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(...) It only took five years to find out, but the toy was called Schleich S-Point. For example: (URL) (17 years ago, 23-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Charging for the parts is a pretty straight-forward thing. Charging for the time invested is pretty straight-forward as well. Like you said, it's the intangibles that are the hard part. What I have found is that the price of a LEGO work is (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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I've got to admit being slightly lost & stunned on this one, and would appreciate any advice from people who have done this before. Recently I've had someone ask to commission a copy of one of my models, and i'm trying to figure out how the heck (...) (17 years ago, 20-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes most of the 1970-76 European style gear sets (#800, #801, #802, #810, #811, #812, #813 and #814) had mainly those milky white axles. The metal ones that came in a few of these sets was for use with LEGO motors. Cheers, Gary Istok (17 years ago, 18-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think those were just to allow the pre-Technic cog wheels to work on the old motors (4.5 and 12V) which could only turn the round (also metal) axles of the old red LEGO wheels. Later motors had a special bearing for cross axles and worked (...) (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, they did. . . (URL) know nothing about pre-Technic gears, especially European pre-Technic gears, so I don't know if these parts were used as cross axles or, as may be the case, cross axle-to-"freely spinning axle" adapters. (17 years ago, 15-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I remember Travis Kunce tried it once with one of his amusement park rides, and it seemed to work pretty well: (URL) course, it's just a matter of time before the cogs on your gears or the fittings for the axles become too stressed to handle (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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Hi folks. I love to build semi-functional scale models of various vehicles out of LEGO. In my never ending effort to make my models look like the real things, I have had to constantly scale up my productions. I am beginning to hit a barrier now, (...) (17 years ago, 12-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I would imagine that the "Lego Imports Goldman Morgan" company vanished before Lego was ever aware of them or defensive about their logo. From what I can see, LIGM was around mostly in the 60's or so (though I see one collectors plate from (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Just trying to get to the bottom of a mystery, Jan :) Thanks for the link As we all know, the LEGO logo in current use isn't the one that they started with. As late as '72, the company was using this logo-- (URL) Many years ago I saw a (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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did they? this lego logo is not the lego logo. (URL) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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G'day all, Just a heads-up that in Feb 2008 (Aus/NZ...probably earlier elsewhere) LEGO will be releasing the above mentioned set. I have scanned the page and set from the 2008 Aus catalogue and they are available to view at: (URL) scanned from new (...) (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the info, Jan! How was this company able to use the LEGO logo (circa 1950's to 60's) on their products? Dave K (17 years ago, 10-Dec-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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This has nothing to do with the Danish Toy Factory. Lego Imports-Goldman Morgan Lego Imports-Goldman Morgan's name represents a fusion of the first and last name of the company's president: Leo Goldman. Based in New York, the manufacturer is known (...) (17 years ago, 9-Dec-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Merry Christmas all! (URL) So this might not look immediately like LEGO, but the bottom says it is (URL) I've been wondering if anyone has any more information on the history of LEGO Japan (looking Gary's way :) ) and if there's an 'inventory' of (...) (17 years ago, 9-Dec-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) That graph is pretty close for me as well... I've spent the last few nights (amongst doing other things) putting together the space sets from my youth--last night I started in on the 'Space Police 1' sets--this after I put together the (...) (17 years ago, 7-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, C. L. GunningCook wrote: <snip> (...) And you'll always get 'em, too Dave (17 years ago, 7-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Dave, you are one of the geekiest people I "know", and I mean that in the most flattering way! [JOHN] (17 years ago, 7-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Snipped Daves buying frenzies... (...) I rarely buy used Lego anymore, mostly because I still have way too much that is unsorted currently in my collection. Most of the used pieces I did buy came from lots on ebay, some of them were worth way (...) (17 years ago, 7-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm somewhere between these two, I guess (not that this ever seems to happen to me). I look to see what's in there first before getting excited. Used lego from 2002 (say) doesn't really excite me that much. Considering that most people's (...) (17 years ago, 6-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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