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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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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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(...) The 1980 Japanese catalog showing the basic sets produced that year shows the very unusual (and very rare) 1902 set (from my DVD/download chapter on LEGO catalogs)... (URL) Istok (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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Another unknown LEGO set... this #1902 Japanese set of 1978-80. What should TLG do with all those early 1980s unusual Minitalia (Italian pseudo-LEGO) window and door molds and non-ABS plastic that they had leftover once LEGO sales were allowed back (...) (12 years ago, 8-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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With no response from the Klendathu outpost for months, the patrolling Galaxy Squad has decided to determine the cause for so long a silence from the important border-lying outpost. A full regiment has been assigned to inspect the site but an (...) (12 years ago, 7-Jan-13, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, FTX)
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LEGO® ROBOTS BEGIN WORLDWIDE MARCH: NEW SMARTER, STRONGER LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 UNVEILED AT CES Robotics Pioneer Releases More Accessible yet More "Hackable" Platform in 15th Anniversary Year of the Original Smart Toy Includes First& Ever Native (...) (12 years ago, 7-Jan-13, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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I love playing LEGO Sherlock Holmes... And I came across another thing that the folks in Billund don't seem to recall (in their archive records)... The only time TLG ever made a Church set was from November 1957 until 1962. And a LEGO lighting (...) (12 years ago, 7-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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Here's another unknown set... this one from 1986, and produced for Japan... (URL) checked with the Billund Archives folks... they have no records of this set either... so they're contacting the Japanese sales subsidiary to ask why that is?? Another (...) (12 years ago, 3-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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Well... another new (old) unknown set to add to the next version of the DVD/download (free to current owners).... This previously unknown circa 1966 Department Store Exclusive Set #93. (URL) found in any online database.... The origins are still a (...) (12 years ago, 2-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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Oppss... forgot one image in the LEGO DVD/download chapter on windows/doors... Tall classic windows... only ever sold in... Denmark... red, white, blue, dark blue. Sweden.... red, white, blue, yellow, orange. Norway.... red, white, blue, green. (...) (12 years ago, 2-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks Dave, The nice thing is that from now on my CD/DVDs will be only as a download (only will take 5-15 minutes to download 688MB from the cloud)... AND the best part is that all future editions will be free to current DVD/download (...) (12 years ago, 2-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Anders Isaksson wrote: <snip> (...) I have a very old CD copy as well--time to throw some cash in the general direction of our favourite LEGO historian and get the latest and greatest!! Dave K (12 years ago, 31-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK, two of my three bricks are like that (red and yellow)... (...) ...and the white one is like that. So the 'Danish story' is not completely true, but the bricks are at least very old. Thansk for the history lessons, Gary! (...) I think it's (...) (12 years ago, 31-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Anders, those 1949 era bricks (only 2x2 and 2x4 would have been made that year)... did not have any LEGO identification on them. From 1949-52 there was no LEGO logo on the studs, and none on the underside. From 1952-55 there was no LEGO logo (...) (12 years ago, 30-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 79100 Kraang Lab Escape
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Stuck in a cell with my ‘chucks just out of reach and wondering just what it’ll take to get out of here (‘cause I’m sure the guys don’t even know I’m here). ‘Stuck’ that is until that Foot bozo made his first mistake calling for takeout! Popeye has (...) (12 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Withered, but not dead yet! (not if we have anything to say about it!!) I'm feeling better--think i'll go for a walk!! (...) Whither--every time I see that word it reminds me of one thing--the final chapter of 'Making of Star Trek'--published (...) (12 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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A LEGO Arducoptor: (URL) (12 years ago, 27-Dec-12, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)
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(...) I have in my possession three bricks (2 x 4, slotted) with the following description from the Danish gentleman that sent them to me: "These come from a set we bought to our daughter in 1949 directly from Lego as they were not available yet in (...) (12 years ago, 27-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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I had always been looking for the very first 1949 LEGO sets with plastic bricks, but the closest I ever got to was circa 1950... a year after the 1949 introduction of the LEGO brick (known as Automatic Binding Bricks until 1953). My German collector (...) (12 years ago, 26-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) "Wither" I think? Whither LUGNet??? Oh, it withered. But ya, it's been a very long time... we were all younger then. (12 years ago, 22-Dec-12, to lugnet.general)
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