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Re: LEGO Errors
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:20:45 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> I was looking at a few old Lego catalogs, and I came across some errors that
> were made 25-30 years ago. Here's 2 examples....
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> Error #1) the 1977 German catalog....
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> http://horst-lehner.mausnet.de/lego/katalog/gk77/index.htm
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> It is a nice 16 page catalog... but there is something missing.... 19 sets that
> were produced in 1977, but did not make it to the catalog....
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> Basic Sets: #10, #20, #30, #40, #50.
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> Homemaker/Sets with People Sets: #210, #213, #215, #254, #256, #258, #263, #277,
> #296.
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> Pre-School (Duplo) Sets: #522, #523, #524, #531, #536.
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> Later in 1977 a small mini-catalog with all these sets in it was produced. That
> these sets were not in the big catalog shows that somebody goofed! Maybe the
> missing Homemaker sets and Pre-School sets was a minor overlook.... but you
> don't forget to put in the 5 major basic sets!!!
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> Error #2) the 1983 Canadian Samsonite Catalog...
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> That catalog shows some small blister packs of minifig sets. Among them are
> #6001 (4 Castle Knight's minifigs) and #6002 (4 Town Minifigs).
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> Well as it turned out, both the Castle Knight's and Town Minifigs came out with
> the same blister pack numbers.... #6002, and at the same time (1983)!!!!! No
> one has ever seen a #6001 Castle Knight's blister pack! (except in the catalog.)
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> There are other errors out there.....
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> Gary Istok
The most obvious one I can remember was the 1977 UK Catalogue said 67 on the
front instead!
Phil
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| (...) Wow Phil, that one is hard to top! (Phil and I talk frequently over Lego "anomalies", things that are not quite as one would expect them.) My favorite British error (I got this one from Phil several years ago), which is not really an error... (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| I was looking at a few old Lego catalogs, and I came across some errors that were made 25-30 years ago. Here's 2 examples.... Error #1) the 1977 German catalog.... (URL) is a nice 16 page catalog... but there is something missing.... 19 sets that (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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