 | | The Termination of LEGO production in the USA in 1973...
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1973 - the year LEGO Terminated the Samsonite USA LEGO License... For those folks who like looking at old LEGO catalogs... there's a big gap in the the American LEGO catalog lists... more like a 2 year gap. In 1970 TLG started legal action to revoke (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Termination of LEGO production in the USA in 1973...
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(...) I got to tour the Stratford plant in '84 or '85. The VP of sales, Jack e. Chessman, got a copy of my LEGO Wars movie and invited me over for a tour of the plant. Utterly fantastic! The plant, even though the licence was being revoked, was (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Termination of LEGO production in the USA in 1973...
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(...) Thanks for the info Dave! By the way, I was off by 1 year with Samsonite of Canada... it was 1986 that LEGO reverted back to TLG. Here's the story behind Samsonite of Canada returning the LEGO license to TLG. It was an entirely different story (...) (12 years ago, 9-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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