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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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"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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(...) 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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(...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 4-Feb-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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