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Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part....
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:07:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bill Vollbrecht wrote:
> 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, but they are ALL bricks that have been in sets, and they are ALL regular
> Lego colors. The only difference being (albeit a big one) is they will have
> bricks produced in true Lego colors that they have not ever been made in those
> colors before. That, and they can make LOTS of them!
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?
> The misconception of the special red-orange color is one of MANY factual errors
> in the DK Ultimate Lego Book. It was pretty funny really. All of us in the
> modelshop own the book (and a few of my friends are in it). But we would go
> through it and find all sorts of mistakes. Great book, but the editor must of
> been asleep at his desk. Maybe there wasn't the great need for acuacy since most
> "regular" people wouldn't know the difference one way or the other!
So what other mistakes are in the book? It would be nice for someone to come up
with a "bloopers" list for the DK Ultimate Lego Book. :)
-Bryan
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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)
| | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part....
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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)
| | | Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part....
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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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| (...) 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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