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In lugnet.general, Jim Hughes wrote: <SNIP> (...) Minor correction...it's spelt Sydney, not Sidney :) I'll also try and have a look through my old catalogues this weekend and see what addresses they give for Lego Australia over the years...I think (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Jim, thank you for this LEGO Internationalization history compilation I'm sorry for this correction as I can not bring all the missing informations. LEGO S.A. 16, rue Edmond Poillot Boite Postale 837 F-28011 Chartres Cédex Tel. +33 2 37 91 (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.general)
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There is an often repeated Line In Wiencek's World of Lego Toys that during the depression Ole went door to door selling his toys, often trading them for food. But this is apocryphal, even in the 1930's Lego did not sell toys to individuals, but (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: A quick LEGO History
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(...) This makes me wonder whether the design of the 2x2 round tile is a vestige of the "X" bottom design, or if it came about some other way. It certainly enhances the usefulness of those tiles. And, thank you Gary for your enlightening posts; I (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I would be interested in the result, Rob. Just for your information: CA has a much higher material damping coefficient in comparison to ABS. So CA will make less noise and sound very dump when it hits the ground. Especially for the classical (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That's an experiment that I will have to try when my collection is closer at hand :) -Rob A> (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hi Rob, thanks for your feedback! In that case I would think these are US-made bricks, since the LEGO-logo on top of the bricks is of the old design. This has been used within Europe (= Billund made bricks) only in combination with CA-bricks (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I wouldn't assume that 1965 was necessarily as good as, say, 1990. But you're right insofar as quality from the 60's and 70's is not necessarily the same quality as the 80's and 90's. If someone's really looking for proof or disproof of (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Not sure how you come up with that conclusion. These bricks are from my old sets, purchased in Canada between 1973-1978. I am suspecting these specific bricks came from set 256-1 released in 1976. I would doubt that ir contained 10 year old (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Not suer how you come up wit that conclusion. These bricks are from my old sets, purchased in Canada between 1973-1978. I am suspecting these specific bricks came from set 256-1 released in 1976. I would doubt that these were 10 year old (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) snip (...) snip (...) Hi all! I know this thread is really old, but eventually I came across this discussion while uploading a few more new quality issue pictures ast brickshelf: (URL) new pictures of 2007 building session> So I just wanted to (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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Happy New Year! We had warm discussions about a new homepage for LUGNET last year, and I would like to show the next provisional result, draft #8: (URL) reference, please see also: Initial post by Todd: (URL) by Tim: (URL) discussion: (URL) (latest (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions) !
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| | Re: Brickfetish - new version
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(...) up the great work! PS. I noticed you have labeled the USA scans from 1966 as set 703. They should actually be for 704 "master discovery set". See (URL) for an example. Eric (18 years ago, 1-Jan-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) resource for the community! Allan B. (18 years ago, 31-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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Hi: To end the year I have just uploaded a completely new version of my Lego history site, Brick Fetish. The timeline now spans from 1891-1968. Even the older sections have been, in many cases, completely rewritten. The purpose of the project is to (...) (18 years ago, 31-Dec-06, to lugnet.general) !
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| | Re: LEGO CD - Unique Lego Parts By Country List
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In the next week or so I will be coming up with a list for the LEGO CD folks that contains all the unique LEGO parts by country/region. What this means is that many LEGO items from 1949-80 were not sold in all locations. There were some items that (...) (18 years ago, 30-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: OMG, articulated skeleton arms?!!
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(...) Since when does most of what LEGO does make any sense?? I gave up trying to make sense out of what they do many years ago. [1] (...) I consider the new skelton to be an IMPROVEMENT. The old floppy, fall-off skelton arms were not very good. (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ahh, good point. (...) Another good point. So, they retire the old arm mold and create a new one, reuse the droid arm and things come out more or less even. And that's with added playability. Sounds like a good business plan to me. (...) As (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Words to live by. Tim (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Except in this case, they'd be creating a new mold for the skeleton torso. If I remember correctly, the current skeleton torso has ball for the shoulder to fit the socket of the arm, where the one pictured appears to have a bar attachment for (...) (18 years ago, 29-Dec-06, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.town, FTX)
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