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Re: Ancient Lego Windows
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:33:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Eric Strand wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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However, what the winner of this expensive EBAY auction doesn’t know is that
these are not the original windows/doors to this set. In 1954, TLG came out
with a 2nd variety of windows/doors that are the forerunners of the classic
Lego windows (1957-87), and pretty much look exactly like the classic Lego
windows/doors, only taller. These early classic style windows were 1 brick
taller and had no studs on top, only “handles” in the side of the
windows/door that allowed them to be attached to the slotted Lego bricks of
the era (1949-56). These windows are NOT compatible with Lego today.
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Here is a 1x6x4 window along with an excerpt from the 1953-54 Danish
catalog showing the piece.
Eric
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Note also in Eric’s catalog diagram there are 3 other classic tall windows, a
1x3x3 (it looks like a 1x2x2), a 1x6x3 with shutters (the catalog incorrectly
shows the shutters as unpainted, in this instance they are red) and also a 1x6x3
3 pane window.
This will probably be the first time most AFOLs have ever seen these windows.
Like I mentioned before, they are not compatible with Lego today, unless of
course you cut off the clips on the side of the windows (not seen in these
pictures), and somehow secured them within a Lego brick frame.
Also, these very rare windows/doors came in red and white. BUT they also came
in blue, which are much rarer than the red and white ones. By 1957, when the
classic Lego windows/doors we know today came out, the only window/door colors
available in Lego were red and white. This held true until 1966 when the first
classic yellow windows/doors came out in the #325 Shell Station. But red and
blue remained the dominant windows/door colors until their retirement in 1987
(all except the 1x2x2 windows were retired by 1987).
Today the only classic Lego window still in production is the 1x2x2. And do you
know the main reason why they too weren’t retired? The answer is one word:
Legoland. They needed these because they are used in abundance in the Miniland
models at the Legoland Parks.
Gary Istok
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