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Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library)
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:00:04 GMT
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1940 times
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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). And in
Europe, you can find stuff that's sometimes over 20 years old, especially in family
owned toy stores in smaller obscure towns and villages.
I have the 1970 US Samsonite LEGO Dealer Catalog, which does contain this plate (listed
as a "new" 1970 item), and the 1973 US TLG LEGO Catalog, which does not contain the
plate.
Gary Istok
Frank Filz wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Check it out:
> >
> > http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=127034166
> >
> > 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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