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In lugnet.general, Patrick McFarland wrote: (snip) (...) Patrick, the transcript is a good idea, so I'll get that figured out. And BrickJournal was challenging, but it was a really good challenge once things got started. For me it was amazing (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: First Ever Juniorized Lego Part?
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"D. Shifflett" <shifflett@redshift.com> wrote in message news:IJI1ux.63s@lugnet.com... (...) Some of the "juniorized" parts are also done for various structural reasons. I'd also point out that the BURP can not be made of other parts. There are (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ironically the very first trademarked items came out 50 years ago this year. That would be the Esso Service Station accessories. In 1955, with the advent of the Town Plan TLG produced 3 Esso trucks (#1250/#250 Esso Barrel Tanker, #1251/#251 (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wow, a quick list of companies, and some sample sets where I could find them. plus other stuff that people have mentioned from this thread: Adidas (3426) Air Canada (611) ANA (All Nippon Airways) (3197) ANWB (1590) Audi (unnumbered promo) (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) go? Back to 1972 when TLG first moved to Connecticut to start up a company owned operation in the USA, or back to 1961.... when Samsonite first got a Lego license from TLG and set up Lego shops in Colorado and Ontario to sell Lego to the USA (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) At this point, there's no public component... just some marketing offices, some warehouses, and some packing facilities. That said, there's been discussion about creating something public for a while now. Not sure what the latest plan is, but (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I seem to remember the 1998 World Cup football/soccer sets had a sticker sheet with a number of real-world brand logos. I don't clearly remember what any of these were, I'll have to dig out the sheet. They definitely had jersey stickers for (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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I have a question for everyone out there. Is there any sort of store or museum or something at the lego shipping center in enfeild conneticuit or is it just a building with no access to the public? thanks -flip- (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) LEGO has made a lot of promotional stuff for other companies, like the Falck and BRF minifigs, but these are single items. If you are talking sets, there's indeed the Scandinavian companies you mentioned (Maersk, Silja, Stena), and more like (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) In the Netherlands there were also named beams for Philips and P.T.T. (post, telegraph and telephone) and KLM (royal dutch airlines). (...) I think Octan is non existing. It's a Lego name. (...) With additional stickers for other European (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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