 | | The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Anders Isaksson
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| | | Hi all! Last time I was at the library I found an interesting book about The Lego Company! It's called 'LEGO and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen' (but in Swedish, of course). It is about GKC, LEGO A/S, and The LEGO Company. It's written by a Danish (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Gregor Benedikt Rochow
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| | | | | (...) I never heard of this before. So, in what ways was it 'bad'? (And, since Legoland would have to be a LG project, how could it be? If the subset of people that set it up did such a bad job, why was it not improved?) Sierksdorf is close enough (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | G. Benedikt Rochow skrev i meddelandet ... (...) pay (...) <snip> I don't know. The wording above was all that was mentioned. (...) No ;-) (...) Well, as it was written by a Dane, it's probably available in Danish :-) As a side note, I found it on a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Gary R. Istok
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| | | | | Ah ha!! ABS Plastic was introduced in 1963!!! The World of Lego Toys says 1961! I always thought that there was way too much Cellulose Acetate Lego around for the change to have taken place in 1961. And it said that the first sets with instructions (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | | | (...) be able to read it. (...) I've got a bunch of friends who are librarians, and I've asked them to check the OCLC listings to see if that book is in any library here in the US. Paul Sinasohn at last, useful for something! (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —John DiRienzo
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| | | | | | | | | Paul Sinasohn wrote in message ... (...) would (...) check (...) Paul, This is a little off-topic, but you can search the libraries yourself with a program called Bookwhere (www.bookwhere.com) which I have used to find some very rare books before. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | | | | | | Thanks, John!! (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Susan Hoover
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| | | | | | | | (...) to which Paul Sinasohn replied, somewhere down the thread: (...) Paul, IANALibrarian, but I have access to OCLC on the web through my local branch of the library. I checked WorldCat and found oodles of interesting stuff, but not this (...) (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.books)
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| | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | | Gary Istok skrev i meddelandet <37BAFA87.3BD2FB3D@u...ch.edu>... (...) always (...) change (...) Of course you cannot be _sure_ about the years given in the book (I pointed one discrepancy out). What the book says is that Cellulose Acetate stopped (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) Do you have a picture of one of these 50 x 50 roadplates? (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) If the one Gary is talking about is the same type as the one we have here, then imagine a regular modern 48x48 baseplate, except make it 50x50 instead. Suzanne has a picture on her website of one of these baseplates, although it's completely (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library) —Gary R. Istok
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| | | | | | (...) Here is an eBay picture (that's a switch, isn't it, of a LUGNET item referencing an eBay item) of one of the rare 50x50 plates with a roadway on it. I recently purchased it in eBay. Scroll down to the bottom of the eBay listing for the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library) —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) I'm really wondering when and where I've seen this plate in the stores. I know I have seen it in the stores, and it seems to me that I saw it more recently than 1972, in fact, I'd almost be sure of it. I know this is one of the items I looked (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library) —Gary R. Istok
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| | | | | | Frank, you never know what old stock you're gonna find in a Toy Store. 11 years after the London Bus (#760) came on the scene in 1975, I picked up a large quantity of them in 1986 at a suburban Detroit toy store chain. Ditto for the Lear Jet (#455). (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Linc Smith
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| | | | | Has anyone else come across this page before... (URL) we are talking history... kinda offers an alternative. I have no Idea if any of it is true, but it is a neat read, and a nice color scheme. LINC Hope it is not considered Blasphemy :-) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Jesse Long
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| | | | | | | Linc Smith <ldsmith@pfc.forestry.ca> wrote in message news:FGp0BL.GGs@lugnet.com... (...) Idea (...) Has anyone ever done a Ph.D. thesis on Lego? I'm kind of toying with the idea. Pop culture or something, but I could probably spin it sociology. I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Beth Reiten
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| | | | | | | | Here's the librarian piping up again: what exactly are you looking for? A keyword search through Digital Dissertations gives 34 theses/dissertations that use the word Lego. If we move it to Lego or Legos, we get 39. Most of these seem to be (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Allan Bedford
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| | | | | | | | Hello Beth, Beth Reiten <reitene_osu@ionet.net> wrote in article <37CC8CFB.B809ED24@i...et.net>... (...) A (...) theses/dissertations that (...) these (...) than (...) This stuff sounds very interesting. Where did you do this search? I'm not sure I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I've never seen it before, either. Where did you find it? It sounds very much like creative fiction, yet...who knows? In any case, I must say, you _truly_ are a linksmith! --Todd (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) newsserver), but within the last two years. The author of the webpage was looking for information and informing people about the website. Steve (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library —David Laswell
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| | | | (...) It's 1953 according to the 2002 LEGO Brand Book (given out in a 4-pack boxed set at Toy Fair 2002) (...) 1961, according to the 2002 LBB, though I'm curious as to how they released sets with instructions for building cars in 1955 without (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jul-03, to lugnet.general)
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