 | | LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
It started in 1957... when Axel Thomsen, a friend of Godtfred Kirk Christiansen who owned a doll house making factory in Lerum Sweden started making wooden box sets for LEGO sales in Sweden and Germany, the 2 countries that he was the LEGO Director (...) (12 years ago, 15-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: <snip> (...) As usual, your extensive knowledge of all things LEGO is overwhelming! I was very fortunate many years ago to acquire a LEGO wooden box on eBay from Italy--it's a service pack of parts from (...) (12 years ago, 15-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
(...) Dave, I'm familiar with that box! ;-) Starting around 1971 TLG started individual parts sales via the retailers (using unsold leftover wooden boxes) on some countries, and via Mail Order in others. Italy and Germany were 2 countries that sold (...) (12 years ago, 15-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
And then there are these early LEGO retailer wooden boxes (1950-58) that were used as Pick-A-Brick boxes in Denmark and Norway only.... (URL) are dicussed here (towards the bottom) in greater detail... (URL) Chapter 43 - Individual LEGO Parts Sales (...) (12 years ago, 17-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
(...) Wrong 2nd link... (URL) (12 years ago, 17-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
So Gary... Whilst at Valu Village, I picked up a red LEGO case. Turns out that it's set 356 Then I looked on LUGNET and there's no such set. What gives?? It's set 356, with 'bonus storage case', and it says it has 310 pcs. I think I remember seeing (...) (12 years ago, 24-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
(...) posted pics from the set-- (URL) that helps Dave K (12 years ago, 24-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
(...) Hi Dave! Thanks for posting this! Have I ever seen this set.... nope! Am I surprised you found it... nope! ;) NOTHING that TLG or Samsonite or British LEGO (Courtauld's Corp.) has done over the last 64 years has surprised me.... confounded (...) (12 years ago, 24-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: <snip> (...) No problem! So when I get this set at Value village and I want to research it, I go to LUGNET, Peeron, Briklink, etc and can't find it. My wife goes to Google. (URL) ummm.... Do you still need (...) (12 years ago, 24-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
|
|
(...) LOL... there's so many strange variants to basic sets in the 1980s that I can't even keep it straight. Recently found out that the 84 piece 533 basic set (1984), the 98 piece 517 basic set (1985), and the 119 piece 510 basic set (1987) are all (...) (12 years ago, 27-Jan-13, to lugnet.general)
|
