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Re: Online LEGO users design their own sets
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:05:30 GMT
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In lugnet.lego.direct, Gary Istok writes:
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So unless you have a decent quantity of classic doors/windows, you will not >be able to build them.  (I am assuming that TLC will not reintroduce classic >windows as part of bulk orders).  And then there are the (long out of >production) specialty parts of the '50s-'70s era such as the old flat trees, >old road signs, Esso Sign/Pumps, 4x8 right and left curved white plates >without the missing notch of plastic on the curve), LEGO street lights.

I'm still glad, because I still own some of these parts, though severly worn
out. After 15 years of intensive use those old bricks had lost all their
"clinging"-power, fortunately current bricks are of better quality.
Also I remember, since there still was no brick seperator in those days, we
kids often resorted to a dental separation procedure. I'm sure this acounts
for the rarety of mint sets from this period. I've never stopped paying with
Lego, I've skipped the famous "Dark Ages" completely.

Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.



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  Re: Online LEGO users design their own sets
 
(...) Like I stated earlier, the problem for old LEGO set instructions for sets from 1955 to 1972 is that 1) Town was alone in the LEGO System world until Train came out in 1966, and others in the 1970's and 2) classic windows came in 9 window (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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