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Re: The Dark Ages of Lego in the USA
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:07:53 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> in the 1972 Samsonite catalog. By 1972 TLG revoked the license of Samsonite,
> and set up shop in Connecticut. In Loveland Colorado, a 50,000 square foot
> Samsonite Lego plant (relatively new, since it opened in April 1965) suddenly
> went idle. But not before it cranked out the last of the ABS plastic pellets
> (in inventory) into some super huge Lego sets (800-1251 pieces), and sold them
> to department stores for catalog sales. These catalog sales Samsonite sets were
> still in inventory as late as August 1973, a year after the Loveland CO. plant
> ceased producing Lego elements.
There are several old advertisement and catalog scans available for viewing
here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=101616
The 1972 JCPenney catalog scan by David Shifflett is notable for the 1252 piece
"bulk" set which Gary talks about.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=951731
Most of these mail-order sets were not featured in the official Lego catalogs
and the later sets usually arrived in plain brown shipping boxes.
For comparison, the USA Samsonite catalogs are all available for viewing here:
http://home.comcast.net/~strandee/
Enjoy,
Eric
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 | | The Dark Ages of Lego in the USA
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| Just like many AFOL's/ALE's, USA Lego went thru the dark ages. Interestingly enough, it was around the same time I went thru my own dark ages. The years were the 1970's. In the beginning of the 1970's USA Lego sales were licensed to the Samsonite (...) (19 years ago, 30-May-05, to lugnet.general) !!
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