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Re: 10x20 green baseplates
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:44:47 GMT
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Gary Istok (gistok@umich.edu) wrote:
: Hmmm, Let's see, I have sets 148 (Central Train Station) and 149 (Shell
: Refinery). They both came out in 1975, and both have the green baseplates with
: the tubes underneath. That would place the conversion date prior to 1975. I
: also have a 1970 US Samsonite Dealer Catalog, which still shows the old style
: 10x20 plates. So sometime between 1971-74 that conversion took place. I'm not
: really sure right now. I'll have to go home tonight and check some of my old
: US & German catalogs from the early 1970's.
: The 10x20 plate has a long history in Lego. It actually had 3 different (or
: more?) variations.
I can place it more exactly, at least in the US. When Lego took over
in 1973, the tubes appeared. I suspect they appeared earlier in the rest
of the world, but in 11972, Samsonite was not about to build any new molds,
so the last Samsonite sets were tubeless, and I have a 1973 universal
set in which I first saw the tubes.
-Bill
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| Hey thanks Bill! That makes perfect sense to me. I always think of 1972-73 as a milestone in LEGO History. They changed the LEGO logo, TLG bought back the lisencing from Samsonite (KKK came to the USA to help open TLG USA), the first of the Lego (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 10x20 green baseplates
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| Hmmm, Let's see, I have sets 148 (Central Train Station) and 149 (Shell Refinery). They both came out in 1975, and both have the green baseplates with the tubes underneath. That would place the conversion date prior to 1975. I also have a 1970 US (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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