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Re: The History Of LEGO Sloped Bricks - Part 1
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Fri, 10 Sep 1999 18:44:46 GMT
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Not quite sure what period you were talking about there - though you
hint at early 70s.

They had red apex bricks by the early 1970s didn't they?

http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=350-1
(from 1971)

http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=349
(from 1971), and

http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=540-3
(from 1973)

(all in shallow slope)

For medium slope, I'm there was a house
with a big 1x6x3 window at the front, and some
black and white tiles arranged in a criss-cross pattern
from the early 1970s (one of my favourite sets).
I'm pretty sure that had red apex medium slope bricks,
but I haven't been able to find it on the lugnet database.
Anyone?

Simon
http://www.SimonRobinson.com


In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> What I find curious about the slopes is that we had plenty of red slopes
> (they may have all been 2x2, I don't remember), but we never had any
> apex or other special slopes (I remember later in life noting that "gee,
> they finaly got around to adding special slopes to make more realistic
> roofs"). I wonder what set(s) our slopes came from? I wonder if the
> German friends who gave us our first LEGO from what they brought to the
> U.S. when they stayed for a year kept all the special slopes? I know we
> only had a handfull of non-general sets (all I can remember is a train
> and a fire engine), so I doubt we got slopes from them. I don't know if
> we had any parts packs (it's possible we came back from our Europe trip
> in '72 with some).
> 
> It's a real shame our LEGO collection is long gone. I'm real curious as
> to what we actually had. I suspect we may have only had a tiny bit of
> Samsonite LEGO, with most of our LEGO coming from Germany (the sets we
> purchased in '72 were probably purchased in Germany).
> 
> --
> Frank Filz
> 
> -----------------------------
> Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com
> Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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(...) Mid '60s to early '70s. (...) According to Garry's history, yes, that's the puzzlement I have, why had I never seen them til the '80s? (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

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What I find curious about the slopes is that we had plenty of red slopes (they may have all been 2x2, I don't remember), but we never had any apex or other special slopes (I remember later in life noting that "gee, they finaly got around to adding (...) (27 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

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