricks for sets. (...) Yes, correct again. All the colors are colors that are (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the info Bill! I'll make that task a little easier, and just go over the more obvious errors in the Lego Timeline on pages 12-23. Page 13: 1955 First Lego trees. Yes that may have been the year, but the trees shown are those from (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The most glaring one that I'm aware of is on page 15 where it states that plates (a.k.a. 1/3 elements) first appeared in 1962. Of course there were several sizes of plates available from the mid-1950's on. This set from circa 1958 had a series (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I realize why the parks use so many pieces in all those various colors. It makes for more realistic and therefore more interesting models. But I've often felt the claim that these models were built from bricks just like you can buy in stores (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Bill, here is annother theory for the red ghost and it sounds logical for me. First the facts: All 6 red ghosts were bought here in Berlin/Germany on a fleemarket in autumn 2000. They were from the same dealer, who has a lot of bags with (...) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yep. I'd personally consider only elements that have been released to the public as "officially rare". Otherwise you'll go nuts trying to track down promo and prototype pieces, as well as the daunting unreleased color-combo pieces. Hmm... I (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) A few more I noticed: p. 15 - Typo says "acrylnitrile butadiene styrene" instead of "acrylonitrile" p. 18 - "Ricky Bear - a 1980s character", the character shown is "Ricky Racoon" p. 22 - 2x2x2 clear slope is shown for 1995, when the last time (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) as in trans clear 45% 2x2? They have been released more recently than that. I got a bunch from somewhere, I think a Zellers exclusive set perhaps? (The red bucket set...4291) James Powell (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I believe it refers to this part: (URL) was last seen in clear in 1980 with the exception of the Main Street re-issue. (20 years ago, 26-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) snip (...) Looking at the photo cover of set 721 (URL) I see that not only the trainwheels and the trainbase were prototypes, but also the sliding wheel holders. And the power pickup was not available, either. It is not clear if there have (...) (20 years ago, 29-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Bill- One error we can attest to in the Ultimate LEGO Book is the picture of our son Thomas's 1992 LEGO World Cup model, which is presented reversed left-to-right. We figured it was for the convenience of the page layout. Funny, though, since (...) (20 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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