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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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| | Re: lego headquaters in enfeild conneticuit
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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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(...) check this : (URL) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: First Ever Juniorized Lego Part?
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(...) I don't have that part, and I just looked at it in Peeron. I didn't see the hole in the middle the first time. My bad. (...) I just found out from Phil Traviss that in Britain they made a few of these 4x8 curved plates with the missing notch (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) So, I guess you would say that a brick like "Plate 2x2 corner" (URL) not juniorized, as even if it could be made out of 1x1 and 2x1 plates it would not keep the structural strenght whereas its bigger and older counterpart "4x4 L brick" (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) A few recent ones: BNSF, Santa Fe, Super Chief and TTX. ROSCO (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey Dave.... I'm surprised you didn't think of them..... Esso, Shell, Exxon, VW (named beams), and then there are all the 1:87 cars/trucks. Is Octan a real service station? I have never seen one here or in Europe (Germany, Austria, Britain, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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Even if you exclude the movie and TV licenses (Star Wars, Bob The Builder etc), there are still many: Shell (there are many shell sets) Mcdonalds (the Mcdonalds Drive Thru set) Exxon (more gas station sets) Many licenced/labeled promotional sets (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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Is there any sets where Lego has included references to other trademarked names. One example I can think is Jeep, for the 711 Jeep CJ-5 set. Are the ferries (Stena, Silja), and Maersk, names copyright/trademarks? Any others? Keep on bricking, dave (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Gary, My 398 box does not say "Universal Building Set". It is different from the other sets/boxes in a few ways. 1. The other sets came with an inner box that was supposed to be turned upside down to use as a display stand. The 398 doesn't (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree with Anders, what parts were you thinking about that were 'juniorized' to make this part. (...) Slight problem here Anders, the 4x4 with rounded corner didn't exist until 40 years after the Wing 4x8 Wow 40 years, that's a really long (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) But Iain, there must be good things about Canada too.... I mean, we know clean air is a farse, and not enough murder isnt good for the population control.... Gee, there must be something..... oh wait, we do have crappy tire money and no (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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