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Re: Question for Gary Istok
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:16:46 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Eric Strand wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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> > The USA appears to have been used as a test ground for new products... such as
> > Jumbo/Pre-School bricks. These Jumbo bricks were not sold elsewhere. Even
> > though they were sold in the USA until 1972, the real Duplo brick was introduced
> > in continental Europe in 1969. By 1975 the real Duplo brick was sold
> > everywhere. And as we know, the real Duplo bricks are compatible with all Lego
> > bricks, unlike the Jumbo bricks.
<snip>
> The LUGNET set entries should not be under the Samsonite category. 501 and 503
> were not Samsonite USA sets.
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> Eric
I've changed the Theme settings to LEGO / {PreSchool} on these, and added photos
for 502 and 503
-- joshua
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| (...) Gary, There is a slight chance that these jumbo bricks made it into the Europe market for a short time. There is also a chance these are just prototypes and were never sold. (URL) The 501 shown here (in the LEGO Billund archive) is in a Europe (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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