 | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Niels Karsdorp
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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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| | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Ross Crawford
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —William Howard
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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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| | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —William Howard
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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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| | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Gerhard R. Istok
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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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| | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Richard Morton
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Ken Bailey
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Ronald Borchert
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Thomas Garrison
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Allan Bedford
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Bill Vollbrecht
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Bryan Wong
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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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| | | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Richard Morton
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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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| | | | | | | | | | | Miniland Models (Was: Rarest Regular Lego Part....) —Allan Bedford
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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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| | | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Bill Vollbrecht
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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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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Gerhard R. Istok
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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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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —David Eaton
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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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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —James Powell
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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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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Jonathan Wilson
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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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| | | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Allan Bedford
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Ronald Borchert
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Ted Michon
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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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| | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Johannes Koehler
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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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| | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —David Eaton
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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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| | | | | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part.... —Niels Karsdorp
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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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