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Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library)
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Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:21:47 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:
> 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
> picture. Note: it is to the right of a 50x50 grey plate. The green giant road
> plates did not have any roadway markings on them, unlike the later 32x32
> roadplates. Like I stated earlier, this was first introduced by Samsonite Lego in
> 1970 for only one or two years. I have not yet found this in any European
> catalog. But I cannot confirm if it was a Samsonite only product.
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> Check it out:
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> http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=127034166
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> Gary Istok
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 at during my dark ages (which were not
pitch black - I observed all the neat Lego I was missing all through my
dark ages) and I remember thinking: "Gee, that would have been nice to
have had as a kid.". I know I was not in my dark ages as late as 1972
because we came home from our trip to Europe that year with a few Lego
sets (I'm pretty sure one was a fire truck the odd thing is that it
seems more likely we had
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=658-1 which is a 1974 set
rather than http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=640-1 or
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=374-2, so maybe we didn't get
the fire truck in Europe).
Part of me wants to say that I saw that base plate in TRU here in North
Carolina, but that is an almost impossibility since I didn't move down
here until 1990 (unless it was real old stock sitting in the Raleigh
TRU, the Cary TRU post dates my move down here).
--
Frank Filz
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